Cape Town cannot continue to celebrate itself as “the best-run city” while denying thousands of our own backyard families the most basic and lawful service, electricity that is safe, individually metered, and compliant with our own policies.
Although the 153 Palestinians who arrived in South Africa last week were not forced aboard the mystery aircraft at gunpoint, practically speaking, they were forcibly removed by the annihilation of infrastructure in Gaza, rendering it unfit for human habitation.
Every morning, women wake up and choose to keep going, to keep moving through what was done to them. And every morning, this country confronts them with a reminder of just how unsafe they are.
While US President Donald Trump clearly doesn’t, most dollar millionaires in most G20 nations, including in South Africa and the US, back the principle of a special tax on their wealth as a lever to address unsustainable inequality.
It is with profound outrage and sorrow that we note the tragic death of a young man in a devastating fire that destroyed 32 homes and left 52 people homeless in the Siyangena informal settlement in Philippi.
The recent case of a female Metro Police officer forced to hitchhike home in full uniform, in the middle of the night, while experiencing a heavy menstrual cycle and without her service firearm, is not only a policy failure; it is a disgrace.
The Western Cape Government must explain its irrational purchase of a piece of land in the Table View area for R64.4 million, when it paid just R9 million for a larger, more developable piece of land right next door.
Today, I joined the picket at the Department of Trade, Industry, and Competition to lobby for increased oversight and regulation of the online gambling industry.
The City of Cape Town’s decision to honour Tony Leon calls into question the values guiding this administration.
The only reason Western Cape Premier Alan Winde had for withholding the report that he requested from the Western Cape Police Ombudsman was that it exposed how absolutely toothless the whole exercise was.