How Cape Town’s “pro-poor” government is failing its people. . The City of Cape Town tells us, over and over, that it is “pro ...

2. Failure in Urban Planning Despite Cape Town’s clear spatial inequality, the City continues to sideline informal settlements in its urban development plans. There is no long-term vision to ...

CAPE TOWN - Residents of several informal settlements in Cape Town are struggling to find alternative accommodation as they rebuild their homes. READ: Cape Town residents left to the street ...

This study focuses on the urban spatial practices of refugee markets in Cape Town, South Africa, from 1990-present. It argues that mixed-use refugee markets are central sites for informal trade, ...

CAPE TOWN - The City of Cape Town said it attended to 11 disastrous fires at several informal settlements over two weeks. It said the Joe Slovo informal settlement in Langa experienced the most ...

Cape Town - By December 20 Cape Town had recorded the highest number of informal settlement fires in the Western Cape in 2021, as Fire Rescue Services responded to more than 2 200 fires in ...

CAPE TOWN - Alcohol may be the main cause of some of the fires that left several informal settlements in Cape Town devastated. Over the last two weeks, Cape Town firefighters had contend with 11 ...

“Cities are becoming sick,” he said. He called on citizens to “become more active in ensuring that we do not allow pollution to engulf us”. “Unfortunately, in South Africa it always takes a crisis to ...