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Mother City directors Miki Redelinghuys and Pearlie Joubert
ACCOUNTABILITY

Mother City: A powerful documentary exposing Cape Town’s racial and economic inequality

Six years in the making, the pair’s film explores racial and economic inequality in Cape Town

  • Charles Leonard
7 min read
they and other homeless people have been housed since the lockdown started. (Photos: Rogan Ward)
BEACHFRONT

Hope grows on Durban beachfront

Ten homeless men who turned a vacant lot into an organic vegetable garden are now reaping the rewards of their toil

  • Paddy Harper
6 min read
This photo, taken in Mahikeng, is part of Kamogelo Lebotse’s Documenting Lockdown series.
BEARING WITNESS

Kamogelo Lebotse: The Portfolio

Photographer Kamogelo Lebotse has been documenting the effects of the national lockdown on the people of Mahikeng

  • Kamogelo Lebotse
3 min read
ramped: There are about 6 000 shacks on 10 hectares in Kennedy Road in Pinetown. (Thembinkosi Dwayisa/Sunday Times/ Gallo Images)
APARTHEID

Policy exists, but shacklands spring up

The political will is there, but proper implementation remains an obstacle to improving people’s lot

  • Sijekula Mbanga
7 min read
The Covid-19 Strandfontein facility. (David Harrison/M&G)
BRONWYN PITHEY

The controversial Strandfontein shelter shows the importance of monitoring womxn’s rights during a crisis

Our government’s Covid-19 response and regulations must be subject to stringent monitoring to ensure womxn’s safety and security. This is why the Women’s Legal Centre will be an…

  • Women’s Legal Centre
7 min read
The immediate danger of becoming homeless is more urgent than worrying about contracting the coronavirus.
CORONAVIRUS

Online campaign advocates for tenants’ rights during the lockdown

Rent Strike South Africa says working-class families are struggling to keep up with paying rent during the lockdown. And, although there is a moratorium on evictions, it fears…

  • Lester Kiewit
5 min read
City of Cape Town Mayor Dan Plato along with other officials held a media briefing at their Covid-19 lockdown facility in Strandfontein followed by a tour of the large marquee tents. The media presence incited many of the people in the tents that was quickly stopped after media was urged to move along. The City of Cape Town’s Covid-19 lockdown encampment in Strandfontein for up to 4000 homeless people from around the greater city area. (David Harrison/M&G)
CHRIS NISSEN

Strandfontein homeless site more a prison than a place of safety — Human rights report

Independent reports slam Cape Town’s Covid-19 homeless site, the city says things have improved since independent monitors visited the site

  • Lester Kiewit
6 min read