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Breathing space: In Woodstock, properties are small and few homeowners have gardens, a fact an urban park could alleviate. (David Harrison)
CITY OF CAPE TOWN

Conserve historic Castle bowling green in Woodstock — study

There’s enough space at the old hospital site for the social housing units meant for a park in densely populated Woodstock

  • Eunice Masson
5 min read
The Rex Trueform factory and building in Salt River, Cape Town. (Photo: David Harrison)
ARCHITECTURE

Picking up threads from the cutting room floor

Lesiba Mabitsela’s multidisciplinary project interrogates the influence of modernity through examining the intersections between fashion and architecture

  • Nkgopoleng Moloi
10 min read
CITY OF CAPE TOWN

Twin buildings still echo the changes in Salt River

The Rex Trueform textile company employed generations of coloured people and its sale marks the end of an era that defined the area

  • Raeesa Pather
15 min read
(Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
CAPE TOWN

City of Cape Town: We can’t afford to develop emergency housing in the inner city

The Municipality argues that residents facing homelessness will have to travel some 30km for emergency housing.

  • Raeesa Pather
4 min read
For much of his life
CAPE HOUSING PROJECTS

Cape Town denies its people a place they call their home

If they were unemployed and had no spending power, he reasoned, why did they want to be near schools and transport routes?

  • Raeesa Pather
14 min read
Contradictions: Bromwell Street is a modest remnant of the rapidly gentrifying Salt River.
BLIKKIESDORP

Shack dreams, shackled lives: Displaced poor pine for home

What happens after the sheriff has come knocking?

  • Raeesa Pather
11 min read
BEER

The Who’s Brew of SA beer

South Africans are acquiring a taste for ‘craft’ ale, and the Jo’burg festival of beer will have something to tap into every palate.

  • Niren Tolsi
5 min read