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The #BlackLivesMatter movement, as told by and through social media. (Reuters)
ANDRIES TATANE

Black Lives Matter? Which black lives?

In South Africa, police brutality and violence affect black, working- class lives in particular. We must dismantle this systemic oppression

  • Adam Haupt
8 min read
The City of Cape Town’s COVID-19 lockdown encampment in Strandfontein for up to 4 000 homeless people from around the greater city area. (David Harrison/M&G)
CAPE TOWN

The Strandfontein shelter touches a societal and political nerve

What was the City of Cape Town thinking when it decided to round up homeless people and put them in a camp?

  • Jonty Cogger
9 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
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)
APARTHEID

Blindness: How the Strandfontein camp was set up to fail

The facility in Cape Town was about quarantining the most vulnerable — the homeless — rather than preventing Covid-19

  • Jared Sacks
9 min read
This making sense of, or giving meaning to our new reality is critical, given the knowns and unknowns that can make our understanding of the world unintelligible. (David Harrison/M&G)
ANC

Dan Plato: Cape Town is caring for the homeless despite rampant political campaigning

We have honoured President Cyril Ramaphosa’s request to put aside politicking and wish opposition parties would do the same

  • Dan Plato
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
Covid-19 homeless site has been criticised for being inadequate to shelter the most vulnerable from the coronavirus storm, while drug addicts say they’re being left to suffer due to inadequate medical attention. (David Harrison/M&G)
CAPE TOWN

Inside Strandfontein: Cape Town’s Covid-19 homeless site

The City’s Covid-19 homeless site has been criticised for being inadequate to shelter the most vulnerable from the Coronavirus storm, while drug addicts say they’re being left to…

  • Lester Kiewit
7 min read