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The City of Cape Town is proceeding with its land release on the historic Castle bowling green in Woodstock, despite a decision by the Western Cape Heritage council to endorse a heritage impact assessment recommending the land be preserved as urban green space.

City engages lawyers in dispute with Woodstock civic group

The Woodstock Residents’ Association received a lawyer’s letter after it questioned the City of Cape Town’s submissions ahead of an appeal process next week

The City of Cape Town is proceeding with its land release on the historic Castle bowling green in Woodstock, despite a decision by the Western Cape Heritage council to endorse a heritage impact assessment recommending the land be preserved as urban green space.

Cape Town’s plan to appeal Woodstock land use resolution ‘short-sighted’

The city council wants to overturn the heritage authority’s resolution to conserve green space

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

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

Controversy: The city council wants to put a social housing development on the site of an abandoned hospital in Woodstock, Cape Town, Photos: David Harrison

City clings to Woodstock report that might alter housing plan

A social impact assessment recommends a bowling green in the Cape Town suburb be made into a community park, not used for social housing — and residents agree

The City of Cape Town is proceeding with its land release on the historic Castle bowling green in Woodstock, despite a decision by the Western Cape Heritage council to endorse a heritage impact assessment recommending the land be preserved as urban green space.

For Cape Town – with love and squalor

Political rhetoric can’t plaster over the city’s divides and rewrite its haunted past

Freestyle pantsula dancers in Soweto, Johannesburg, 2016. (Photo: Chris Saunders)

Why place matters in celebrating Jo’burg’s club history

The history of clubbing in Jo’burg is less about physical space and fading memories, but about the sheer, frightful necessity of dancing

The deadlock at the Nelson Mandela Bay metro municipality, with damaging consequences for municipal performance, reaffirms the urgency for the government to act on its own proposal.

Court must declare Cape Town’s ‘inhuman’ demolitions, evictions illegal, says law centre

The city argues that it is not carrying out evictions, but is acting against land invasions

Pots filled with soup outside Drifters Brewery on Woodstock main road. Cape Town brewing companies Woodstock Brewery and Drifters Brewery have begun to use their brewing equipment to start a soup making initiative to assist in feeding vulnerable communities around Cape Town during the Covid-19 lockdown. (David Harrison/M&G)

Making soup is easier than beer, my brew

The Woodstock Brewery, the Drifter Brewing Company and Stellenbosch Breweries are unable to make beer under lockdown regulations. So they’re making soup for food relief instead.

Mythic quest: Dylan Lewis explores relationships and a sense of self in his sculpture exhibition ‘Chthonios’. (Stella Oliver)

The Weekend Guide

For good vibes and an arts fix, don’t miss this

Songs such as “Wild Time” conjure up images of industrialisation and nature juxtaposed with one another. (Michael Zagaris/Getty Images)

In today’s America plagued by shootings, Woodstock 2.0 unlikely

Major events in America now are not complete without metal detectors ⁠— and the ever-growing paranoia that a gunman could be in the crowd.

Leslie van Rooyen, ran drugs and guns for the Hard Livings gang in Manenberg, getting protection in return. But the violence got to her and she swapped her miniskirt for men’s attire and started an NGO, Youth 4 Change. (David Harrison/M&G)

Queers and the allure of gangs

People ostracised by society often have to make alliances with other outcasts in order to survive

Singer M.I.A. performs during the World Premiere of the smart forjeremy Showcar

M.I.A tackles gentrification amid Woodstock concert controversy

M.I.A is known for her anti-capitalist stance. So the choice to perform at a symbol of gentrification in Woodstock raised speculation among her fans.

I’m not a pilchard, I won’t live in a tin’

Residents facing eviction from their Woodstock homes “have no right or entitlement” to be accommodated at a location of their choice

Bromwell Street resident Jienen Fleurs addresses protesters at The Old Biscuit Mill on Saturday morning.

Judge questions City’s plan to send Woodstock families to Wolwerivier

Residents of Bromwell Street in Woodstock continue to be entangled in a legal tussle with the City of Cape Town over looming evictions to Wolwerivier

At the End of August 1

Spaces are not neutral to the art they show

Dorothee Kreutzfeldt’s exhibition shows art and galleries can be part of the urban landscape

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Developer behind Bromwell Street evictions believes he is creating opportunities

Jacques van Embden says the only way to make Cape Town more inclusive is by building a new development in Woodstock.

Food club Third Culture Experiment attended the festival in year one

​Third Culture Experiment’s tripe and ginger beer debuts at SA’s street food festival

Murphy’s law struck when, in year three of the street food fest, Nobhongo Gxolo upped the ante and set up a stall.

Cape Town, use prime municipal land in the heart of the city to house the poor

Municipal property in the city should not be sold but used to build affordable housing

Evictions in Woodstock and the resistance against apartheid spatial planning

People in the community are still waiting for permanent housing as the settlement grows in size and helplessness.

Open letter to Woodstock: Please think twice about evicting 23 families

We are reaching out to you so that we may find a resolution which will satisfy both your rights as property owners and our needs as families.