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Cape Town ratepayers and civic groups say rising property valuations, municipal charges and housing costs are worsening affordability.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Service delivery v rates: Inside Cape Town’s growing affordability crisis

Cape Town’s affordability debate is intensifying as residents face rising rates, tariffs and property valuations.

  • Ntsikelelo Qoyo
6 min read
Environmental activists calling on the government to “Cancel Coal” during protests a few years back.
ENVIRONMENT

“People are the economy”: what Tafelberg, Shell and coal are really about

When South Africa says it wants growth, what exactly are we counting as growth, and whose lives are included in the calculation?

  • Vivian Warby
8 min read