As Cape Town plans security measures along N2 highway, shack dwellers say the project will separate the poor from rich.


Gershwin Wanneburg is a journalist based in Cape Town, South Africa, with over 20 years of experience working for national and international organisat... ions, including Reuters news agency and the African Development Bank.
As Cape Town plans security measures along N2 highway, shack dwellers say the project will separate the poor from rich.

Critics wary of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s move to send military to tackle crime, drugs and gangs in three provinces.

An activist-turned-historian takes tourists through South Africa’s painful colonial history, which still echoes today.

No perpetrators have been brought to justice after 1977 death-in-detention of famed anti-apartheid leader, Steve Biko.

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Government under pressure as provincial police commissioner claims country’s police chief colluded with criminal gangs.

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