Providing well-located affordable housing in our cities and towns is one of the most vexing questions facing urban policy makers and housing departments. Now, a new initiative aims to provide a better understanding of the dynamics that shape low-income and afforable land and housing markets in South Africa.
The Affordable Land and …
Creative Cape Town is hosting a design networking event on Tuesday 16 November. You’re invited to come listen to Zahira Asmal talk about her Designing South Africa project that captures and documents the legacy of the World Cup in terms of design aesthetics. Cape Town Tourism’s Mariette Du Toit Helmbold speaks about …
The South African Cabinet announced rather strangely yesterday that the 2011 UN Climate Change Conference (aka the 17th Conference of the Parties for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change or COP17) will take place in the “KwaZulu-Natal province”. I assume by this it is meant that it will take place in eThekwini/ …
The well-known Huguenot Monument in Franschhoek commemorates the arrival of approximately 270 French Huguenots in the Cape circa 1687-89. They were fleeing religious persecution in France following the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685.
The monument incorporates a figure of a woman with a bible in her right hand …
Many of my posts this year have tended to focus on the impact of the 2010 Football World Cup in Cape Town. Well, it was considerable. But now that the big event has come and gone, I thought that it would be nice to broaden my horizons once again and …
The great Baudelairean tradition of strolling the streets to discover the city is well captured by Jacob Dlamini in a recent article on walking in Johannesburg (yes, apparently it is possible – see below). He reminds us that one of the consequences of suburban life is the diminution of the rights of pedestrians in favour of cars. …
My colleague, Ibrahim Seedat, Director of Public Transport Strategy at the South African Department of Transport, drew my attention to this great interview with former Bogotá mayor Enrique Peñalosa in Yes! Magazine.
In Ibrahim’s words, “Even though you have heard it all before, it is always a refreshing option to read Penalosa …
I spent an enjoyable two hours yesterday walking the streets of the city and talking about the history of Cape Town and South Africa with Lucie Pagé, an award-winning French-Canadian writer and journalist. Impatient with many travel guides to South Africa that still persist in starting with “In 1652, Jan …
Cape Town is one of three South African cities bidding to host the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP17) towards the end of 2011. The fact that the event will take place in South Africa so soon after the 2010 World Cup is a major boost for our country.…
For many years, an old LP recording of a speech by Robert Kennedy in Cape Town in 1966 lay around our family home. I never realised its significance until I saw RFK in the Land of Apartheid – A Ripple of Hope at the opening night of the Encounters International …
One of the unexpected treats of the 2010 World Cup was having something other than political wrangling to read about on the front pages of our newspapers every day. For a whole month.
No disrespect intended, but sometimes we in South Africa get a little obsessed with what politicians are saying and doing. I …
Cape Town is already a popular global and local events city – think Design Indaba, Cycle Tour, Jazz Festival, CT Carnival, World Economic Forum, Mining Indaba, etc - and we have strengthened our reputation by helping to host a successful Football World Cup. We need now to be planning how to bid for more sporting and cultural events in …
Perverse outcomes? New bicycle lanes in Cape Town CBD add space for cars
Who is championing Cape Town’s Integrated Rapid Transport system?
Why the Cape Town airport shuttle isn’t working
Cape Town’s Bid to host 2011 UN Climate Change Conference
For sure, freeways?
Wooden cobbles recently discovered in Adderley Street
Integrated Rapid Transport in Cape Town – no other alternative
Cape Town Station Square – unburied treasure
Cape Town shows the world how to street party
Stop the Secrecy Bill: Pictures from Right2Know march, Cape Town, 17 September
Looking for Africa
The ABC of the EDA in Cape Town and the Western Cape
Who will lead the economic inclusion agenda when working class leaders abandon that role through ill-disciplined actions?
Going up: Cape Town’s tallest building since 1993 represents more than a property development
Paradise Road: An inspiring story about Zimbabweans in Cape Town
Daniel: Looking at the serious traffic congestion every mo...
Faadilah Gierdien: 17 years into the new dispensation, calls for this...
George: I commute regularly from the Southern Suburbs into...
John L Bradfield: Great article, Andrew. Thanks for sharing.
The ...
Rudolf Rieger: It goes without saying that this a very exiting pr...
tahlia govender: truly capturing the beauty of this country, when s...
Christo Fabricius: Knowledge, education and skills development should...
Etienne du Plessis: Hi Andrew,
I conduct a photo stream on Old Cape...
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