One of the apartheid era's main laws was the Bantu Education Act of 1953, which aimed to prevent black children from reaching ...

Habitat is a meeting point for contrasting perspectives that honour the township as a layered, living space.

"What solutions is the minister bringing?" Residents unimpressed by promised visit by Social Development Minister Disgruntled residents took over a meeting at the South African Social Security Agency ...

Khayelitsha barber shop shooting that claimed the lives of three children has been killed shortly after a court appearance, raising questions about justice and safety in the community.

Nosimbo Gqezu, standing in shin-deep water, said when her shack flooded, she grabbed whatever belongings she could carry and ...

Increased police visibility in Khayelitsha has prompted extortionists to agree not to charge foreign-owned spaza shops increased protection fees, according to some shop owners.

A cold front that made landfall earlier continues to batter the metropolitan municipality with flooding reported in several ...

The pageant, called Miss Lesbian, was organized by Free Gender, a lesbian rights organization founded in 2008 by community activist Funeka Soldaat and based in Khayelitsha.. That year's edition of ...

Khayelitsha’s intrepid nightlife entrepreneurs are also forced to keep an eye on crime. Through last September, Western Cape Province recorded 571 mass shootings over a three-year period, ...

Khayelitsha, the second-biggest township in South Africa, has only three police stations, with one police officer for every 628 residents. Living in Khayelitsha is murder, say residents of the ...

Torrential rains have engulfed Cape Town in a series of catastrophic floods, with the Khayelitsha township bearing the brunt ...

Several parts of Cape Town are bracing for hours-long water outages this week as the City’s Water and Sanitation Directorate ...