Under the cover of darkness on the night of March 27, 2017, housing activists snuck past the guards of two government-owned buildings in central Cape Town — a derelict hospital and an abandoned ...

While Cape Town is South Africa’s top tourist attraction, few of its 1.7 million annual foreign visitors venture beyond the iconic areas around Table Mountain to the Cape Flats, a mishmash of sandy, ...

In 1950, as part of the Group Areas Act, South Africa's apartheid government banished people of color to outlying areas, away from central business districts. The Cape Flats are one such area, ...

A New York Times reporter joined a group of cyclists on a route meant to break down Cape Town’s lingering racial and economic barriers. By John Eligon Photographs by Tommy Trenchard John Eligon rode a ...

When the apartheid government decided to evict people it called Coloured from Cape Town’s inner city, it set off a chain reaction that now requires military intervention. Given the framework within ...

A woman has sparked debate by calling Cape Town's new affordable housing plan a continuation of apartheid The housing development allows up to 12 rental units per plot, but concentrates these ...