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A married couple, Nazeem and Nadia Nelson, who bought a house in Kensington in November 2016, have won a decision to evict their nine relatives, who have been unlawfully occupying the house for the past five years.

The Western Province Rugby Union (WPRU) has suspended four more executive members, in another development that has cast one of South Africa’s leading rugby provinces in a dark light.

Steve Wyant releases a brown trout he caught Sunday afternoon in the Yampa River just below Stagecoach Reservoir. (Photo by Dylan Anderson) Keith Hale thinks fishing in the Yampa Valley has started off different this year. Normally, the river is higher as the snow rapidly melts, making it cloudy and difficult to fish. “It is usually chocolate milk out here,” said Andy Best, a fishing guide at Steamboat Flyfisher. Initially, as the snow in the valley melts, the water gets cloudy, but that wa...

The Western Cape government said it was contemplating the way forward after the Western Cape High Court dismissed its bid to appeal against an historic August 2020 decision on the Tafelberg site, which activists want for inner city social housing.

Despite their stated commitment to spatial redress, both the Western Cape provincial government and the City of Cape Town were back in court on Friday, 12 March, arguing for leave to appeal “the Tafelberg judgment” – a high court ruling that has been celebrated by housing activists for its potential to redress the shameful and divisive legacy of spatial apartheid in Cape Town. Their arguments raise serious concerns about the state’s understanding of how to use well-located land to begin...

Judgment has been reserved in the case where Reclaim the City (RTC) and Ndifuna Ukwazi (NU) returned to the Western Cape High Court to argue against the the Province and the City’s applications to appeal against the ’Tafelberg judgment before the Supreme Court of Appeal. Photographer: Armand Hough/African News Agency(ANA) Judgment reserved in Tafelberg appeal hearing Share Cape Town - A high court judge has said the provincial government is split on the Tafelberg issue between a facti...

Picture: Daneel Knoetze Judges Patrick Gamble and Monde Samela presided over the Tafelberg case virtually and sat for several hours listening to arguments. The Western Cape government took the courts decision on appeal last year on the basis that the judgment amounted to "judicial overreach". Activists have been challenging the provincial governments decision to sell the Tafelberg site to the Phyllis Jowell Jewish Day School for R135 million seven years ago. The land had previously been earma...