The Airbnb’fication of Cape Town
AirBnb is making the idea of a liveable, walkable city unattainable, while deepening inequality and decimating local industries.
AirBnb is making the idea of a liveable, walkable city unattainable, while deepening inequality and decimating local industries.
The predatory tech giant is at the center of a heritage site land grab, pitting indigenous and environmental activists against city authorities.
Asher Gamedze on his new single ‘Wynter Time,' and the struggle of oppressed peoples against dispossession, exploitation and alienation.
The film 'No Place But Here' uses VR or 360 media to immerse a viewer inside a housing occupation in Cape Town. In the process, it wants to challenge gentrification and the capitalist logic of home ownership.
The campaign to separate South Africa's Western Cape from the rest of the country is not only a symptom of white privilege, but also of the myth that the province is better run.
The historian Premesh Lalu’s film about an apartheid-era cinema on the Cape Flats also offers a glimpse of a future beyond racism for South Africa.
The University of Edinburgh will award an honorary doctorate to Joe Schaffers, a working-class educator from Cape Town, South Africa. It will be a new benchmark for this tradition.
The writer, from Cape Town, reflects on the life of her working class father, who like her friends' fathers worked tough jobs for low pay and hid his vulnerabilities.
South Africans fight for “adequate housing,” freedom from eviction, and a government that will progressively realize both of these goals.
Amy Jephta and Ephraim Gordon have written and directed a noir TV series that evokes nostalgia and the tension and violence of Cape Town’s nightlife.
On this month’s AIAC Radio we head to Cape Town to understand how this creole city's musical culture resisted containment throughout history. Listen on Worldwide FM and follow us on Mixcloud.
Dennis Brutus described Arthur Nortje as “perhaps the best South African poet of our time.”
Young Africans are breathing life into Tupac’s memory, channeling his image and his music to be heard and seen in social spaces where they feel neither audible nor visible.
How do we deal with the unfinished business of the past? Cape Town has a surprisingly poetic answer.
What does it mean when a community takes justice into its own hands? Revisiting the case of People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD) in Cape Town.
Police violence, racism and the connections between Minneapolis in the United States and Cape Town, South Africa.
Breaking with the usual media conversation about the carnival that recalls Cape Town’s slave past.
Rapper YoungstaCPT's headspace is shaped by Cape Town’s history.
Reporting on protests in poor communities where the mainstream media lacks, social media picks up the slack. This isn't always a good thing.
The Tafelberg site in Sea Point, a rich suburb of Cape Town, has come to symbolize