Saturday, 20 July 2019
Shaun Swingler is an award-winning filmmaker and photojournalist based in Cape Town. He focuses on social issues in southern Africa and abroad.
By installing battery-operated smoke detectors, an innovator in Khayelitsha is making homes safer for shack dwellers underserved by firefighters who battle with blocked access.
The thousands of gang-related deaths on the Cape Flats are as much a result of the state neglecting its basic duties to its citizens as gangsters’ bullets and blades.
City notices to rent-paying residents living at the former circus school in Observatory have escalated an already contentious situation amid Cape Town’s spiralling housing crisis.
The third of a three-part series on the past, present and uncertain future of Blikkiesdorp, a fissured Cape Town community in the embattled final throes of its lifespan.
The second of a three-part series on the past, present and uncertain future of Blikkiesdorp, a fissured Cape Town community in the embattled final throes of its lifespan.
The first of a three-part series on the past, present and uncertain future of Blikkiesdorp, a fissured Cape Town community in the embattled final throes of its lifespan.
‘Poacher: Confessions from the Abalone Underworld’ offers an unprecedented look into the illicit, and perilous, trade in one of the most sought after substances on the planet.