Thursday, 21 January 2021
Shaun Swingler is an award-winning filmmaker and photojournalist based in Cape Town. He focuses on social issues in southern Africa and abroad.
Police Minister Bheki Cele made good on his week-old promise to send the SANDF to the Cape Flats to secure the area while the police searched and raided in an attempt to clamp down on gang violence.
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.