After Every Collapse, We Regulate the Wrong People
South Africa’s construction regulations only ever seem to move after the rubble is cleared. But look closely at what each revision actually does, and a pattern emerges: the more people…
Category: Opinion
The Greatest Threat to the Kaapse Klopse Has Never Been Its History—It Has Been the Institutions That Keep Rewriting It
Opinion Written by Heinrich Muller I recently stumbled upon a post on facebook published by a Henri Fortuin about the “Cape Coons” he grew up with and while reading through…
Written in Sand, Saved in the Cloud: The Cape’s History in the Digital Age
An Opinion Piece by Driko Maritz When Jan van Riebeeck’s ships dropped anchor in Table Bay in 1652, the Cape had already been inhabited, traversed, and known for tens of…