An exceptionally small Cape Town apartment has gone viral on social media. Take a look inside - and why locals are irate over ...

City plans municipal rules to tax short-term rentals at hotel-level rates Properties mainly used for short stays would face a 135% tax increase Cape Town had 26,484 Airbnb listings as of September ...

Cape Town is preparing to hit short-term rental properties with a sharp hike in municipal rates, a move that will significantly change how platforms like Airbnb and Booking.com operate in the city.

Cape Town is a symbolic place for the designer Thebe Magugu. When he was nine years old, he took his first trip by plane from Kimberley in South Africa’s North Cape province to discover the ...

Cape Town’s housing affordability crisis is real, painful and urgent. Rents are rising faster than incomes, households are under strain and too many people are being priced further from work, ...

New images show the incredible devastation caused after a 2.5-mile landslide hit a town in Sicily, forcing the evacuation of 1,500 people and leaving houses teetering on the edge of a cliff. Photos ...

Can a city truly thrive when the people who build, clean, and run it can no longer afford to live in it? In January 2026, this difficult question hangs over the Atlantic Seaboard as the Mother City ...

A Cape Town resident shared her personal struggles with securing affordable housing, revealing the emotional and urgent challenges she faced Her viral video sparked nationwide conversations about the ...

I’m writing this as a Capetonian as someone who lives here, raises family here, works here, and listens every day to what people are carrying. I read the Mayor’s argument against rent control. I read ...

Calls for rent control in Cape Town are rooted in a reasonable expectation that public representatives should prioritise affordability and wellbeing over market dogma. Yet Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis has ...

A Cape Town woman has been forced to move into the attic space of an apartment in a bid to save on rent. The city, a tourist hotspot, is known for its pricey rental properties, which many residents ...