CONSTITUTIONAL BREACH: State advocate vs Cape City planning tribunal: a battle for her kids’s rights

CONSTITUTIONAL BREACH: State advocate vs Cape City planning tribunal: a battle for her kids’s rights

In mid-June 2026, when Every day Maverick was publishing its three-part investigation into Cape City’s planning constructions, we had been approached by Thersia du Toit-Smit, a senior state advocate on the NPA. Apart from noting that our reporting uncovered a severe breach within the municipal council’s defences, she was contacting us in her non-public capability…

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CLEAN BREAK (PART 1): Members for all times — The seize of Cape City’s planning tribunal

CLEAN BREAK (PART 1): Members for all times — The seize of Cape City’s planning tribunal

On this first instalment of a three-part investigative collection that reveals a number of the lesser-known details about Cape City’s improvement house, Day by day Maverick experiences on the political seize of the municipal planning tribunal, the official physique that handles billions of rands per 12 months in land-use purposes. In response to the nationwide…

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