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Matthew Hirsch

Cape Town
As seen in: MSN South Africa, Investing.com, Fin24, News24, AllAfrica, Bizcommunity, The Lead (Podcast), Daily Maverick, Mail & Guardian, Australian Gourmet Traveller and
Freelance journalist based in Cape Town. Sports fanatic and music devotee.
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Cape Town Tourism strikes Gold, 3 times over

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By James Byrne, Robin Fredericks, Matthew Hirsch
| Bizcommunity
2 days7 days30 daysBy Industry Show more Advertise your job vacancies Subscribe to daily business and company news across 19 industries In a dazzling display of creative and marketing excellence, Cape Town Tourism (CTT) has won not one, not two, but three Gold Awards at the prestigious International Tourism Film Festival Africa (ITFFA).
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The Cape Town shelter where you won’t be turned away if you’re drunk

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By Matthew Hirsch
| GroundUp
Twelve beds have been set aside in Cape Town’s Culemborg Safe Space for people who arrive intoxicated. They are given blankets and a meal. Photos: Matthew Hirsch Bonelwa Xaka lived on the streets of Cape Town for more than five years. Now she is a peer support specialist in a “Sober Space” pilot project in Cape Town, set up to offer a place to homeless people who would be turned away from other shelters because they are drunk.
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South Africa: 970 Affordable Homes to Be Built At Salt River Market By August 2028

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By Matthew Hirsch
| AllAfrica
Land formerly owned by City of Cape Town handed to Communicare on Monday More than a decade since the City of Cape Town first earmarked the Salt River Market for social housing, it has finally been handed over to the developer, Communicare. Communicare will contribute R40-million of its own funds and expects to receive a once-off subsidy of about R127-million from the Social Housing Regulatory Authority to build 300 social housing units.
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