There have been countless attempts to define the world’s second-biggest and second-most-populous continent, often and notoriously from outside.
An inner-city partnership has created a safe and clean environment that is paying big dividends.
Cape Town has launched tourism into the twittersphere. Tourism chief executive Mariette du Toit-Helmbold talks social networking and #LoveCapeTown.
Cape Town councillor Andile Lili says that South Africa’s poor have been failed by officials across the board.
More than 38000 people walked through the doors of last year’s Design Indaba expo, resulting in a GDP contribution of R261-million.
Cape Town’s financial boss tells Heather Formby why it did not get a clean audit from the auditor general.
Authors of nonfiction books on assisted suicide risk imprisonment, especially if the book is published in New Zealand, writes Barbara Erasmus.
On the corner of Kuyper Street and Service Road, finds the point where Zimbabwe meets Cape Town.
The City of Cape Town has spent nearly R1-million helping victims of the recent floods on the Cape Peninsula with blankets, meals and baby packs.
The city of Cape Town has stepped up relief efforts to help households affected by floods over the weekend, says a disaster management spokesperson.
Riding a bicycle as a simpler, more efficient way to travel? Not in Cape Town, writes Anthea Buys.
Crew still aboard a 50m Japanese fishing trawler that has run aground in Clifton are at risk as fog and rising tides hamper rescue operations.
A fatal shark attack at Kogel Bay has conservationists up in arms over what they call risky research practices involving great white sharks.
Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille on Wednesday tabled a budget of about R29-billion for the city.
Malema has remained hostile towards the ANC’s leadership, saying that having respect for one’s elders should not dictate policy.
Widespread allegations of manipulated crime statistics have risen in Paarl but the police officers responsible will probably get away with it.
Eateries are much more than just places to eat. They offer tradition as well, and with that, comes comfortability.
Protesters will be taking to the the streets of Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban tomorrow. Here’s where they’ll be going.
The MEC of Public Works in Cape Town loves Chapman’s Peak, but erecting a building on it must go ahead regardless, he says.
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/ 22 February 2012
Although no injuries were reported, about 70 people have been left homeless following four separate fires across Cape Town on Tuesday.
South Africans can expect the introduction of laws restricting fatty acids and salt content in food, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said.
In <em>Safe House</em> Ryan Reynolds plays a low-level CIA operative stationed in Cape Town.
Analysts are divided over whether social protest will fare better with help from the middle class.
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/ 1 February 2012
Four men were jailed for 18 years on Wednesday for stabbing and stoning 19-year-old lesbian Zoliswa Nkonyana to death in 2006.
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/ 30 December 2011
The <i>M&G</i> rounds up the top cheap(ish) thrills to be had in Jo’burg, Cape Town & Durban as the festive season winds down.
Shrien Dewani must wait until 2012 to learn the outcome of his court battle against extradition to South Africa over his wife Anni’s murder.
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/ 25 November 2011
After a spate of attacks on hikers, a volunteer group is considering taking SANParks Table Mountain National Park to court.
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/ 17 November 2011
English rugby club Saracens will no longer play in Cape Town after conflict arose between the city and the Western Province Rugby Club.
Designers must ensure that Cape Town’s 2014 award is not hijacked by business and tourism interests, says a member of the bid committee
Cape Town has been named World Design Capital for 2014, at the International Design Congress in Taipei, but there are dissenting voices back home.
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/ 26 October 2011
Cape Town has trumped Bilbao and Dublin to be named Design Capital 2014 by the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design.