Coalition rule in Cape Town was the first major step in the DA’s move into government. But the party is treading more carefully this time around.
Cape Town’s toilet saga will come under the spotlight again after Andile Lili moves into the metro council as a proportional representative.
A new species of cockroach, the world’s only known jumping cockroach, has been discovered in the middle of Cape Town’s Table Mountain National Park.
The release of the overall results for the Cape Town metro have been delayed after an IEC official failed to submit result slips for scanning.
Although Cope didn’t win any council outright, they were set to act as kingmaker in a number of municipalities where the ANC and DA were neck and neck
National transmission rates of perinatal HIV infection are falling but the past is still with us, writes <b>Martinique Stilwell</b>.
The DA believes it will win its first overall majority in the Cape Town metropolitan council, predicting "somewhere between 57% and 60%".
A 53-year old voter died of a heart attack while waiting in a queue to vote in Tafelsig on the Cape Flats on Wednesday afternoon.
On Friday April 15 1994, Nelson Mandela and FW de Klerk participated in the first debate of the new democratic South Africa.
Residents of Tafelsig in Mitchell’s Plain on the Cape Flats swore they would not be voting on Wednesday after a violent protest in the area.
The municipal election campaign is in the toilet, literally — the delivery of the most basic service of all has come to dominate the polls.
<b>Glynnis Underhill</b> introduces us to an angry Cape Town woman who risks life and limb to help victimised lesbians.
Despite the matter being the ANC’s major electioneering weapon against the DA, the City of CT has not yet moved to comply with a court judgement.
The ANC has promised to build houses for the poor in Constantia if it won the local government election in Cape Town.
Judgement was expected in the so-called open-toilet saga in Khayelitsha in the Cape High Court on Friday.
Patricia de Lille says the same rules apply to all when
it comes to hiring the Cape Town Stadium.
Cosatu’s May Day rally will be held at Athlone stadium instead of the Cape Town stadium, after a dispute over the cost of renting the World Cup venue.
Cosatu says the City of Cape Town doesn’t want the poor to visit its World Cup stadium, in a squabble over the cost of hiring it for a May Day rally.
George Ntshiliza produced a late surge to break the foreign stranglehold on the 56km Two Oceans ultra-marathon in Cape Town on Saturday.
The greatest challenge the city of Cape Town still faced was poverty, Democratic Alliance mayoral candidate Patricia de Lille said on Saturday.
Some desperate residents of Lavender Hill have welcomed the renewed presence of the controversial movement Pagad.
A Cape Flats school provides a haven in a community terrorised by gang warfare.
The threat of mass evictions has been lifted from residents of Cape Town’s Joe Slovo informal settlement.
Julia Meintjies Fine Art has launched its Threads of Africa project with an exhibition titled at the Gold of Africa Museum in Cape Town.
Disgruntled members of the ANC stormed the party’s provincial offices on Tuesday over selection of candidates in 16 wards.
Cape Town police confirmed on Tuesday morning that alleged underworld boss Cyril Beeka was gunned down in the city over the long weekend.
Top members of the ANC this week spent days listening to ANC groups who appealed against the processes of the Western Cape provincial conference.
The battle for control of Cape Town will be an even playing field if the ANC pits Cosatu leader Tony Ehrenreich against the DA’s Patricia de Lille.
The DA’s newly nominated candidate for mayor of Cape Town, Patricia De Lille, was not surprised when she heard Jimmy Manyi’s comments.
Cosatu’s Western Cape provincial secretary, Tony Ehrenreich believes the Democratic Alliance has reason to be concerned.
IFP MP Mario Oriani-Ambrosini took on the might of the Parliament on Wednesday in a bid to change the rules of the National Assembly.
Cosatu has forwarded the name of its Western Cape provincial secretary, Tony Ehrenreich, to the ANC as a candidate for mayor of Cape Town.