Cape Town’s edgy 15 on Orange hotel is a design dream, but it’s not the kind of place you’d take your mom for tea.
South Africa’s changing cities give us clues about what groups need (and what they don’t) to have a happy existence.
New restaurants are popping up all over the dilapidated Cape Town suburb of Woodstock.
<em>Gwen Ansell</em> speaks to two veterans of the apartheid era who dazzled the Cape Town International Jazz Festival.
Campaigners say conditions in Blikkiesdorp or "Tin Can Town" are worse than in the townships created during apartheid.
Thandi Maqubela, charged with the murder of her husband, acting judge Patrick Maqubela, was released on R100 000 bail on Thursday.
Since his arrest for drunken driving in Cape Town this month, the ANC’s senior spokesperson, Jackson Mthembu, apologises to everyone he meets.
African National Congress spokesperson Jackson Mthembu has been convicted of drunken driving following a plea agreement with prosecutors.
Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong finished in the lead group in the Cape Argus cycle tour around the Cape Peninsula on Sunday.
When in Cape Town Communications Minister Siphiwe Nyanda lives a five-star life at the city’s top hotels — courtesy of the taxpayer.
What to do, where to go and what to see this week.
President Jacob Zuma likes his Cape Town offices at Tuinhuys, but not so much that he wants Parliament to stay in the mother city.
A sacked Cape Town sex worker had three Labour Appeal Court judges on Thursday grappling with whether she was entitled to challenge her dismissal.
ANC spokesperson Jackson Mthembu was arrested for drunken driving in Cape Town on Thursday morning — but this did not stop him from doing his job.
Traffic police in Cape Town have arrested African National Congress spokesperson Jackson Mthembu for alleged drunken driving on the N2 on Thursday.
"Johannesburg has a lot of soul, a lot of culture, a lot of South Africa," says Azra Joosab, who moved to Johannesburg at the beginning of 2008.
Cape Town should brace itself for bigger storms dumping massive amounts of rain as climate change takes hold, an environmental expert said.
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/ 26 February 2010
The Bellville Commercial Crime Court on Friday rejected an application for the early release of former Fidentia accountant Graham Maddock.
District Six, in the east end of Cape Town, was once one of the most culturally mixed neighbourhoods in South Africa.
Major opposition parties staged a walkout from Parliament on Tuesday, with accusations of swearing being made by the ANC.
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/ 14 February 2010
DA leader Helen Zille on Sunday described Western Cape Community Safety minister Lennit Max’s alleged extramarital affair as a "private" matter.
Battered by scandal and facing a divided ANC, President Jacob Zuma sought on Thursday to dress his presidency in robes borrowed from Nelson Mandela.
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/ 5 February 2010
"It’s a clean, fast kill," says marksman Abelines Schoeman, as his spotlight searches for the telltale red glint that betrays a rabbit’s eye.
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/ 1 February 2010
Leaders of opposition parties will gather in Cape Town in March to talk about forming a united front in next year’s municipal elections, the ID says.
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/ 26 January 2010
South Africa’s top holiday destination Cape Town weathered a post-recession summer with fewer tourists, but is gearing up to bounce back in 2010.
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/ 21 January 2010
Our top art and entertainment picks for this week and beyond
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/ 15 January 2010
Is Tiger Woods licking his wounds in a Cape Town rehab? <i>Yazeed Kamaldien</i> gets stonewalled trying to find out.
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/ 14 January 2010
The City of Cape Town opened beaches around False Bay on Thursday morning after a man was killed by a shark at Fish Hoek beach earlier in the week.
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/ 13 January 2010
Beaches from Glencairn to Muizenberg will be closed until further notice after a man was attacked by a shark while swimming at Fish Hoek beach.
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/ 13 January 2010
There is very little chance of finding the remains of a
Zimbabwean man who was attacked by a great white shark at Fish Hoek beach on Tuesday
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/ 13 January 2010
The search for a man believed to have been attacked by a shark off Fish Hoek beach in Cape Town resumed on Wednesday morning