A man dying alone in a shack of Aids speaks volumes about conditions in Blikkiesdorp, described as a ”dumping ground” for unwanted people in Cape Town
Finding good Thai food in Cape Town is often a hit-and-miss affair, but there are one or two places that consistently get it right.
Brent Meersman gives his pick of the Cape Town restaurants joining this weekend’s festivities.
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/ 25 September 2009
The ANC says it is to conduct an audit of all its Western Cape branches as a first step to regaining control of Cape Town and the province.
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/ 23 September 2009
Life in the last white bastion means having to explain how you got there in the first place. Palesa Morudu reports from Cape Town.
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/ 21 September 2009
Judge President Hlophe said he would “love” to be part of the Constitutional Court during his interview for a post on the bench by the JSC on Sunday.
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/ 19 September 2009
You get face-lifts … and then you get face-lifts. Just ask Tom Jones. The Renault Clio’s is one of the more successful ones, writes Steve Smith.
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/ 13 September 2009
It’s not often that the halls of the Cape Town Waterfront offer up experiences of profound reflection that make you reconsider the citizenship.
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/ 13 September 2009
"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast," says Mrs Cheveley in Oscar Wilde’s <em>An Ideal Husband</em>.
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/ 10 September 2009
A response to the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> article of August 14, "Gateway never had a chance"
A damning report leaked to the <i>M&G</i> exposes how fraud was rife in Cape Town’s planning and building development management department.
How to dine like a millionaire, even if lunch at Parliament is more like old railways fare.
Cape Town’s disastrous N2 Gateway project began without a funded budget and was starved of agreed funding by the National Housing Department.
Leader of the National People’s Party Badih Chaaban was fined on Thursday for assaulting the party’s former national organiser with a coffee cup.
Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe on Tuesday denied mentioning Mangosuthu Buthelezi or the Zulu king in an interview with the M&G.
A court has reserved judgement in an appeal against the severity of sentence imposed on Dina Rodrigues and four others for murder.
SA should lead the way in using antiretroviral therapy (ART) as a means of HIV prevention, WHO official Dr Reuben Granich said on Monday.
The high cost of drugs needed to treat Aids patients is putting the lives of thousands at risk, Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) said on Monday.
Cape Town’s disaster and emergency workers continued removing debris and unblocking drains after heavy rains drove residents from their homes.
Thousands of shack dwellers were left homeless on Monday morning after heavy rains caused flooding around Cape Town.
The Waterfront is your best bet for a taste of Belgian cuisine even though it is a tourist haunt.
25-Year-old Documentary of the Week: Shaun de Waal on the doccie about Harvey Milk that is on at the Labia in Cape Town.
Management style said to be at the core of museum’s troubles, reports Glynnis Underhill.
Two more SABC board members have resigned, leaving one last member standing, it was reported on Wednesday.
The Eastern Food Bazaar thrives in spite — or because — of the recession.
”These foreign people come to South Africa with nothing, but tomorrow he has cash, third day he owns a shop and fourth day he has a car.”
In some countries the media were applauded as patriotic for not reporting on crime, President Jacob Zuma said on Friday.
Economic reforms that helped drive Africa’s fastest growth for decades appear to be stalling in the face of the global crisis, a report shows.
In apartheid times Helen Zille enraged South Africa’s white rulers, and lately she has ruffled South Africa’s black political establishment.
Wave power might be ‘nirvana’ for alternative energy, but the technology is still in its infancy, writes Ilham Rawoot.
The fire that ravaged the Helderberg earlier this year was caused by children smoking, not by arson, according to findings released on Thursday.
It’s no Silicon Valley, but "Slaapstad" may be more awake than most South Africans assume.