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Cape Town

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/ 27 August 2009

Fraud rife in Cape Town planning dept, says report

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.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 24 August 2009

Parly perlé

How to dine like a millionaire, even if lunch at Parliament is more like old railways fare.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 20 August 2009

Gateway never had a chance

Cape Town’s disastrous N2 Gateway project began without a funded budget and was starved of agreed funding by the National Housing Department.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 13 August 2009

Court finds Chaaban guilty of assault

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.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 12 August 2009

Hlophe denies mentioning Buthelezi to M&G

Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe on Tuesday denied mentioning Mangosuthu Buthelezi or the Zulu king in an interview with the M&G.

By Mail Guardian Online Reporter, Sapa Author and Sapa Afp
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/ 27 July 2009

Court reserves judgement in Rodrigues appeal

A court has reserved judgement in an appeal against the severity of sentence imposed on Dina Rodrigues and four others for murder.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 21 July 2009

Aids forum told of ART as a means of HIV prevention

SA should lead the way in using antiretroviral therapy (ART) as a means of HIV prevention, WHO official Dr Reuben Granich said on Monday.

By Mara Kardas-Nelson
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/ 20 July 2009

High-price Aids drugs put lives at risk, MSF warns

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.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 14 July 2009

Mopping up continues in Cape Town after floods

Cape Town’s disaster and emergency workers continued removing debris and unblocking drains after heavy rains drove residents from their homes.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 13 July 2009

Thousands left homeless in wake of heavy Cape rains

Thousands of shack dwellers were left homeless on Monday morning after heavy rains caused flooding around Cape Town.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 7 July 2009

Brussels without the sprouts

The Waterfront is your best bet for a taste of Belgian cuisine even though it is a tourist haunt.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 26 June 2009

Old Milk

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.

By Shaun De Waal
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/ 25 June 2009

More Robben Island walkouts

Management style said to be at the core of museum’s troubles, reports Glynnis Underhill.

By Glynnis Underhill
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/ 24 June 2009

Parliament wraps up inquiry into SABC

Two more SABC board members have resigned, leaving one last member standing, it was reported on Wednesday.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 20 June 2009

Bazaarly affordable

The Eastern Food Bazaar thrives in spite — or because — of the recession.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 19 June 2009

Xenophobia still smoulders in Cape townships

”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.”

By Mandisi Majavu
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/ 12 June 2009

Zuma: SA doing all it can to eradicate crime

In some countries the media were applauded as patriotic for not reporting on crime, President Jacob Zuma said on Friday.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 10 June 2009

African reform appears to stall amid global crisis

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.

By Ed Cropley
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/ 7 June 2009

Zille shakes up SA politics

In apartheid times Helen Zille enraged South Africa’s white rulers, and lately she has ruffled South Africa’s black political establishment.

By Staff Reporter
Harnessing the tides
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/ 7 June 2009

Harnessing the tides

Wave power might be ‘nirvana’ for alternative energy, but the technology is still in its infancy, writes Ilham Rawoot.

By Ilham Rawoot
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/ 4 June 2009

Helderberg blaze caused by kids smoking, not arson

The fire that ravaged the Helderberg earlier this year was caused by children smoking, not by arson, according to findings released on Thursday.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 3 June 2009

Cape Town means business

It’s no Silicon Valley, but "Slaapstad" may be more awake than most South Africans assume.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 3 June 2009

State of the Nation: Zuma has little to offer

In his first State of the Nation address it was obvious that President Jacob Zuma had, owing to the dire economic climate, little to offer.

By Mandy Rossouw
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/ 3 June 2009

Finery on parade at State of the Nation

A downpour in Cape Town did little to dampen the spirits of those gathered for President Jacob Zuma’s State of the Nation address on Wednesday.

By Mandy Rossouw
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/ 2 June 2009

Courtroom drama in Travelgate case

The attorney representing Travelgate MP Nyami Booi was threatened with a contempt of court conviction on Tuesday after he walked out on the magistrate

By Staff Reporter
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/ 30 May 2009

Fifty-five whales stranded at Kommetjie

About 55 whales were stranded on a beach near Cape Town on Saturday and high waves were hampering efforts by rescue teams.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 30 May 2009

Zille: We will not be deterred by the ANC

The DA will not be deterred by ”the ANC’s plans” to disempower it through an orchestrated campaign to make the Western Cape ”ungovernable”.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 26 May 2009

Xenophobic refugees ‘cheated UN’, court hears

Some xenophobia refugees in Cape Town cheated the United Nations of relief funds last year, according to an affidavit filed in court.

By Ben Maclennan
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/ 22 May 2009

MPs evacuated from hotel after bomb scare

About 100 newly elected members of Parliament have been evacuated from their hotel in Cape Town following a bomb scare on Friday, it was reported.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 17 May 2009

Zille’s ‘sex pest’ safety minister

All four women who laid charges against Max — two of them senior police officers — worked with him.

By Pearlie Joubert Author
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/ 16 May 2009

Labour department probes hostel fire

Investigations are underway to determine the cause of fire that left four dead and seven others injured at a boarding house in Cape Town on Friday.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 15 May 2009

Four killed in Cape Town hostel fire

Four guests died and seven others were injured in a fire at the Two Oceans Backpackers in Cape Town on Friday, said Western Cape police.

By Staff Reporter
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