A court interdict preventing police arresting sex workers was granted because the NPA fails to prosecute them, the City of Cape Town said on Tuesday.
Allan Boesak, the Western Cape premier candidate for Cope, has invited DA leader Helen Zille to join his party.
Cape Town sex workers on Monday won a court order to stop police arresting them when they know prosecution is unlikely to follow.
Elizabeth Toll has a million-dollar view. But as the sun dips behind the mountains enclosing the cove where she lives, she shivers inside her shack.
South Africans across the globe showed up on Wednesday to vote, and for most making their mark in a foreign land was a momentous occasion.
Cecil Skotnes, who died last weekend at the age of 82, pioneered a way of producing art that used earth pigments and wood to construct visual stories.
The DA won victories in two by-elections held in Cape Town on Wednesday, a sign, the party says, that it is on track to win the Western Cape.
South Africa completed victory over Australia by an innings and 20 runs in the third Test at Newlands on Sunday.
The global financial crisis presents a ”great” opportunity to create a socially just economic system, an economic researcher said on Wednesday.
One of the victims of the fire that raged on Table Mountain through Tuesday night has died, the Western Cape health department said on Wednesday.
The fire on Devil’s Peak above Cape Town was ”more or less contained”, it was reported on Wednesday afternoon.
The fire on Devil’s Peak above Cape Town was largely contained and ”not looking too bad”, said Table Mountain National Park fire chief Philip Prins.
Cape Town mayor Helen Zille’s threat to call in the army to quell taxi violence was reminiscent of the apartheid era, Allan Boesak said on Wednesday.
Winds of up to 60km/h wreaked havoc at the Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour on Sunday, collapsing tents and scaffolding.
If it is March in Cape Town, it must be Argus time, and a miserable time it is too for the city’s cyclists.
Nicole Johnston goes bed-hopping in the Western Cape, from boutique backpackers to five-star eco-luxury resorts.
DA leader Helen Zille on Monday dismissed claims by Cope that her party has not made a difference to the lives of the people of Cape Town.
South Africa is considering granting credit lines for neighbouring Zimbabwe, President Kgalema Motlanthe said on Monday.
A court application is pending in which former chief executive of the Fidentia group, J Arthur Brown, seeks an order to stop his prosecution.
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/ 24 February 2009
Cope president Mosiuoa Lekota promised on Monday that his party would not give people top jobs because ”they were on Robben Island”.
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/ 24 February 2009
This year’s Design Indaba will try to define the South African aesthetic. Nadine Botha asks what that means and how it can be achieved.
So most Idols contestants can’t sing: does that give the judges the right to humiliate them on live TV?
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/ 18 February 2009
A City of Cape Town disciplinary committee has found DA councillor Frank Martin guilty of encouraging people to invade homes at Delft in the city.
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/ 18 February 2009
The Two Oceans Marathon race office has received confirmation from the Western Cape government that Chapman’s Peak will be open for the race in April.
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/ 18 February 2009
High ranking police officers were harshly interrogated in the presence of colleagues for alleged dereliction of duty if unable to control crime.
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/ 16 February 2009
Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting says the pressure will be all on South Africa when the teams play for No. 1 Test team status.
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/ 13 February 2009
Although the Super 14 begins for most teams this year on Valentine’s Day, it can be assumed that there will be a minimum of love lost.
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/ 11 February 2009
Proposed adjustment to the personal income tax schedules will provide relief of R13,6-billion to individual taxpayers, Manuel announced on Wednesday.
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/ 11 February 2009
Finance Minister Trevor Manuel’s budget on Wednesday preached his age-old message of prudent fiscal policy, efficiency and sustainability.
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/ 11 February 2009
Najwa Petersen on Wednesday escaped a sentence of life imprisonment for the murder of her husband Taliep, but was effectively jailed for 28 years.
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/ 11 February 2009
According to Finance Minister Manuel, there will be R13,6-billion of tax relief for individuals in this year’s tax period. But don’t be fooled.
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/ 6 February 2009
President’s first State of the Nation speech walked a tightrope between appeasing the new, more leftist ANC and acknowledging the work done by Mbeki.