Stand-in skipper Victor Matfield has vowed that the Springboks will be ”merciless” in Saturday’s one-off Test against Italy at Newlands.
Constitutional Court judges are to press on with a complaint against Cape Town Judge President John Hlophe
One of South African rugby’s most successful coaches has returned home to take on the team he coached to 17 consecutive Test wins.
Victor Matfield will lead the Springboks against Italy in a one-off Test at Newlands on Saturday.
Eighteen Western Cape teenagers were rescued from Table Mountain on Monday morning, the Table Mountain National Park said.
President Thabo Mbeki on Monday called on the youth of the country to stand up against perpetrators of xenophobic violence.
A row over the development of one of Cape Town’s most popular coastal sites has taken a sharply political turn.
An eight-year-old Worcester boy told his teacher and his mother that he was repeatedly raped, beaten and threatened by children at his school.
Cape Town documentary film-maker Isalee Jacobson was not impressed with the reintegration of immigrants in Khayelitsha.
A Johannesburg Bar member protests against the attack on Judge John Hlophe on insubstantial evidence.
The collar of his leather jacket probably saved his life when he was stabbed in the neck, Western Cape provincial secretary Mcebisi Skwatsha said.
The Western Cape government and the City of Cape Town have locked horns over the handling of xenophobia victims.
The city of Cape Town says it is to hold a workshop in a bid to find solutions to the city’s refugee crisis.
The City of Cape Town says it will fight a High Court order that it open up community halls to foreign nationals displaced by last month’s xenophobic violence.
It is a brave new world that the third edition of the Cape Town Book Fair, subtitled <i>Words Create Worlds</i>, encounters from June 14.
There is a strong level of understanding among African leaders on the need for stable democratic systems, President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday.
There was no reason for Fidentia boss J Arthur Brown to remain in a private clinic for treatment after he was allegedly sexually assaulted in a prison vehicle, the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court heard on Friday.
The slow pace of regional integration and poor infrastructure are hampering trade between countries in Africa, delegates at a World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting said on Friday.
A meeting of the Judicial Services Commission (JSC) was under way on Friday to consider an allegation levelled against Cape Judge President John Hlophe.
President Thabo Mbeki insisted this week that he had no prior warning of xenophobic violence, but he was flatly contradicted by a group of Congolese and Rwandan refugees in Cape Town.
The chair of Parliament’s justice committee has called for the Judicial Service Commission to consider opening to the public some of its hearings on the conduct of Cape Judge President John Hlophe.
A man who doused a young woman with petrol and another who set her alight in 2006 were convicted of murder in the Cape High Court on Thursday.
The drunken-driving charge against Tony Yengeni, former chief whip of the African National Congress, is linked to the criminal case involving the former commander of the Goodwood police station, Siphiwo Hewana, the Goodwood Magistrate’s Court heard.
The rising cost of food is a time bomb that could result in uprisings, African National Congress president Jacob Zuma told the World Economic Forum on Africa on Thursday.
President Thabo Mbeki on Tuesday denied reports that the South African government had been warned of the prospect of xenophobic attacks by the National Intelligence Agency. ”There was no such intelligence reports — they certainly did not come to me,” he said.
Wales coach Warren Gatland said that the physical conditioning of South African players could give the world champion Springboks an edge in the first Test in Bloemfontein on Saturday. ”That’s one of the biggest fears we’ve got — how physical and fit these South African players are from the Super 14,” said Gatland.
The General Council of the Bar, representing most of the country’s advocates, on Tuesday added its voice to calls for Cape Judge President John Hlophe to step down. Chairperson Jannie Eksteen said if Hlophe did not voluntarily go on leave, the minister of justice or the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) ”must see how that can be facilitated as a matter of urgency”.
The procedures of appointing the South African Broadcasting Corporation’s (SABC) board are to be reviewed, Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri said on Tuesday. Speaking in the National Assembly she said there had been a national debate about the SABC as a result of views that emerged out of the assembly’s communications committee hearings.
Cape Judge President John Hlophe should step down from his post until the latest complaint against him has been resolved, according to the Cape Bar Council. ”It would be untenable for Judge Hlophe to continue in office pending the determination of the complaint by the Judicial Services Commission,” the council said on Tuesday.
Former Fidentia boss J Arthur Brown was still too ill to appear in court, his attorney told a Cape Town magistrate on Tuesday. The magistrate, Justhree Steyn, was expected to hear a bail application by Brown, recently re-arrested on fresh fraud and theft charges.
Immigrant leaders in South Africa said on Monday that thousands of refugees frustrated at miserable living conditions were on the point of retaliating against a wave of xenophobic attacks. Tens of thousands of immigrants have been forced to take refuge at temporary shelters around the country after mobs began attacking foreigners.
A Cape High Court judge on Monday dismissed an application to force Finance Minister Trevor Manuel to hand over arms-deal documents, activist Terry Crawford-Browne said. He said Judge Daniel Dlodlo ruled in essence ”that I had waited too long in asserting my rights to discovery of the documents”.