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/ 23 February 2012
The DA’s Richard Majola has been voted in as the new speaker of the Western Cape legislature, replacing Shahid Esau, who has joined Parliament..
A fraud case has been opened against Cope leader Mosiuoa Lekota, days after he suspended the party’s treasurer for alleged financial mismanagement.
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/ 17 January 2012
Rhino poachers have once again struck in the Western Cape, killing a bull on a private farm near Mossel Bay and stripping it of both its horns.
Suspicion surrounds the circumstances that led to a man under arrest dying in hospital.
The Young Communist League has dubbed Western Cape premier Helen Zille’s campaign of offering incentives to people testing for HIV/Aids as immoral.
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/ 2 December 2011
An ex-NPA employee has been arrested for alleged tender fraud, involving a contract for guarding and special services.
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/ 15 November 2011
Twenty people have died following an accident involving two minibuses and a truck in the Karoo on Tuesday morning, Western Cape police say.
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/ 18 October 2011
Senior Western Cape officials are taking the correctional services department to court, saying they have been denied promotions because of their race.
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/ 2 September 2011
Locals are objecting to prospecting rights granted to a BEE company ‘with no mining experience at all’.
While municipal workers in Gauteng were asking the premier to intervene in wage negotiations, strikers in Cape Town were denied permission to march.
Someone "with an axe to grind" used the <i>Sunday Times</i> newspaper to create a scandal in the Western Cape, premier Helen Zille says.
After a public spat with singer Simphiwe Dana, DA leader Helen Zille says that the social platform Twitter can be as troublesome as it is useful.
The Cape Party, with its quixotic attempt to have the Western Cape secede, operates in a fine tradition of civic blindness, writes <b>Chris Roper</b>.
Unprotected sex, alcohol abuse and illiteracy are destroying the future of the country’s youth, says ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema.
Which party wants the Western Cape to secede from South Africa? Hint: it’s not the DA.
Western Cape premier Helen Zille says she has appointed ex-Cape Town mayor Dan Plato as the minister for community safety in her provincial cabinet.
Coalition rule in Cape Town was the first major step in the DA’s move into government. But the party is treading more carefully this time around.
A new species of cockroach, the world’s only known jumping cockroach, has been discovered in the middle of Cape Town’s Table Mountain National Park.
A 53-year old voter died of a heart attack while waiting in a queue to vote in Tafelsig on the Cape Flats on Wednesday afternoon.
Mineral Resources official in "close personal relationship" with controversial mine bids businessman.
A small ANC-led district municipality in the Western Cape has many satisfied residents, writes <b>Lynley Donnelly</b>.
Disgraced ANC politician, Ebrahim Rasool, lands on his feet in his new role as ambassador to the United States.
The ANC is not likely to win Cape Town in the coming elections, but will look to do well elsewhere in the Western Cape, it said on Wednesday.
The threat of mass evictions has been lifted from residents of Cape Town’s Joe Slovo informal settlement.
Changes to ward councillor lists are a growing headache for the ANC in the Western Cape.
Disgruntled members of the ANC stormed the party’s provincial offices on Tuesday over selection of candidates in 16 wards.
The DA’s newly nominated candidate for mayor of Cape Town, Patricia De Lille, was not surprised when she heard Jimmy Manyi’s comments.
Cosatu’s Western Cape provincial secretary, Tony Ehrenreich believes the Democratic Alliance has reason to be concerned.
Attention to detail, self-discipline and good teaching
add up to a good academic record, writes <b>Yazeed Kamaldien</b>.
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/ 28 February 2011
The weekly Kuli Roberts column in <em>Sunday World</em> will be discontinued with immediate effect, the newspaper’s editor said on Monday.
Bidder got it for R65-million less than the best offer but nothing has been done for five years.
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/ 25 February 2011
Teachers trained at huge state expense could be lost to public education if the WCED does not find them teaching posts by Monday.