A community leader says the farm workers in the Western Cape were ignored despite their value to the economy, Lynley Donnelly reports.
A stretch of farmland that could prove vital to Cape Town’s food security is threatened by development, illegal dumping and informal settlements.
Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille will continue to lead the party until such time as ‘someone else can do this job better than I can’.
The Western Cape ANC’s announcement that it will evaluate the performance of its public representatives has ignited tension in the party.
Anxious residents have prodded Western Cape authorities to find out why crime is flourishing. Glynnis Underhill reports.
Funds being raised for the Western Cape ANC are not making it to the party’s coffers, says provincial treasurer Fezile Calana.
Left without furniture or phones, the party’s Western Cape arm says its campaigns are not conducted in offices, writes Glynnis Underhill.
Parliamentarians have approved an amendment to the Sexual Offences Act as a measure to prevent certain crimes becoming impossible to prosecute.
Western Cape politician Dan Plato has accused the ANC of plotting with gangs to destabilise the province in a bid to wrestle control from the DA.
The top three winners in the Excellence in Special Needs Education category.
The winners in the Excellence in primary school teaching category were announced in Johannesburg recently.
The winners in the Excellence in Adult Basic Education and Training category were announced in Johannesburg recently at the National Teaching Awards.
Violent protests near Cape Town and Jo’burg — over schooling and power cuts — have been met with police water cannons, stun grenades and tear gas.
The Democratic Alliance in the Western Cape has been accused of using hunting permits to win votes, and this has affected the predator numbers.
The Cape Argus Cycle Tour held this past weekend was estimated to have contributed R450-million to the Western Cape’s economy.
Teachers are marching with Cosatu, but their pupils must be in class tomorrow. Except maybe in Cape Town, where children have been invited to join in.
The Democratic Alliance has turned down an invitation to join a Cosatu-led protest against labour broking and e-tolling in Cape Town’s CBD.
The world’s thirst for rooibos tea is growing and so is the Western Cape rooibos industry. But climate change is threatening to nip that in the bud.
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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.