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/ 1 September 2009
The Western Cape has received offers from the private sector for the R2,4-billion rebuilding of Tygerberg Hospital, the health minister said.
Cosatu on Friday backed off from its Equality Court demand that Western Cape Premier Helen Zille reconstitute her male-dominated cabinet.
How to dine like a millionaire, even if lunch at Parliament is more like old railways fare.
Cape Town’s disastrous N2 Gateway project began without a funded budget and was starved of agreed funding by the National Housing Department.
Western Cape Premier Helen Zille had hoped to have at least three other women in her cabinet, according to papers filed in the Equality Court.
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.
The ANC’s NWC has set up teams to tackle problems in the North West and Western Cape after the executives in both provinces were disbanded.
A court has reserved judgement in an appeal against the severity of sentence imposed on Dina Rodrigues and four others for murder.
SA should lead the way in using antiretroviral therapy (ART) as a means of HIV prevention, WHO official Dr Reuben Granich said on Monday.
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.
Cape Town’s disaster and emergency workers continued removing debris and unblocking drains after heavy rains drove residents from their homes.
The Waterfront is your best bet for a taste of Belgian cuisine even though it is a tourist haunt.
At least eight people died in a bus accident near Beaufort West on Tuesday morning, Western Cape traffic authorities said.
Western Cape doctors on Friday agreed to call off their strike and go back to work, but are still not happy with the government’s pay offer.
Like a wayward child, the Western Cape is the only province in South Africa not to dance in step with Umshini Wami
DA leader Helen Zille told the Mail & Guardian Online on Thursday that the party is ”not very happy” about the election results.
A last-minute concession allowing people to vote at the polling station of their choice caused headaches in the Western Cape on Wednesday.
The South African Open golf tournament will take place at Pearl Valley Golf Estates outside Paarl in the Western Cape from December 17 to 20.
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.
Almost a year after Skwatsha was stabbed in the neck during an ANC meeting in Worcester, ANCYL member Ndikho Tyawana appeared in court this week.
Fifteen members of the Western Cape’s top crime-fighting unit are being investigated for murder, writes
Pearlie Joubert.
Helen Zille has received so many death and bomb threats in the past three weeks that her security changes her car regularly.
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.
The DA will win at least 40% of the vote in the Western Cape next month, party chief executive Ryan Coetzee said on Monday.
Veteran Cape politician Peter Marais will remain with Cope after being ”illegally” removed from the party’s provincial election list.
The fire on Devil’s Peak above Cape Town was ”more or less contained”, it was reported on Wednesday afternoon.
”Some – have tried to reintegrate on more than one occasion,” she says. ”Because they fear for their safety they’re not going back.”
Political scientists suggest voters in the Western Cape are more likely to consider alternatives in this election.
Pearlie Joubert visits a place where drugs, gangs and crime rule.
The leader of the DA, Helen Zille, has outlined an idyllic picture of what life will be like if her party wins the April 22 election.
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.