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.
The 63-year-old Malan van Rensburg from Pretoria is the oldest participant in this year’s Absa Cape Epic mountain bike race.
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.
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/ 26 February 2009
Fires that were threatening historic wine estates in Somerset West have been put out ”for now”, Cape Town fire management said on Thursday morning.
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/ 25 February 2009
Two fires were still raging on farms in Somerset West on Wednesday afternoon, threatening historic wine estates in the area.
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/ 24 February 2009
In what it described as a ”pro-poor” budget, the Western Cape provincial government on Tuesday promised to combat the threat of job losses.
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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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/ 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.