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.
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/ 7 February 2009
Germany beat the Spar South African women’s hockey team 3-0 in the second Test played at Stellenbosch University on Friday night.
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/ 5 February 2009
Firefighters are still struggling to extinguish a fire that broke out at the Jonkershoek Nature Reserve on Wednesday afternoon.
An ‘affordable’ safari often means a gaggle of 4x4s circling a lone animal, but you’re guaranteed to be outnumbered by wildlife in the Great Karoo.
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/ 4 February 2009
Najwa Petersen was among the top 3% of earners in South Africa when she killed her husband, Taliep, the Cape High Court heard on Wednesday.
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/ 4 February 2009
Will he or won’t he announce a poll date? That is the question observers are asking ahead of the president’s State of the Nation speech on Friday.
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/ 3 February 2009
After six months in the Western Cape premier’s office, Lynne Brown has still not made herself too comfortable behind the big desk.
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/ 27 January 2009
Hundreds of shebeen owners and workers marched to the Western Cape legislature in Cape Town on Tuesday in protest against proposed new liquor rulings.
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/ 23 January 2009
Cosatu denied reports on Friday that its Western Cape leader is considering the creation of a new party to help the ANC win back dwindling support.
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/ 23 January 2009
Recent media reports that the South African judiciary is being undermined have no basis, says President Kgalema Motlanthe.
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/ 22 January 2009
Finalist — Investing in Life Awards: Coca Cola — Men as Partners.
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/ 21 January 2009
Organisations across the Western Cape have been integrating cost optimisation initiatives into their 2009 strategic objectives, KPMG said on Wednesday
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/ 20 January 2009
Cape Town firefighters were monitoring mountain and bush fires at Red Hill and near Athlone on Tuesday, the city said.
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/ 18 January 2009
The death toll from an accident that occurred in Wellington in the Western Cape on Saturday has risen to 12, the SABC reported.
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/ 15 January 2009
Former Cape Town mayor Nomaindia Mfeketo has been removed from her position as convenor of the ANC’s national executive committe task team.
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/ 13 January 2009
Construction recently started on Africa’s first state-of-the-art film studio near Cape Town, which once completed will be worthy of Hollywood status.
Ajax Cape Town and Santos played to a 1-1 draw in an action-packed derby at the Athlone Stadium on Wednesday night.
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/ 25 December 2008
Brent Meersman goes up and down Cape Town’s cosmopolitan strip.
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/ 21 December 2008
South Africa’s Richard Sterne moved into the world top 50 on Sunday after capturing the South African Open title.