A psychiatrist on Thursday testified he is convinced former Fidentia boss J Arthur Brown was in fact raped by a fellow prisoner earlier this year.
Authorities have agreed to hold back on the closure of camps still housing xenophobia refugees in Cape Town, the Aids Law Project said on Wednesday.
Leonie Joubert chats to former provincial environment minister Tasneem Essop after her sudden departure from politics
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News that a development planned for the Sea Point promenade has stalled strengthens calls for preserving public spaces.
US aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt was docked on Monday in Cape Town on a visit to SA aimed at building ties.
Pearlie Joubert reports the heart-wrenching tale of a Somalian family who lost six members in SA — where they fled for a better life.
Hundreds of ANC dissidents met for three hours in Cape Town on Saturday, but a spokesperson said they had not discussed the formation of a new party.
Former ANC chief whip Tony Yengeni’s drunken-driving trial will start on November 14, a court decided on Friday.
Cricketer Herschelle Gibbs will go on trial for drunken driving on December 3, a Cape Town magistrate ordered on Friday.
Former Fidentia boss J Arthur Brown should be sent for 30 days’ mental observation, a prosecutor told a Cape Town magistrate on Thursday.
The ID on Thursday ruled out the possibility of forming a coalition government with the ANC in the Western Cape after next year’s election.
Despite being intimidated by shadowy figures, a refugee camp coordinator speaks out about shocking conditions.
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/ 30 September 2008
Unlike the Stormers’ failed Super 14 venture, Western Province’s Currie Cup play-off fate will not rest on the outcome of other games.
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/ 30 September 2008
South African cineastes and cinephiles can catch up with already-released South African films they might have missed at the Apollo Film Festival.
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/ 29 September 2008
One faction claims to have been left out, the other sees it as having defected.
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/ 25 September 2008
The deputy president of the ANC, Kgalema Motlanthe, was elected president of South Africa in the National Assembly on Thursday.
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/ 25 September 2008
Supporters of Jacob Zuma have taken the top five positions in the leadership of the ANC in the Western Cape.
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/ 25 September 2008
South Africa’s Parliament convened on Thursday to elect a new president, after the ruling party forced Thabo Mbeki from office.
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/ 25 September 2008
Moroka Swallows regained their form and fortitude to beat Santos 3-0 in a fast and furious Absa Premiership game on Wednesday night.
While activists try to ban gin traps, the government says there are ‘humane’ ways to use them.
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/ 24 September 2008
Outgoing Western Cape African National Congress chairperson James Ngculu has called for unity in the party in the province.
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/ 23 September 2008
South African lawmakers rubber-stamped President Thabo Mbeki’s resignation on Tuesday, as he attempts to mend his bruised reputation.
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/ 23 September 2008
The Karoo town of Merweville is going through the worst drought in nearly 50 years, writes Pearlie Joubert.
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/ 19 September 2008
The Competition Appeal Court has rejected a bid by dairy producers Clover and Ladismith Cheese to avoid a price-fixing hearing.
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/ 19 September 2008
Allowing Rastafarian warders to wear dreadlocks would ”open the floodgates” of indiscipline, says the area manager of Pollsmoor Prison.
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/ 18 September 2008
A deep-sea fisherman who participated in the gang rape of a 14-year-old girl was on Thursday jailed by the Cape High Court for 16 years.
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/ 18 September 2008
The contrasting events of last week highlight both the romanticism of citizen journalism and the fragile character of the phenomenon.
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/ 17 September 2008
Cricket South Africa president Norman Arendse resigned on Wednesday, saying the organisation’s chief executive did not trust him.
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/ 17 September 2008
The ”lavishly decorated” Cape Town headquarters of the Fidentia group are to go under the hammer on October 8, it was announced on Wednesday.
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/ 17 September 2008
Springbok scrumhalf Ricky Januarie appeared in court on Wednesday following his arrest early on Sunday for alleged drunken driving.
Brent Meersman gets a taste of the East without precaution at Bukara in Cape Town.
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/ 15 September 2008
Springbok scrumhalf Ricky Januarie was arrested on Sunday morning in Durbanville for drunken driving.