Former Western Cape minister for finance and economic affairs Lynne Brown was on Friday officially sworn in as premier of the province.
Lynne Brown is inaugurated on Friday as the Western Cape’s first female premier. She told Pearlie Joubert about her journey to her new corner office.
Western Cape Premier Ebrahim Rasool’s removal from office is bad for the provincial government and the City of Cape Town, mayor Helen Zille says.
Western Cape Premier Ebrahim Rasool will resign with effect from Friday, African National Congress chairperson Baleka Mbete has announced.
Kgalema Motlanthe, appointed by President Thabo Mbeki to Cabinet last week, attended his first meeting of the executive on Tuesday.
Wayne Rooney’s fragile temperament came to the fore once again in Cape Town as Manchester United drew 1-1 with Kaizer Chiefs at Newlands.
The state has rejected arguments that a drunken-driving charge against former ANC chief whip Tony Yengeni be withdrawn, a Cape Town court has heard.
The ANC has proposed a number of possible candidates to replace Western Cape Premier Ebrahim Rasool and Eastern Cape Premier Nosimo Balindlela.
”The theme for tonight is betrayal,” Ebrahim Rasool told about 800 family, staff and supporters gathered for a surprise birthday party in Cape Town.
The latest Fiat shares little with its predecessor of 50 years ago except, to some extent, its styling. It’s also nowhere near as cutesy-wutesy.
There was nothing unlawful about the way former SA cricketer Garth le Roux dealt with commissions for property sales, his lawyer has told a court.
The ANC’s Gwede Mantashe has defended his criticism of the Constitutional Court’s handling of its complaint against Cape Judge President John Hlophe.
Informal operators working from their garages and bakkies may see an increase in their numbers as marginal formal workshops scale down.
A prosecutor has asked the Wynberg Regional Court to convict former Springbok cricketer Garth le Roux and his accountant on tax-fraud charges.
A warrant was issued on Monday for the arrest of a woman who allegedly duped people into believing that she had inherited R600-million.
Finance minister Trevor Manuel has issued a stern threat of legal consequences for journalists over his court battle with Terry Crawford-Browne.
Media reports say the African National Congress has fired the premiers of the Western and Eastern Cape, Nosimo Balindlela and Ebrahim Rasool.
Western Cape housing minister Richard Dyantyi has applied to rezone land occupied by the informal settlement, despite residents opposing evictions.
Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille on Friday lambasted the African National Congress for itself being counter-revolutionary.
Refugees want to tell Ebrahim Rasool that they are terrified of being forced to reintegrate, despite camps being scheduled to close on July 23.
A DRC woman wept quietly on Thursday as she described how her family were hounded as they tried to return to their shack in a Cape Town settlement.
The Western Cape has been singled out by police as having one of the highest incidences of child murder.
Skies showed signs of clearing over the Western Cape on Wednesday afternoon, offering a respite to communities hit by days of driving rain and floods.
Officials were on Tuesday monitoring a cracked bridge over the swollen Olifants River on the West Coast and assessing other damage in the region.
Thousands of people have been displaced by flooding in Cape Town, the city said on Monday as the SA Weather Service predicted more rain.
Former Fidentia boss J Arthur Brown is not getting the medication he needs while he is in prison, his attorney said on Monday.
A march by Cosatu to Parliament on Wednesday will demand that the government places an immediate freeze on food prices.
Amid the genteel theatre-goers and rowdy privileged schoolkids, there are dozens of poverty-stricken children in fixed poses, faces painted white.
Luthuli House has stepped into the faction-ridden Western Cape ANC, raising the possibility that the provincial leadership will be replaced.
Productions at this year’s festival highlight the state of the nation and offer a salve for its adolescent soul, writes Cilnette Pienaar.
The museum — small, intimate and in the very spot where it all took place — remembers the man, the remarkable history of heart transplant surgery.
A Grahamstown court will soon decide if a body of government may withdraw advertising from a newspaper simply because the authorities do not like it.