The Nelson Mandela Museum is to run a year-long festival to celebrate the 90th birthday of the revered former president, Kader Asmal has announced.
Cape Town’s Kelvin Grove club, which several years ago clashed with health authorities over anti-smoking legislation and won, has now banned smoking.
A new executive director will soon take over the reins of the National Arts Festival. Ismail Mahomed will succeed Lynette Marais.
News on mobile: Guy Berger writes about a bid to crack cellphones for future journalism.
The Expropriation Bill could seriously damage South Africa’s international creditworthiness, former president FW de Klerk said on Wednesday.
Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana staunchly defended himself in Parliament on Wednesday against charges that he made racist remarks.
Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana raises hackles with his description of Chinese South Africans and Chinese employers.
Backup electricity can be a costly exercise, writes Barrie Terblanche
If the Cape Town Book Fair is to mean something beyond an exercise in retailing it needs to seize opportunities to be unique, writes Darryl Accone.
Let this be a turning point where together we recognise and transcend the limits of citizenship by extending protection to all who live in South Africa.
The liquidator trying to recover money owed by MPs says the Speaker of Parliament is not giving the full story.
”We know that the guy who stabbed Mcebisi was standing with a group of people including the Paarl Regional Executive Council”
Seven world premieres of new South African
drama will be staged at the main festival this year. Brent Meersman reports.
Artist Lolo Veleko speaks to Kwanele Sosibo about the meaning of Wonderland.
Volunteer psychologists in Cape Town speak of a sense of profound hopelessness among foreigners. Men came forward for therapy more readily than women.
Eastern philosophies of Islam come face to
face with Western lifestyles in a new exhibition by Capetonian twins. Yazeed Kamaldien reports
They must roll up their sleeves, muck in
and colour-up to make an impact. Without policies rooted in principles and values, power is worthless.
SA on Saturday beat Italy 26-0 in their one-off Test match at Newlands, but there is little doubt that the visitors will see this as a moral victory.
Heavy rains have left more than 4 000 people homeless in the Cape Peninsula as two more people are reported killed in KwaZulu-Natal floods.
Andrew Worsdale finds some of the reasons Trevor Steele Taylor is South Africa’s most radical, informed and adventurous film festival programmer
Three toddlers who were found murdered in Rosemore, George, may have been killed with a blunt object, Western Cape police said on Friday.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu said on Friday he hoped ANCYL president Julius Malema would have the courage to apologise for his ”kill for Zuma” comment.
Having beaten Wales, South Africa get another chance to test their strength in depth before the Tri-Nations when they tackle Italy on Saturday.
Mine owners will face stiffer fines and harsher terms of imprisonment for breaches of mine health and safety rules under a new Bill.
African staff in the department of Western Cape Premier Ebrahim Rasool are concerned about ”systemic racism” in the department.
South African Communist Party (SACP) stalwart and former journalist Brian Bunting died at his home in Rondebosch, Cape Town, on June 18.
Springbok coach Peter de Villiers has made six changes to the team that dominated Wales last week ahead of Saturday’s one-off Test against Italy.
SACP stalwart and former journalist Brian Bunting died at his home in Rondebosch, Cape Town, on Wednesday at age 88, the party said on Thursday.
Stand-in skipper Victor Matfield has vowed that the Springboks will be ”merciless” in Saturday’s one-off Test against Italy at Newlands.
Police swooped on the home of an alleged drug dealer and perlemoen poacher — knowing that the occupants were likely to be home.
A storm has erupted over a report quoting Cape Cobras coach Shukri Conrad as saying three Proteas players were not good enough to play for the Cobras.
One of South African rugby’s most successful coaches has returned home to take on the team he coached to 17 consecutive Test wins.