It’s early on Saturday night, and volunteers are topping up their cellphone airtime before setting out to patrol Khayelitsha’s toughest areas.Together with a handful of police…
Western Cape local government minister Richard Dyantyi has ordered Cape Town mayor Helen Zille to reconstitute her mayoral committee to include her African Christian Democratic…
Intervention in Cape Town’s affairs by the African National Congress-led Western Cape government would trigger a constitutional crisis, lawyers have advised the city’s…
South Africa’s ability to fight coastal oil spills has been compromised by the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism’s failure to renew a marine pollution-fighting…
The Democratic Alliance’s Helen Zille, Cape Town’s new mayor, answers 10 tough questions.
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/262374/vote-box_blue.gif" align=left>Deal-making on Cape Town’s future became reality early on Thursday evening as available results…
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/262374/vote-box_blue.gif" align=left>The African National Congress is fighting its toughest election yet. The ruling party’s…
The local councillor does not live in the area, seldom visits and "doesn’t really know what is going on, otherwise they would have built houses" …
The government is making an extra R9,6-billion available to the provinces this year, but at the same time is cracking the whip on accountability and better service delivery. A…
How highly do you rate a positive public profile? Very highly, if you work for the controversial Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) company. Enough, in fact, to swamp a radio poll…
In a move to whip electoral dissidents back into line, the African National Congress is planning to expel 33 members registered as independents.
Cape Town will soon get its first eco-suburb, with 600 homes, showcasing sustainable living — from its own on-site sewage treatment facility to environmentally friendly…
Eskom maintains that recent Cape power outages were "abnormal", but the signs are there that delays and about–turns in transforming the electricity sector are pushing supply…
More than a year after launching the comprehensive plan on sustainable human settlements, aimed at eradicating slums, South Africa still has a backlog of 2,4-million houses.…
About R37million has been transferred from underspending Western Cape government departments to relieve pressure on the beleaguered N2 Gateway Project. About R24million will be…
The Ekurhuleni Metro will become the sixth municipality to receive a credit rating, a tool that will assist it in raising additional finance, through loans or even muni-cipal…
The Democratic Alliance is setting up an internal commission to deliberate on the diversity of its public representatives — an issue highlighted when four of its senior black MPs…
South Africa’s major banks and the government are on a collision course over low-cost housing finance, with the banking sector appearing to backtrack on its R42-billion…
The usual Western Cape black economic empowerment (BEE) beneficiaries were left in the cold as the Cape Town council selected new blood in its second shot at its empowerment…
Racial and gender transformation topped the agenda of the University of Cape Town’s first lekgotla earlier this month and vice-chancellor Njabulo Ndebele has made it the…
