Cape Town, South Africa News

For half a century, the novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux has been traversing continents-often crammed into an overcrowded bus or wedged into a packed train car.

It seems apt, given that it is Africa Week, that the Drama Department at the University of Cape Town is closing their winter season with a production of H.I.E Dhlomo's THE GIRL WHO KILLED TO SAVE, also known as NONGQAUSE THE LIBERATOR and presented here as UNONGQAWUSE, THE GIRL WHO KILLED TO SAVE.

The managing director of a local solar energy company that was awarded a R13 billion state contract has been found unfit to run a body corporate.

Fifteen years in, the Encounters Documentary Film Festival is celebrating by opening with a feature film by Riaan Hendricks, The Devil's Lair.

South African beverage manufacturer, The Ceres Beverage Company, approached Cape Town-based strategic design agency, Red Crown, to evaluate and to upgrade their existing Wild Island range of concentrated fruit juice blends.

Over the past six months, I fulfilled three long-term goals: to retire early, to move full-time to Cambria and to travel around the world.

Is Africa rising? Judging by the buzz and optimism of the young business leaders and political trailblazers from across the continent who gathered for the World Economic Forum on Africa earlier this month, the answer is a qualified "yes." The African Leadership Network - co-founded by Stanford graduates Fred Swaniker, now the CEO of the African ... (more)

Khoisan men sing during a poster unveiling of a new name for Cape Town in honour of deceased leader Dawid Kruiper.

8pm. Free. Tel: 021 488 2555. lMusic Alla Kaap featuring Percy Sledge, PJ Powers, The Rockets , The Boyz and Zayn Adam at GrandWest Casino tonight and tomorrow.

Land rights often become the elephant in the room in African agriculture discussions.

From Hugh Exton's portraits to images of Marikana, an exhibition that remembers the Land Act also pays tribute to socially conscious photography.

Welcome to Frankie's Gym, where local gangsters leave their knives at the door and use their fists to pump iron.

Cape Town - Men in opposition benches were part of the apartheid-era army that maimed and killed people, Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said on Thursday.

Most of the 82 primary schoolchildren in the Western Cape and Gauteng have said that media freedom is one thing that should not be touched.

The IFP has won a ward seat from the ANC in Albert Luthuli municipality in a Mpumalanga by-election, IEC results have shown.

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A Cape Flats man has asked for forgiveness after confessing to killing a Claremont woman, The Cape Times reported on Thursday.

Main Gallery: Three-and-a-half metres: committee's choice. The 10 AVA committee members - Stacey Adriaans, Matthew Blackman, Caroline Coates, Chantal Louw, Marilyn Martin, Richard Mudariki, James Nilsen, Chad Rossouw, Elgin Rust, Cobus van Bosch - have each selected a work or works by contemporary artists to be exhibited in their allocated ... (more)

Mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti speaks to supporters as his wife, Amy Wakeland, offers an encouraging pat at the Hollywood Palladium on Tuesday night.

FASHION FORWARD: Afro-pop duo Mafikizolo are reunited, with Nhlanhla Nciza and Theo Kgosinkwe belting it out as the opening act of this year s Cape Town International Jazz Festival held in the Mother City.