Cape Town, South Africa News

African countries are ready to conclude the Doha Round on the basis of current proposals, but warn against any attempt to renegotiate them at the seventh ministerial conference of the World Trade Organisation that opens in Geneva today.

By Fiona Forde A solid security plan is in place for Friday's Fifa draw as hordes of police and army officers, private security personnel and intelligence agents descend on Cape Town, determined to stage a seamless event after the fiasco of the Confederations Cup.

Google says South African Street View should be ready for World Cup, but some officials fear it could be a 'gift to thieves' Google's Street View headaches around the world A Google mapping car in of Bedminster, UK.

Cape Town - Next year's Soccer World Cup is safe in the hands of South Africa's law enforcement agencies, national police commissioner Bheki Cele said on Friday.

A man and a woman were injured when their car was hit by a train in Stellenbosch on Saturday, said Cape Town paramedics.

By Clayton Barnes The stage is set and the cameras ready to beam Fifa's final draw to the world.

By Caryn Dolley The Internet is making it "very easy" for syndicates to share stolen bank card information, according to Jerome Hardenberg of the police's Commercial Crimes Unit.

In more than 34 years as a judge, he has not been as deeply concerned by anything as he was by the recent comment of a South African deputy minister of police that police officers should shoot and "kill the bastards". "We need to be concerned when people in responsible positions say irresponsible things," said Judge Deon van Zyl, inspecting judge ...

The risk of credit card fraud could increase during the 2010 Soccer World Cup, the South African Banking Risk Information Centre warned on Thursday.

About 400 residents of Atlantis, near Cape Town, burnt tyres and barred police from evicting people from an orphanage in the area on Thursday, said a community member.

South Africa, short of accommodation for nearly half a million fans expected to flock to next year's soccer World Cup, plans to use cruise liners as floating hotels.

The first line of "defense" at the 400 Iraqi police checkpoints in Baghdad are small wands with antennas that supposedly detect explosives, but which U.S. officials say are about as useful as Ouija boards.

Pointing fingers at the administration of former president Thabo Mbeki was not helpful in dealing with South Africa's HIV/Aids problems, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu said yesterday.

Trade and investment from Norway are expected to grow substantially as a result of this week's state visit by King Harald V and Queen Sonja, accompanied by a delegation of more than 100 business leaders.

Visitors to South Africa's premier holiday destination who are worried about becoming victims of the country's high crime rate could find themselves instead robbed by a more furry kind of felon: baboons.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has called an extraordinary meeting of the world governing body's executive committee following the incidents which occurred during the World Cup play-offs. At the top of the list of topics to be discussed is likely to be Thierry Henry's handball in the France versus Republic of Ireland game.

A plan by Malawi to offer prostitutes low-interest loans to start small businesses in return for abandoning sex work is generating controversy in a country where women are disproportionately affected by high rates of poverty and HIV.

Diski dance, a sequence of moves based on soccer tricks, is the official World Cup dance - and the city is out to set a world record for the most people doing it at the same time at the launch of the Cape Town Summer Festival this weekend.

Jabulisile works the streets in Hillbrow, a rough area normally avoided by tourists, but just a stone's throw from one of the World Cup stadiums that she hopes will bring in visitors looking for sex.

Saturday, 21 November 2009, 1:08 pm Press Release: United Nations The United Nations refugee agency today condemned the latest xenophobic attacks that have driven some 3,000 foreigners, including refugees and asylum-seekers from Zimbabwe, from a community in South Africa.