Cape Town, South Africa News Archives

Flights around South Africa's Cape Town and the Cape Peninsula will be restricted during the final draw for the 2010 World Cup, the South African Press Association cited the police as saying on Monday.

The National Council for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has written to world soccer controlling body Fifa about plans to slaughter cattle at each of the World Cup stadiums.

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.

Former Stellenbosch student Jacobus Eksteen, accused of raping and killing fellow-student Erin Van Rensburg, is to go on trial in the Cape High Court next year.

JOHANNESBURG, 18 November 2009 - The number of Zimbabweans displaced after some of their shacks in an informal settlement outside De Doorns, a farming town about 140km from Cape Town, South Africa, were attacked and demolished by local South African residents, has risen to about 3,000, said the South African Red Cross Society.

Cape Town - Up to 2 700 Zimbabwean asylum seekers have set up a temporary "safety camp" in a rural South African town following attacks on their shacks in a dispute about jobs, a human rights group said on Wednesday.

A group of tourists, including a West Midlands couple, has launched legal action against a South African safari park after being trapped by a pride of lions.

A group of British tourists has launched legal action against a South African safari park after being trapped by a pride of lions, it was revealed.

View the gallery Natasha Prince Staff Reporter Scores of De Doorns residents, most of them farmworkers, ripped down shacks belonging to Zimbabweans this morning, accusing them of "stealing our jobs". The Zimbabwean families were forced to pack up their belongings and seek refuge in a community hall in the Hex River Valley town, which is about two ...

Jennifer Hudson is set to play Nelson Mandela's former wife Winnie in a forthcoming film.

About 1 000 immigrants, mostly Zimbabweans, on Tuesday fled informal settlements as violence against foreign nationals flared up in the Western Cape following tensions over seasonal jobs, police said.

A mom gains more than 100 pounds after having a baby, and becomes suspicious of her husband after she finds a woman's number in his pocket; a Russian man makes a shocking discovery about his love interest.

Dressed in identical orange uniforms, inmates at South Africa's maximum-security Pollsmoor prison sing and act for the cameras in a new reality series where they vie to be crowned "Jail Star". Photograph by: . The Cape Town prison, best known for gang violence in one of the world's most violent countries, has launched a TV talent search for ...

Two matric pupils were killed and three others injured in an accident in Pinelands, Cape Town on Monday, the Western Cape education department said.

By Donna M. Airoldi Programs heading to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa next year will have a new hotel to choose from for luxury accommodations: the Taj Cape Town.

Opposition political parties will be outraged if President Jacob Zuma grants a full pardon to his friend, fraudster Schabir Shaik.

A privately-owned Lightning fighter jet has crashed at an airshow at the Overberg Air Force Base east of Cape Town.

Margaret Easterbrook travels in style from Cape Town to Pretoria, one of the world's great train journeys.

The former students at the centre of the Reitz race row will probably make a public apology before the end of this month, University of the Free State rector Jonathan Jansen said.

Carbon trading, as promoted by the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism , has become a key global strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

SOUTH Africa's deputy police minister has urged officers to "shoot the bastards", backing calls for tougher action against criminals days after police shot dead a three-year-old boy.

South Africaa s President Jacob Zuma has called for closer international co-operation among the nations of the world to close the space for international drug syndicates.

Consider a scenario of a trigger-happy police force getting out of hand before crime does.

Government will invite all stakeholders to have their say on how best to achieve a more competitive exchange rate, Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel said on Tuesday.

I thought I knew Table Mountain. After five years as a foreign correspondent in South Africa, I thought I had rambled and scrambled over pretty much all of this rocky wilderness half a mile in the sky above Cape Town.

Former president Thabo Mbeki on Monday conveyed his condolences to the family of ex-intelligence minister Ronnie Kasrils whose wife, Eleanor, died at the weekend.

By Caryn Dolley Despite the persistent rainfall and chilling temperature, 80 percent of this year's 34 015 Discovery Cape Times Big Walk entrants braved the elements and took to the wet streets on Sunday.

By Clayton Barnes Terminal 2010, the multimillion-rand central terminal building under construction at Cape Town International Airport, is to be opened on November 7 - months before schedule, the Airports Company of South Africa says.

South Africa's relations with China are conducive to the country's plan to halve unemployment by 2014, the labor minister said on Saturday.

The City of Cape Town's Electricity Department's Technical Support Services Branch is the first municipal entity with a division, Electrical Support Services, to win the national productivity award for the public sector.

Cape Town, South Africa -- A man joyriding with his South African Air Force friend cut the trip short when he accidentally pulled the eject lever.

South African petrochemicals group Sasol expects to raise its upstream oil and gas production to 55,000 barrels per day oil equivalent in the next three years from 38,000 bpd, a senior official says.

The Final Draw for the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa will take place in Cape Town on 4 December 2009 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre .The entertainment lined up for the 90-minute live show will include the Soweto Gospel Choir, Beninoise singer-songwriter Angelique Kidjo and Johnny Clegg.

Western Cape Premier Helen Zille has "applied sanctions" against employees implicated in taking part in the unlawful Erasmus Commission that aimed to probe alleged irregularities in the City of Cape Town.

South African Cape Town International Airport's readiness has been put to the test shortly before Terminal 2010 -- the new multi-million-rand central terminal building -- opens, the Cape Argus reported on Sunday.

The interim board of the South African Broadcasting Corporation is contesting a R1-billion contract, the SABC reported on Tuesday.

A passenger enjoying a civilian joyride accidentally cut the trip short when he ejected himself from the plane after grabbing the eject lever while trying to brace himself.

Gallery: Zille at the Chocolate Studio By Nikita Sylvester Western Cape Premier Helen Zille has been described as many things during her political career, but "sweet" is probably not among them.

The National Union of Metalworkers today called for the nationalisation of the wealth of South Africa"s richest man, Patrice Motsepe and ANC struggle hero, Tokyo Sexwale.

As the plane rolled into another stomach-churning manoeuvre, the passenger was probably wishing that he was somewhere else.

The Alwyn Vintcent, the 50-year-old pilot steam tug, was, we thought, on its way to Australia after having been bought and partially refurbished by a tugboat enthusiast.

By Luvuyo Mjekula Cape Town Mayor Dan Plato was confronted by stick-wielding shack dwellers, who threatened him over the city's failure to install electricity in their homes, when he visited Overcome Heights in Steenberg on Sunday.

Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille must take responsibility for the City of Cape Town's financial mismanagement of the Bus Rapid Transit system, the ANC said on Sunday.

By Clayton Barnes Obey the law or lose your licence - that's the warning from Transport Minister S'bu Ndebele to motorists ahead of next year's World Cup.

By Leila Samodien More than two years after the multimillion Fidentia scandal erupted, fraud accused Arthur Brown has moved into a mansion on an estate in the Hout Bay Valley.