Western Cape, South Africa News

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.

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.

The aim of the computer resource centre is to bring education and knowledge to the community.

SunSpace, started by a group of University of Stellenbosch students, has had a difficult and uncertain three years, filled with unfulfilled government promises and contracts that failed to materialise.

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.

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

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.

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.

Swazis are heading for parliamentary elections in August, presenting pro-democracy groups with the dilemma that all liberation movements eventually face whether to participate in or boycott state structures and institutions.

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

It's been a long time coming, but learning an African language will soon be compulsory in schools.

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.

With their refugee status being annulled, Rwandans fear what is in store for them if they go back.

The Rwandan high commissioner to South Africa this week sought to assure returnees that they will be fully integrated into society and disputed some of their concerns about their safety and allegations of a clampdown on civil liberties in that country.

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

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.

Transport Minister Ben Martins is failing in his attempts to show government did proper consultations on e-tolling, the Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance said on Thursday.