Western Cape, South Africa News

South African soccer and tourism officials are warning hotels, airlines and restaurants not to hike prices during next year's World Cup.

The DA called for a probe into ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema's handing out of food parcels in Cape Town.

Westinghouse Electric Co. has been awarded a $30 million contract to provide fuel for a nuclear power plant in South Africa.

Fifa president Sepp Blatter was fulsome in his praise for Western Cape premier Helen Zille at today's welcoming function in Cape Town.

Three papers scheduled for publication in the January issue of the Journal of Hospital Infection , published by Elsevier, suggest that copper might have a role in the fight against healthcare-associated infections.

By Staff Writer Police have arrested six Nambian refugees after an "extensive investigation" into a series of farm robberies.

A person walk past infront of soccer balls on display at the city of Cape Town, South Africa, Tuesday, Dec.

MSF, an independent international humanitarian organisation, has launched a website - www.msf.org.za/2009worldaidsday/ - that tells the stories of people in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, who are living with HIV and Aids.

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.

By Vuyo Mabandla and Lynette Johns A Cape Town traffic cop, who was trying to stop a minibus taxi driver from fleeing arrest, was dragged several metres down the road with his arm trapped in the taxi window.

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.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa a ' 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.

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.