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New Government Speeches (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Minister in the Presidency Mr Collins Chabane accompanies their Majesties King Harald V and Queen Sonja of Norway to Cape Town during their state visit in South Africa 24 November 2009 Minister in the Presidency, Mr Collins Chabane in his capacity as Acting Minister of International Relations and Cooperation and Minister for Arts and Culture, Ms Lulama Xingwana, supported by senior government officials...
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Boston Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
CAPE TOWN, South Africa - Visitors to South Africa's premier holiday destination who are worried about becoming victims of the country's high crime rate could find...
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IOL (Free subscription) | yesterday
South Africa's communications authority has said that CTV, Cape Town's only community television channel, is one of several stations set to lose their broadcasting frequencies.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | yesterday
CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- 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.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
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.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
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.
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Reuters (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - 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 over jobs, a human rights group said Wednesday.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Fearing a resurgence of xenophobic attacks, around 2,500 Zimbabwean migrants have taken refuge in government buildings in De Doorns, a farming town about 140km from Cape Town, South Africa, after some of their shacks in an informal settlement were attacked and demolished, said a police official.
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France 24 (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
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". 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 offenders as part of its rehabilitation programme. The show will...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Police have unearthed a cache of ammunition in the back garden of a Cape Town home.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
The draw for next year's Soccer World Cup taking place on December 4 in Cape Town - is likely to give hoteliers in the inner city a boost after the Mother City's gloomiest winter season in many years.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Covering the landmark Athlone towers with a giant South African flag will detract from efforts to maintain a rural atmosphere in the area which is home to Cape Town's model initiation site, says the city.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
The police are searching for a Cape Town security guard accused of murdering a colleague late on Sunday night.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Cape Town and the World Cup draw await, but there are those who still haven't earned the right to join the party. The tragic death of German goalkeeper Robert Enke, who had been a sure bet to be in South Africa next June, has yet again brought forth the bitter irony that football shouldn't be a matter of life and death, a quite sobering perspective for me and you.