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Work is due to begin shortly on a long-awaited film studio complex just outside Cape Town. The R460 million project, formally known as Dreamworld, is expected to take 18 months to complete. Located in...
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Energy crisis in South Africa.
There is mounting anger in South Africa over the latest power crisis, which has already cost local businesses an estimated R2 billion and is affecting other countries in the region.
State electricit...
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The number of cockroaches in Cape Town is on the rise according to a report in the local daily newspaper
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House sales in Cape Town hit record figures.
Last year was a record year for residential property sales in the Cape Town area according to a report in the daily newspaper
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Horse unit to fight crime in Cape Town.
Twenty-two mounted police are to take to roads and beaches in Cape Town as part of efforts by the Western Cape province to counter crime in the metropolis over the busy festive and summer season. The...
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Jacob Zuma president of the ANC.
Controversial figure Jacob Zuma is the new leader of the ruling African National Congress (ANC). South Africa
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Fibre optics cable for Cape Town.
The city council is to build a fibre optic network linking its main administrative buildings to improve telecommunications in the city. Municipal employees will be the primary users of the increased b...
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Heart of Cape Town museum opens.
Residents and visitors to Cape Town can now trace the history of the world
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The festive season got underway in Cape Town on 2 December with the traditional switching-on of the Christmas lights in Adderley Street in the city centre.
This year
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The newly formed local environmental group What-On-Earth-Is-Happening (WOE) is organising a clean-up of the Cape Town
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2010 World Cup preliminary draw.
Final preparations are being made in Durban for the preliminary draw to determine the qualifying groups in the 2010 football World Cup in South Africa, which will be held in Durban on 25 November. The...
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Telecommunications conference in Cape Town.
Roughly 3,000 professionals representing Africa
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Cape Town law professor killed.
Students, colleagues and the wider legal community have expressed their anger and grief over the murder of professor Mike Larkin in Cape Town
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The death on 2 November of a Zimbabwean asylum seeker outside the home affairs offices at the Foreshore has rekindled debate about the treatment of refugees in the Mother City. The deceased, Adonis Mu...
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Cape Town gets tough on beach crime.
The city council is to appoint a task force to tackle crime on the city
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There have been strong reactions across the African continent to the assassination of South African reggae star Lucky Dube during an attempted carjacking in Johannesburg on the evening of 18 October....
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New research lab for Cape Town.
The International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) has opened an international research laboratory in Cape Town. The facility, located at the University of Cape Town, will have...
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The municipal swimming pool in Washington Street in Langa township on the Cape Flats is to get a facelift before opening for the summer season. The 250,000 rand project involves sealing the walls, pav...
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24 September is national heritage day, a public holiday, when South Africans celebrate their diverse cultural heritage. It is also the third edition of national braai day on which people all over the...
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The city council is considering allocating nearly R1 million for the remaining nine months of the current financial year to manage the baboon population in the Cape peninsula. The money will be used t...
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Renowned Cape Town gardens to get facelift.
Company Gardens in central Cape Town are to get a facelift over the coming year. Plans for the overhaul of the site between Government Avenue and Queen Victoria Street include the conversion of the Bo...
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UNICEF opens sub-office in Cape Town.
The South African chapter of the United Nations
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More lifeguards for Cape Town.
Cape Town is to get 160 more lifeguards in an attempt to improve safety on the city
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Security boost for Table Mountain.
Table Mountain National Park (TMNP) authorities have asked the city council for R1.34 billion annually over the next four years to improve safety on the mountain. The request follows a recent spate of...
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Shortage of burial space for Cape Town’s poor.
Undertakers serving township communities in Cape Town are currently having problems burying the dead following the closure of the Khayelitsha cemetery in the heart of the impoverished Cape Flats at th...
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South African fuel strike ends.
Fuel industry workers have ended their eight-day strike after employers and unions bowed to public opinion and the government and reached a compromise deal over disputed pay. However, the fuel shortag...
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Cape Town residents may have studied the outside of the imposing Victorian neo-classical parliament building in Plein Street many times with a mixture of detachment and awe. Now there is a chance to l...
