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Armed robberies in South Africa increase.
Latest crime figures show a significant rise in the number of armed robberies in South Africa. The police service says that attacks on cash delivery vans in the year to April 2006 were up 74 per cent...
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Protecting swimmers and sharks.
Draft legislation shielding swimmers from attacks by great white sharks in the waters around Cape Town while at the same time protecting the endangered species has been presented to parliament. The po...
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Community TV launched in Cape Town.
Cape Town now has its own community television station following the launch of Cape Town Community Television Collective (CTCTV) on 16 September. Established by a group of local media and arts organis...
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Somalis in Cape Town attacked.
Yet another Somali citizen has been murdered in the latest in a series of attacks apparently targeting the refugee community in Cape Town.
South African Broadcasting Corporation reports that on 7 Se...
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Comic book on HIV/AIDS for deaf people.
Deaf South Africans can now learn about HIV and AIDS, sexual abuse and sexual rights in a specially designed comic book called Are your rights respected? The 16-page manual follows a group of students...
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Some 500 players from nearly 50 countries will gather in Cape Town 23-30 September for the fourth edition of the annual Homeless World Cup. As many as 100,000 spectators are expected to cheer the play...
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Responsibility for the power cuts that plagued Cape Town and the surrounding area from November 2005 to March 2006 has been laid firmly at the door of the national electricity provider Eskom. In a rep...
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Unsound low-cost houses to be repaired.
The Cape Town Community Housing Company (CTCHC) has at last acknowledged what people living in its houses have known all along: that they are not structurally sound, the daily newspaper Cape Argus rep...
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Cape Town to improve public transport.
Cape Town authorities have announced plans for a rechargeable smart card system for trains, buses and minibus taxis as part of preparations for the football World Cup in South Africa in 2010. Proposal...
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Cape Town city mayor Helen Zille has given the go-ahead to the construction of a new three billion rand stadium at Green Point near the city centre on condition that the national government foots most...
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First N2 Gateway homes allocated.
The first homes in the controversial N2 Gateway housing project in Cape Town have been handed over to residents amid complaints about the handling of the high-profile scheme.
Protests characterised t...
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Mary Watson wins Caine literary prize.
Cape Town writer Mary Watson has been awarded the prestigious Caine Prize for African writing for her short story Jungfrau about social relationships in post-apartheid South Africa. The tale, told fro...
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Former South African president and ikon of the anti-apartheid struggle Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela also affectionately known as Madiba or mkhulu (grandfather) - turned 88 on 18 July.
Birthday wishes f...
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Iranian artists Nasser Palangi and his wife Farideh Zariv are painting a mural in Wale Street in the Bo-Kaap district of Cape Town to thank residents for their hospitality during the recent The Hand o...
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Malays and Islamic leaders to meet in Cape Town.
Thousands of Malays and Islamic leaders, businesspeople, academics and cultural activists will be in Cape Town 30 July-3 August for a meeting titled Opportunities on trade, tourism and education betwe...
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Potsdam waste water treatment plant opens.
Water supplies in Cape Town have been given a boost following the opening of the refurbished Potsdam waste water treatment plant in late June. The facility in Milnerton, on the coast northeast of the...
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Cape Town to uphold refugees rights.
The city of Cape Town has made a formal pledge to uphold the rights of refugees and asylum seekers in the metropolis and help them integrate into society. Many of the people who are seeking asylum hav...
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Cape Town-based Zimbabweans are to hold a day of prayer for their country on 8 July. The event, organised by the newly formed Zimbabwe Social Forum, will take place at His People Centre at N1 City fro...
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Boulders Beach wins architecture prize.
The information centre and entrance kiosk to the Boulders penguin colony near Simons Town has received the international architecture award from the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design...
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On 16 June South Africa marks the so-called Soweto uprising in 1976, when students in the Soweto township near Johannesburg took to the streets against a law obliging them to study in Afrikaans. The p...
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State transport utility Transnet and associated unitholders are to sell at least 74 per cent of their stake in the prestigious Victoria & Alfred Waterfront as part of a strategy to dispose of non-core...
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Beggars targeted by Cape Town.
The city authorities have introduced tough new measures against asking for money in public. People are now required to have written permission from the city council in order to collect money on the st...
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There may be disruptions to transport and other services across South Africa on 2 June as workers down their tools in support of striking security workers in the country. In the Cape companies likely...
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Two Capetonians have been selected to train with Britains celebrity chef Jamie Oliver as part of his Fifteen Foundation programme for disadvantaged young people, the local paper The Star reports. Zima...
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Capetonians and tourists can now use a handy map detailing local fashion retailers, manufacturers and designers. Produced by the Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers Union (SACTWU) for the re...
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National electricity company Eskom has decided to issue colour-coded warnings during television advertising breaks to notify consumers when power supplies are running low, the BBC news website reports...
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City braced for more violence.
There is tension in Cape Town after a pay protest march by 5,000 striking security guards affiliated to the South Africa Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) on 16 May degenerated into violence...
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Tenders are now open for the creation of a new departure terminal at Cape Towns international airport as part of a R1.2 redevelopment for the 2010 football World Cup in South Africa. The successful bi...
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Heads of state and representatives of the business community and civil society are to gather in Cape Towns smart new international convention centre 31 May-2 June for the World Economic Forum on Afric...
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The mayoral committee has given its backing to an energy-purchase agreement with Darling Wind Farm north of Cape Town, paving the way for the use of wind power in the city from 2007. The recommendatio...
