Capturing the essence of ‘Mandela’
MSNBC - 2 hours ago
At dawn on Sunday, February 11, after driving through the glorious vineyards of Cape Town, I arrived at the prison gates to find many photographers already …

Studio contruction ready to roll
Independent Online, South Africa - 7 hours ago
By Lindsay Dentlinger The long-awaited construction of the Cape Town Film Studios, known formerly as the Dreamworld project, is set to get off the ground in …

‘He was never off duty’
Independent Online, South Africa - 8 hours ago
By Lindsay Dentlinger There were emotional scenes at a wreath-laying ceremony for police officer Lukas Nell, who was gunned down in Tamboerskloof, Cape Town …

New office for Cape asylum seekers
Independent Online, South Africa - 7 hours ago
Asylum seekers from Southern African countries in Cape Town must in future bring their applications to home affairs’ Nyanga offices, instead of Barrack …

I will resign - Rasool
News24, South Africa - 13 hours ago
Cape Town - On the day that beleaguered Western Cape Premier Ebrahim Rasool confirmed that he was asked to resign, the ANC said more intervention was coming …
Premier gets tough on Tik use BuaNews Online (press release)
Don’t axe Rasool, says MJC Independent Online
ANC should act now to save face Mail & Guardian Online
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The Full Monty” arrives in Cape Town soon
ArtslinkNews, South Africa - 9 hours ago
“The Full Monty – The Broadway Musical” will have a strictly limited season in Cape Town until 17 August, where after it will transfer to the Johannesburg …

Joomla! Day in Cape Town
Bizcommunity.com, South Africa - 9 hours ago
Day Cape Town, South Africa, an event to be held 19 July 2008, at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. Joomla! Days offer an excellent opportunity …

Le Roux judgment in August
The Times, South Africa - 7 hours ago
… Springbok cricketer Garth le Roux and his accountant Deon van Heerden is to be delivered on August 15, a Cape Town regional magistrate said today. …

Metro cops’ trial postponed
Independent Online, South Africa - 6 hours ago
The trial of two Cape Town metro police constables charged with corruption and attempted murder was postponed for a week on Thursday. …

Over 50% of emerging, small businesses targeted by criminals
BuaNews Online (press release), South Africa - 9 hours ago
By Bathandwa Mbola Johannesburg - Over 50 percent of emerging and small businesses in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban experienced one or more incidents …

Constitutional judges not beyond reproach
The Times, South Africa - 23 hours ago
Mtshepana Tembe, Cape Town Individual leaders of the ANC, like any citizen, have a constitutional right to express their opinions . It is therefore wrong, …

PIC Solutions Expands Relationship Management
Creditman, UK - 13 hours ago
Cape Town, 17 July 2008 – PIC Solutions, the leading credit risk management company in the Africa and Middle East region, has expanded the relationship …

Well-dressed scam artist targets older women
Independent Online, South Africa - 11 hours ago
By Kate Douglas Older women appear to be becoming a popular target for money scams in and around Cape Town. One 84-year-old woman told the Cape Argus how …

Football365.co.za

Ultimate birthday gift
The Times, South Africa - 23 hours ago
The teenager turns 19 on Saturday when Chiefs play Manchester United at Newlands in Cape Town, and he could get no better present than a chance to play …
Another milestone for Khune News24

Man U name team for SA
Independent Online, South Africa - 11 hours ago
The United squad that arrives in Cape Town on Friday morning for Saturday’s game against Kaizer Chiefs at Newlands, was named after a training session on …
United bring big guns to SA SuperSport

Number of abandoned babies soars in Cape
Independent Online, South Africa - 11 hours ago
Over the past 10 days in Cape Town a day-old baby was found drowned in a toilet at Claremont train station; a four-year-old was found wandering at the Du …

Ferguson reveals United bid
AFP - 3 hours ago
"We have made a bid for one player who would enhance us a great deal," Ferguson said before boarding United’s flight to Cape Town for their pre-season tour …

Quiet Carl is comic genius
People’s Post, South Africa - 7 hours ago
Australia’s number-one-selling theatre comedian, Carl Barron, is in Cape Town at the Baxter Theatre Concert Hall at 20:15 nightly from today until Sunday 20 …
Reviewed: Carl Barron live iAfrica.com

Cop ‘not wearing bullet-proof vest’
The South African Star, South Africa - 9 hours ago
By Lindsay Dentlinger and Lavern de Vries Cape Town police Inspector Lukas Nel, 35, was not wearing a bullet-proof vest when he was shot dead while on …

Not all smiles for b/bash
News24, South Africa - 48 minutes ago
Cape Town - It seems not everyone is happy with their sought after invitations to various birthday bashes for Madiba’s 90th on Friday. …

‘When is daddy coming home?’
News24, South Africa - 14 hours ago
Cape Town - The widow of a police inspector said her "fairy tale is in pieces" after her husband was shot dead in Tamboerskloof in Cape Town on Tuesday. …

Robben Island plagued by troubles
International Herald Tribune, France - 21 hours ago
AP CAPE TOWN, South Africa: The former prison on Robben Island where Nelson Mandela spent 18 years is an international tourist icon. …

The Aids church
guardian.co.uk, UK - 14 hours ago
As you walk into the church of JL Zwane on a township nine miles from Cape Town, aside from the bright yellow walls, one of the first things you notice is …

Car Repair Workshop opened by Drive Africa
Live-PR.com (Pressemitteilung), Austria - 2 hours ago
17.07.2008 21:24:27 May 2008 saw the inauguration of Drive Africa’s mechanical car repair workshop in Cape Town, South Africa. The number one car doctor is …

Leatt Corporation To Sponsor 2008 South African Motocross Grand Prix
MarketWatch - 7 hours ago
The company’s operations and research and development of the core products currently take place at Leatt Corporation’s offices in Cape Town, South Africa. …

New face for Epic
Hermanus Times, South Africa - 10 hours ago
Vermaak continues: “The 2009 Epic will therefore have a prologue on the mountains in the greater Cape Town area and the first stage will start on Sunday …

PetroSA gives relief to flooding victims
City Vision, South Africa - 11 hours ago
Flooding in Cape Town and the Western Cape has displaced an estimated 20 000 people. Concern for the affected communities last week moved PetroSA to …

ROI Media explains why 9 out of 10 Websites in South Africa are …
Live-PR.com (Pressemitteilung), Austria - 2 hours ago
Ecommerce growth has been dismal and we are yet to see a Cape Town-style “The Cool Hunter” or a Joburg-based “Amazon” – It’s still a concrete jungle with a …

iAfrica.com

Small business maul
iAfrica.com, South Africa - 15 hours ago
The survey covered 446 small and emerging businesses, almost all owned by previously disadvantaged groups in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban. …

No school yet for children of xenophobic violence
Sowetan, South Africa - 15 hours ago
Cape Town’s young victims of xenophobic violence missed the beginning of the school term this week because they had no transport from their remote camps. …

iAfrica.com

Smart Living Drama Fest
iAfrica.com, South Africa - 12 hours ago
The City of Cape Town will host its first ‘Smart Living’ YES Drama Festival in partnership with Artscape’s High Schools Drama Festival on Friday 18 July. …

WP fights for survival
City Vision, South Africa - 11 hours ago
SHERAAZ Maarman, who was known as Cape Town’s Muhammed Ali in the 1950s, has a dream – to once again make Western Province amateur boxing a force to be …

Steel cartel exposed
Independent Online, South Africa - 3 hours ago
The application was received following raids at Cape Town Iron and Steel Works, Highveld, and the South African Iron and Steel Institute on 19 June. …

Yahoo! Eurosport

Monty’s 100 still on track
Keo.co.za, South Africa - 13 hours ago
Percy Montgomery will still play his 100th Test at Newlands against the All Blacks in Cape Town, with number 99 being against the Pumas in Johannesburg the …
Boks set to wage war and pace The Australian
Springboks to try to shut down Giteau The Age
Butch James singles out Matt Giteau for special attention Super 14

Easier (press release)

Festival fever goes global
Easier (press release), UK - 7 hours ago
Travelsphere feature two days at the Hermanus Whale Festival, with an included trip by boat as part of a 12-day tour of Cape Town and the Garden Route from …

Picking Up the Jazz Vibe
Cape Business News, South Africa - 23 hours ago
EMPOWERMENT group Sekunjalo Investments is hoping to catch some big notes by cashing in on tourism opportunities linked to the Cape Town International Jazz …

It’s not noise, it’s the sounds of a city
Tonight, South Africa - 12 hours ago
… with sleeping pods and eating cubicles like the ones they have in the terrifying artists impressions of future Cape Town in the Cultural History Museum. …

Fancying a Fiat
Mail & Guardian Online, South Africa - 16 hours ago
The Fiat 500 I drove recently, at its launch in Cape Town, wasn’t hand-crafted by an enthusiast as the drag-racer I lusted after was, nor was it rough …

The life of a troublemaker
Independent Online, South Africa - 6 hours ago
He gets five years in prison, which he begins to serve on Robben Island prison off Cape Town. In 1964, he and seven other ANC members are convicted of …

iAfrica.com

LaLesso’s summer collection
iAfrica.com, South Africa - 6 hours ago
LaLesso are open for Cape Town Fashion Week in August, a fashion spectacular not to be missed. Watch out for the new range available thereafter. …

Zille: bullet-proof vests too heavy for women
Independent Online, South Africa - 9 hours ago
… she told a media briefing at Parliament, in a week in which two on-duty police officers were shot and killed in separate incidents in Cape Town. …

Long walk to raise awareness of the plight of elderly
The Herald Eastern Cape, South Africa - 15 hours ago
TWO men, from Gauteng and East London, have taken on the long road in an effort to raise awareness for the elderly, hoping to walk from Cape Town to Port …

Tulbagh waste pours into water supply
Independent Online, South Africa - 9 hours ago
This river feeds into the Voëlvlei Dam, which provides the City of Cape Town with drinking water. In March, Democratic Alliance MPL Gareth Morgan said the …

Cape Peninsula University of Technology Advertising Students Use …
Emediawire (press release), WA - 13 hours ago
… Media Copywriting as part of the National Diploma in Marketing, at Cape Peninsula University of Technology’s (CPUT) Cape Town and Bellville Campuses. …

Gerald Davies on the adventure of the Lions
Independent, UK - 11 hours ago
“There was someone out there, living in Cape Town, that I had been friendly with at Loughborough (his English college). He was Cape Coloured and I knew I …

Cape schools rugby preveiw 19 July 08
Supersport, South Africa - 8 hours ago
Oudtshoorn should find themselves pretty evenly matched with Cape Town visitors Tygerberg High, who haven’t enjoyed a happy 2008. Oakdale tackle Paul Roos …

Rosslee in Holland for coaching upgrade
Kickoff, South Africa - 11 hours ago
Ajax Cape Town coach Craig Rosslee has left the country to attend a coaching assignment with Dutch side Ajax Amsterdam. The Urban Warriors’ boss John …

Moral Regeneration advocates for shared values
SABC News, South Africa - 11 hours ago
Mkatshwa delivered the keynote address at a Moral Regeneration Summit underway in Cape Town. He says one of the most shared values is the right to life. …

ITInews - Insurance Times and Investments News

Rode’s Report on the SA Property Market 2008:2
ITInews - Insurance Times and Investments News, South Africa - 11 hours ago
Unfortunately, figures in other metros did not fare as well, the lowest being 8% achieved collectively by Pretoria and Cape Town. …

iAfrica.com

Time is money
iAfrica.com, South Africa - 14 hours ago
… in service as well as the implementation of self-service check in terminals at OR Tambo International, Durban and Cape Town International airports. …

Crime crippling small business — study
Business Day, South Africa - 15 hours ago
A total of 446 small and emerging businesses, almost all owned by blacks, in Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, were surveyed. …

Football365.co.za

Ertugral wary of classy United
Football365.co.za, South Africa - 15 hours ago
Ertugral’s side clash against the English and European champions in the opening match of the Vodacom Challenge in Cape Town on Saturday. …

EP u-16 girls are crowned national squash champs
The Herald Eastern Cape, South Africa - 15 hours ago
EASTERN Province went through a tough week at the PricewaterhouseCoopers squash interprovincial in Cape Town last week, with the men‘s A side likely to …

Army base boss blamed for deaths
The Herald Eastern Cape, South Africa - 15 hours ago
The findings will be sent to the Directorate of Public Prosecutions in Cape Town for a decision on whether or not to prosecute. The men, David Blouw, 51, …

Xiniwe a dark horse in Spar series
Sowetan, South Africa - 15 hours ago
Van Schalkwyk positioned herself at the top when she came sixth last month in the Durban leg of this race, but unnoticed, young Cape Town runner Zintle …

Interpreter’s dialect delays fraud case
Sowetan, South Africa - 15 hours ago
… before Magistrate Amrith Chabilall on allegations that they are the kingpins in a credit and debit card scam that targeted businesses in Cape Town. …

AFP

United quartet miss South African tour
AFP - 1 hour ago
United play Kaizer Chiefs at Cape Town’s Newlands Stadium on Saturday, then face Orlando Pirates in Durban on July 22 before playing one of the two South …

Consumers hold on to optimism
Business Report, South Africa - 16 hours ago
Durban and Cape Town had index scores of 73.8 and 72.9, respectively. Durban consumers experienced the largest fall in confidence - by as much as 12 points …

Telegraph.co.uk

Sir Alex admits he’s made a bid for ‘one player who could improve …
guardian.co.uk, UK - 5 hours ago
After their trip to Cape Town, United will move on to Durban and Pretoria before a flying visit to Nigeria. They will then return home to face Espanyol, …
Ferguson ready to swoop Sky News
Ferguson confirms bid for new player Independent

GOLDEN GIRL
Dubbo Daily Liberal, Australia - 20 hours ago
BY ANNA YEO Megan Dunn has won her third gold medal in as many events at the World Junior Cycle Championships in Cape Town, South Africa, …
WORLD CHAMPION Dubbo Daily Liberal

Revised MIDP to depart from export certificates
Business Report, South Africa - 10 hours ago
By Donwald Pressly Cape Town - The new motor industry development programme (MIDP) is likely to take the form of a subsidy to support the production …

Africa Makes Uneven Progress in Improving Health Care for Women …
Voice of America - 3 hours ago
Voice of America English to Africa reporter Unathi Kondile in Cape Town looks at some of the problems and successes of the effort to reduce child and …
South Africa Struggles to Curb Maternal Mortality Voice of America
Good Governance, Improved Medical Training Help Improve Maternal … Voice of America

‘Confidence in economy hit by Rasool saga’
Independent Online, South Africa - 13 hours ago
A source in the Dullah Omar (Cape Town Metro) region said: "There was no forewarning. It is not so much about the decision, but how loyal members of the …

No plan to ‘massacre’ premiers
Independent Online, South Africa - 14 hours ago
Addressing a meeting of asset managers in Cape Town on Wednesday, ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe said the party had also looked into problems in three …

FW’s wine farm for sale for R35m
The Times, South Africa - 8 hours ago
In 2006, De Klerk splashed out about R30-million for a home in Fresnaye, one of Cape Town’s most exclusive suburbs. At the time, Danie Keet, a spokesman for …

Much more lively at Leeds?
News24.com, South Africa - 2 hours ago
Cape Town - Recent history suggests robust potential for a result when South Africa lock horns with England in the second cricket Test at Headingley from …

Canada.com

Wishing Madiba happy birthday in oh-so-many ways
Bizcommunity.com, South Africa - 9 hours ago
In addition to the two anchors, live crossings will be made to the following special venues: Robben Island off Cape Town, Drakenstein Prison (formerly …
South Africa: Nelson Mandela - SA’s 2010 Envoy AllAfrica.com
Mandela, at 90, remains a powerful figure Mail & Guardian Online

SA tour a timely escape for United
Independent Online, South Africa - 13 hours ago
Fit-again captain Gary Neville also travels after 18 months of injury problems and he is likely to figure as United play games in Cape Town, …

Sanjay Gupta’s Acid Factory has no female lead
Hindustan Times, India - 14 hours ago
About the shooting locations, the director said: "In India, we will shoot in Ramoji Film City in Hyderabad and all the outdoors will be canned in Cape Town …

Borehole lands town on world map
Hermanus Times, South Africa - 10 hours ago
This follows after Cape Town-based groundwater consultants Umvoto sunk the borehole five years ago when water blew out at more than 100 litres/second - one …

Zaki hip-hops back to town
The Province, Canada - 12 hours ago
… mother Scottish/English — Ibrahim’s upbringing was split primarily between Canada’s west coast and Cape Town, with a couple of other points in between. …

Professor: SA Judiciary is under attack
Independent Online, South Africa - 12 hours ago
But his view on this issue was strongly opposed by Paul Ngobeni, of the University of Cape Town, who said the Constitutional Court had "messed up" in the …

Virtual Tours of South Africa in Official Google™ Earth Layer
Newswire Today (press release), UK - 13 hours ago
Internet users can now enjoy and explore South Africa virtual tours of places like Robben Island, Soweto, Cape Town and the Kruger National Park all with …

Standard

Trouble in paradise: It’s time to rethink tourism
Standard, Kenya - 6 hours ago
On his official visit to South Africa where he was leading a Government delegation to the World Economic Forum that was held in Cape Town, Mr. Odinga took …

Teenage pregnancy shock
Hermanus Times, South Africa - 4 hours ago
A recent study among boys and girls in 20 of the most prestigious schools in Cape Town revealed that teenagers in the Western Cape are at the forefront in …

Artist feels a successful career begin to take shape in his hands
The Times, South Africa - 23 hours ago
Earlier this year, Potina exhibited his ceramic creations at a design fair in Cape Town, which led to his first big sale — to an art collector in …

Mantashe vows ANC will keep inflation targeting
Business Day, South Africa - 14 hours ago
CAPE TOWN — African National Congress (ANC) secretary-general Gwede Mantashe yesterday moved to calm investors’ fears that a new ANC government would …

Land Bank likely to ask treasury for cash injection
Business Report, South Africa - 15 hours ago
By Donwald Pressly Cape Town - The Land Bank was expected to ask the treasury for a capital injection to finance a turnaround, acting chairman Herman van …

Mantashe to investors: policy will stay on track
Business Report, South Africa - 15 hours ago
By Donwald Pressly Cape Town - The ANC government’s economic policy will remain firmly on track, although policies will be tweaked to take into account the …

Lipstick sales shine even brighter in tougher times
Business Report, South Africa - 15 hours ago
By Tom Robbins Cape Town - Lipstick sales were holding up at Clicks as women continued to spend on this "affordable" luxury despite the downturn that had …

Mboweni Criticizes Investec for Querying Price Data (Update1)
Bloomberg - 3 hours ago
Cape Town-based Investec Asset Management, the country’s second-largest private money manager, said on July 15 that the May inflation rate of 10.9 percent …

Game on for alliance
People’s Post, South Africa - 9 hours ago
Marais, the former mayor of Cape Town and later premier of Western Cape Province, says he returned to politics only two months ago after a long break, …

Judith Mason exhibits on Saturday
Hermanus Times, South Africa - 4 hours ago
She taught painting at the same University and occasionally at other institutions, eg Michaelis School of Fine Art in Cape Town. …

Africa: The Limits and Possibilities of Transitional Justice
AllAfrica.com, Washington - 8 hours ago
… citing the fact that the Cape Town principles recognize as child soldiers the girls "recruited for sexual purposes and for forced marriage [17]. …

Chinese, and proudly South African
The Times, South Africa - 23 hours ago
… a child: those “Made in China” Electric Sparks in the blue-and-white boxes that I bought at KY Ling’s shop, 1600km away in Retreat Main Road, Cape Town. …

Around the World
Orland Park Prairie, IL - 9 hours ago
The entire ship seemed to fall in love with Cape Town. It was very westernized," she said. "I also loved Hong Kong. The skyline put New York to shame. …

Desmond Tutu will lecture on campus in October
Michigan Daily, MI - 29 minutes ago
16, 2008, 4:48pm Desmond Tutu, 1984 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and the first black Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, will lecture on campus October 29. …

Readers not confident in SA’s 2010 readiness
Independent Online, South Africa - 6 hours ago
They then try and catch a flight to Cape Town for the final. There is a bun fight at the airport because of conjestion and delayed domestic flights. …

iAfrica.com

Cast your vote!
iAfrica.com, South Africa - 15 hours ago
Part of the Table Mountain National Park on the Cape peninsula, the flat-topped mountain towers impressively over the city of Cape Town. …

Africa: Africa’s Liberation - Rethinking Youth in the 21st Century
AllAfrica.com, Washington - 8 hours ago
Whilst conducting my graduate research in peri-urban Cape Town or what are popularly referred to as the Cape Flats, this is an assertion that often emerged. …

ANC ‘would accept’ Zuma guilty verdict
Business Day, South Africa - 14 hours ago
CAPE TOWN — The African National Congress (ANC) would accept a guilty verdict against its president, Jacob Zuma, on corruption charges but the judiciary had …

iAfrica.com

Darling fest selling fast
iAfrica.com, South Africa - 12 hours ago
Situated 55 minutes north of Cape Town, Darling is known for its gorgeous spring spectacle of wild flowers, wonderful wine estates, vibrant community and of …

Court application angers Brett’s widow
Independent Online, South Africa - 14 hours ago
… payout following her husband’s death and owns two homes in Cape Town - has reached an undisclosed settlement with the trustees of her husband’s estate. …

South Africa: Bid to Sue Stratton for Support for Kebble’s Children
AllAfrica.com, Washington - 9 hours ago
The court bid to secure Stratton’s shares in a Cape Town property is to establish the jurisdiction of the South African courts so Roger Kebble can sue …

Red Cross AMS Of South Africa Orders Four AW119 Ke Helicopters
Rotorhub (press release), UK - 15 hours ago
The SA Red Cross Air Mercy Service (AMS) is a non-profit organisation with bases in Cape Town, Oudtshoorn, Durban, Richard’s Bay, Nelspruit, …

Aljazeera.net

Sarkozy reaches for the stars
Aljazeera.net, Qatar - 29 minutes ago
Meanwhile, Kouchner, echoing Harold Macmillan, the former British prime minister’s, famous ‘Winds of Change’ speech in Cape Town at the beginning of African …

Zimbabwe Crisis Talks Pause Pending Clarification Of AU Mediation Role
Voice of America - 1 hour ago
Political analyst Hermann Hanekom of Cape Town, South Africa, told reporter Blessing Zulu of VOA’s Studio 7 for Zimbabwe that expanding the mediation team …

Peter Beard, Uncensored: A Rollicking Interview with the …
National Post, Canada - 3 hours ago
1955 in Cape Town, disembarking from the Arundel castle: Much too much human impact. The urban touch…even Rhodesia produced the same kind of reaction. …

Telegraph.co.uk

Owen Hargreaves misses out on Manchester United pre-season tour
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 6 hours ago
Wayne Rooney and the rest of the United squad, including Carlos Tevez and Ryan Giggs, were on the flight to Cape Town, as was the recuperated Gary Neville, …

Poverty is decreasing - govt
News24, South Africa - 7 hours ago
Cape Town - The income of the poorest South Africans has improved in real terms over the past 14 years, according to government’s 2008 development …