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Emirates Sky Cargo Launches Cape Town Services
Dubai City Guide, United Arab Emirates - 6 hours ago
With the launch of the daily service to Cape Town, the freight arm of the Dubai based carrier will further strengthen its long relationship with South

South Africans galvanized to stop muggings on Table Mountain, Cape
Foster’s Daily Democrat, NH - 8 hours ago
The flat-topped mountain rising above Cape Town is to South Africans what the Eiffel Tower is to the French or the Statue of Liberty to New Yorkers,

Cops react as air passengers vent
Independent Online, South Africa - 5 hours ago
Passengers at Durban Airport, some of them heading for the Two Oceans Marathon in Cape Town yesterday, were so enraged when a Mango flight was cancelled

Lost cats-in-transit roam free
Independent Online, South Africa - 8 hours ago
So many travelling cats have disappeared that an entire colony has sprung up at the Cape Town International Airport, with new arrivals on a weekly basis.

‘Only God can bring change to Zimbabwe now’
Independent Online, South Africa - 4 hours ago
By Mzwanele Mkalipi Zimbabwean refugees living in Cape Town view the March 29 presidential elections in their home country with profound cynicism.

Traders back but still fear cops
Independent Online, South Africa - 7 hours ago
In a statement last week Cape Town mayor Helen Zille said the Town Centre was on City of Cape Town property and the police had no right to force traders off

Fortune gets his marching orders for ‘away games’
The Times, South Africa - 17 hours ago
They returned briefly to Cape Town for their wedding in 2002. Kim’s attorney, Derek Wille, said she instituted proceedings after she didn’t receive a

Play prods but also enriches - This is ‘issues theatre’ with heart
The Times, South Africa - 17 hours ago
In this Magnet Theatre production, directed by Mark Fleishman, head of the University of Cape Town’s Drama Department, the journey of creativity starts with

Scottish, of course
The Times, South Africa - 16 hours ago
Although cruise ships occasionally pay a visit, the easiest way is to get a berth on a fishing boat from Cape Town for the six-day voyage.

Internet downloads lead to bust
Independent Online, South Africa - 4 hours ago
These dramatic disclosures have emerged in court papers as two Cape Town men challenge search and seizure warrants issued by magistrates authorising police

Cop’s skill drought hits cycle of justice
Independent Online, South Africa - 54 minutes ago
Last week, Andrew Merryweather, the young restaurant manager left paralysed after a drunken brawl in Claremont, Cape Town, in September 2006, announced that

Retail Therapist
The Times, South Africa - 16 hours ago
Faaiza, Cape Town Some retailers have figured that, by discreetly expanding their traditional sizes, customers would feel relieved that they have not gained

According to Banksy, graffiti ‘is one of the few tools you have if
The Times, South Africa - 16 hours ago
Speaking at the recent Design Indaba in Cape Town, a visiting grandee remarked how the Christian cross hadn’t evolved much in two millennia.

The Forgotten Children Fighting For Survival In The Shadow of The
Glasgow Sunday Mail, UK - 5 hours ago
I visited the Love And Care creche in Masiphumelele, a shanty town with 30000 residents in Kommetjie, a suburb of Cape Town. Mum-of-three Aurelia Kaitesi

UCT will finish top
iAfrica.com, South Africa - 8 hours ago
The University of Cape Town (UCT) booked themselves home ground advantage in the play-offs of the inaugural FNB Varsity Cup tournament, when they took an

Vaccine trials seek new weapon to fight TB
San Francisco Chronicle,  USA - 2 hours ago
Worcester, a small town among the fruit farms and vineyards outside Cape Town, has staggeringly high TB rates. It is at the fore of international field

Reinventing the wheel
The Times, South Africa - 17 hours ago
It is early February and we are chatting in the doorway of a church hall in Rondebosch, Cape Town. Shahieda talks in a staccato counterpoint of rasped words

Snohomish man lived creative, adventurous life
HeraldNet, WA - 8 hours ago
He had lived in South Africa and sailed as a crew member in a yacht race from Cape Town, South Africa, to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Late in life, he went back

Tripping out
The Times, South Africa - 16 hours ago
Travellers from Africa and the Middle East, particularly Cape Town, Lagos, Cairo, Amman, Kuwait, Addis Ababa, Nairobi and Beirut, are also well-served with

Two die in three-car pile up
News24, South Africa - 8 hours ago
In an incident in Cape Town, four people died and 16 were injured - one critically - on Saturday morning, after a car collided with a minibus taxi in


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Ajax crush Pirates’ hopes with 1-0 victory
SABC News, South Africa - 22 hours ago
Orlando Pirates’ chances of fighting for the league title are slowly diminishing, and today they lost further ground on log leaders Ajax Cape Town.
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British vet caring for pets of township dwellers
Independent, UK - 15 hours ago
By Ian Evans in Cape Town Most British charities working in South Africa’s townships are dealing with the effects of HIV/Aids or crime, but a leading

SA’s Aids vaccine project in crisis
The Times, South Africa - 17 hours ago
The vaccine development unit at the University of Cape Town has committed to do stability testing of these vaccines in SA on a regular basis until 2010 to


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‘Change taking place, but not quick enough’
Hindu, India - 20 hours ago
Presenting a review of the progress on RT since the 2002 Cape Town conference at the ongoing Second International Conference on Responsible Tourism in

My kind of food
The Times, South Africa - 16 hours ago
Giovanni’s in Cape Town, the Chinese shops in Cyrildene and Schwabens Butchery. Your best no-fail recipe. My granadilla mousse; it is both easy and

Easter road deaths rise
Dispatch Online, South Africa - 23 hours ago
Four people died and 16 were injured — one critically — in Cape Town on Saturday morning, in one of several accidents on the country’s roads since the start

All Dried Up
The Times, South Africa - 17 hours ago
We seldom get to see new work on our stages, so the production of Chess that’s currently touring Johannesburg and Cape Town, is interesting.

Critic’s I-view
Smash Hits, India - 23 hours ago
There is enough of a scenic beauty in the movie as it has been shot in beautiful locations of Durban, Cape Town and Mumbai. Speaking about the cast,

Was it your lucky day?
News24.com, South Africa - 18 hours ago
Cape Town - Here are the winning Lotto numbers from the Saturday, March 22 draw. Get the numbers sent directly to your cellphone each Wednesday and Saturday


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Bay, Maritzburg qualify for play-offs
Kickoff, South Africa - 7 hours ago
play-offs for promotion into the lucrative PSL next season after both recorded wins on Saturday against Ikapa Sporting and FC Cape Town, respectively.

‘Peak oil’ - Are we prepared for it?
The Daily Advertiser, LA - 7 hours ago
Chris Skrebowski, a researcher for the Energy Institute in Britain, told the delegates of the Sub-Saharan Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Conference in Cape Town

TRAVEL BRIEFS
Detroit Free Press, United States - 7 hours ago
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — South Africa is enjoying a tourism boom and hopes to attract 10 million visitors by 2010 when it hosts the soccer World Cup.

Art Attack with Carl Collison
City Press, South Africa - 11 hours ago
“It was amazing to see how Apartheid affected everyone on so many different levels,” says the 33-year-old Cape Town native. Many documentary photographers

1968 Birth of a future England captain
CricInfo.com, UK - 12 hours ago
That included eight wickets in the final Test in Cape Town, which England won by an innings. It turned out to be Lohmann’s penultimate Test - he ended with

Is the soul black or white?
Daily News & Analysis, India - 17 hours ago
The novel is loosely based on the adventures of Govender’s uncle, Chin, who left Durban’s Cato Manor district to become a successful hotelier in Cape Town’s

‘He made everyone feel special’
Guardian, UK - 15 hours ago
producing a movie in Toronto, directing a scene in London, lecturing on a screenwriting course in Cape Town, enveloped by his family in a cocoon of love

With stocks, like cars, it’s about resale value 30 years later
The Times, South Africa - 16 hours ago
The old Austin Apache was sold off the pavement in Observatory, Cape Town, for beer money. A vintage Karmann Ghia today goes for … ooh, I don’t know,

Chris just has to be the best
The Times, South Africa - 16 hours ago
Moving from New South Wales to Queensland is a bit like moving from Cape Town to Pretoria, so for him to have gained their respect is remarkable.

Posh new hotel for Hyde Park
The Times, South Africa - 16 hours ago
The UK and Dubai-led consortium, Istithmar, which bought Cape Town’s landmark Victoria & Alfred Waterfront for R7-billion in 2006, is investigating new

Art for justice’s sake
The Times, South Africa - 16 hours ago
The astonishingly beautiful works belong to the SA National Gallery in Cape Town. The Adler shows digital reproductions of them, reworked by the artist,

Domestic game needs new ideas
The Times, South Africa - 16 hours ago
In Cape Town and Bloemfontein the best crowds for the franchise teams were when they played against celebrity sides. At Newlands, 6500 turned up to see the

Bollywood singer Sonu back in SA
The Times, South Africa - 17 hours ago
The singer will perform with Gungan Singh and his father in the Good Hope Centre, Cape Town, on Saturday, in the Durban International Convention Centre on

Wild animals dragged me there
The Times, South Africa - 17 hours ago
long after arriving but the first woman to perform the title role here, way back in 1971, at the opening of the then Nico Malan Theatre in Cape Town.

Game for a stab at Chess
The Times, South Africa - 17 hours ago
For him, this was not only a geographical odyssey — the production played in Joburg and Cape Town and toured Korea and Greece — but a personal one, too.

Bucs league hopes busted
Independent Online, South Africa - 21 hours ago
But if the performance against Royal Zulu is any criterion of Pirates’ best shot, their chances of staying with the likes of Ajax Cape Town,

Big Glen wins Rushaway
Brisnet.com - 14 hours ago
The trifecta totaled $123.20, and the 7-4-8-6 superfecta, with the 36-1 Cape of Storms (Cape Town) in fourth, returned $1412.60.

Messy conditions at New Pier for Day 2 of Oakley Pro Jr.
Global Surf News - 18 hours ago
Chris Leppan (Umhlanga) and Jacob Mellish (Cape Town) also impressed the judges with solid aerial manoeuvres, and boosted their way into Sunday’s final.

Electricity to rise sooner or later
Business Report, South Africa - 9 hours ago
Anton Eberhard of the University of Cape Town’s business school said pricing should be based on the impact it could have on reducing demand.

75 years is Corrs for celebration
Irish Independent, Ireland - 10 hours ago
Patrick and Annette Rocca (in Cape Town), Rosanna Davison and Wes (in Bali — they’re back tomorrow), Valerie Craughwell and husband Philip in Marbella.

God at the goal posts
Mail & Guardian Online, South Africa - 11 hours ago
Another Absa Premiership player, Mkhanyiseli Siwahla (20) of Ajax Cape Town, who made his Premier Soccer League (PSL) debut at the age of 16, attributes his

Emirates expand to Hollywood.
4Hoteliers, Hong Kong - 15 hours ago
The airline has already announced its plans to start services to Cape Town on 30th March plus Calicut, India and Guangzhou, China, both on 1st July of this


Aviation Record

Foreign carriers boost South African services
Aviation Record, Australia - 16 hours ago
US-based Delta Airlines is already flying directly from Johanessburg to Atlanta and this year plans to introduce a New York/Cape Town service.

Preparations in full swing for ocean race stopover in Kochi
Gulf Times, Qatar - 16 hours ago
starting from Alicante in Spain and calling at Cape Town (South Africa), Kochi, Singapore, Qingdao (China), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Boston (US),

Kenya: Athletics - Squad’s Training Peaks in Mt Kenya
AllAfrica.com, Washington - 17 hours ago
With another alternative venue having been found at Ngong - where the team trained ahead of the 1996 World Cross Country Championships in Cape Town - the

Mambo takes Two Oceans
iAfrica.com, South Africa - 9 hours ago
the notorious Cape Doctor had the final say in the outcome of the 56-kilometre Old Mutual Two Oceans ultra marathon in Cape Town Saturday.

Trimming the fat off porky lawmen
Post (subscription), South Africa - 23 hours ago
JP Smith, chairman of the City of Cape Town’s safety portfolio committee, said he was tired of hearing “wise-ass” comments about the size of the officers’

Some people may transmit weaker AIDS virus: Report
MorungExpress, India - 23 hours ago
actual benefit is due to the genetic composition of the virus,” said Williamson, an AIDS researcher at the University of Cape Town who led the study.

It’s time to fight back
The South African Star (subscription), South Africa - 6 hours ago
And the precedent set by the man who challenged the government over its controversial multibillion-rand arms deal, Cape Town businessman Terry

All systems go for SA’s nuclear reactor
Post (subscription), South Africa - 8 hours ago
The project entails building a demonstration reactor at Koeberg outside Cape Town and a pilot fuel plant at Pelindaba near Pretoria.

Leave the cat alone March 10th, 2008

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Exceptional success March 9th, 2008

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