Cape Town, South Africa News

By Victoria John Bullet-proof electric fences, motion and smoke sensors, watch dogs and police on quad bikes are just some of the multi-million rand security measures being put in place in an upmarket Durban suburb for President Jacob Zuma - within walking distance of his friend and erstwhile financial adviser Schabir Shaik.

The City of Cape Town is making a stand against road offenders in a way that seems sneaky but in fact is necessary.

The new crime busting unit, the Hawks, have swooped in for their third kill in the Western Cape in just 24 hours.

Table Mountain is one step closer to being named one of the New Seven Wonders of Nature.

By Aziz Hartley and Sapa Work at Cape Town's World Cup stadium ground to a halt, while it slowed down at other 2010 projects as construction workers began a wage strike on Wednesday.

COPE members in various provinces were "waiting with bated breath" for the outcome of a meeting of the party's top brass to tackle the party's leadership woes.

By Francis Hweshe Some of the survivors of a horrific bus crash that killed seven people and left 50 badly injured say they will seek compensation from the bus company, SA Roadlink.

Work on stadiums for next year's World Cup was halted today when 70,000 South African builders launched an indefinite strike.

I F IT wasn't for the parched earth, dry timbers, tin roofs and cloudless blue skies, you could almost believe that these photographs of stone engine houses and Methodist chapels were taken in Cornwall.

Post mortems were being carried out on Wednesday on the eight victims of an SA Roadlink bus crash in Beaufort West, Western Cape police said.

Acting public works department director general Solly Malebye on Tuesday refuted media reports that former MPs still living in parliamentary villages in Cape Town were refusing to move out.

A TEEN was held prisoner and repeatedly raped by her father after tracing him to South Africa.

Human Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale instructed the Department of Housing to rectify issues raised in a damning Auditor General's report into a Cape Town housing project "as a matter of urgency". 'Incoherence' delays Gateway report Gateway project sparks official concern "The Minister is concerned at the scale of non-compliance issues that are ...

The case bears similarities to that of Josef Fritzl, the Austrian who kept his daughter imprisoned for 24 years A woman's dream of tracking down her father turned into a nightmare when he allegedly kidnapped her and kept her as a sex slave.

About 70 000 South African construction workers are expected to strike on Wednesday, halting work across the country including on stadiums for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, after a court refused to ban the action.

By Matthew Richmond Preliminary survey results of bee colonies released on Tuesday point to the unabated spread of a disease, American foulbrood , throughout the Western Cape and beyond.

THE City of Cape Town has earmarked almost R900 million to upgrade the metropole's electricity network in the coming financial year.

Western Cape doctors on Friday agreed to call off their strike and go back to work, but are still not happy with the government's pay offer.

HEADLINES author/source:Financial Gazette published:Sat 27-Jun-2009 Mpofu, banned from travelling to the US and EU, directed the Chamber of Mines to shun the event in protest Staff Reporter Mining corporations operating in Zimbabwe on Tuesday defied an order by Mines and Mining Development Minister, Obert Mpofu, to boycott an international mining ...

In a bid to save tens of thousands of baby seals being killed for their fur, Namibia animal rights activist are rushing to raise millions of dollars to buy out a fur company that buys the pelts.