Western Cape, South Africa News

South Africa, short of accommodation for nearly half a million fans expected to flock to next year's soccer World Cup, plans to use cruise liners as floating hotels.

The first line of "defense" at the 400 Iraqi police checkpoints in Baghdad are small wands with antennas that supposedly detect explosives, but which U.S. officials say are about as useful as Ouija boards.

Pointing fingers at the administration of former president Thabo Mbeki was not helpful in dealing with South Africa's HIV/Aids problems, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu said yesterday.

Visitors to South Africa's premier holiday destination who are worried about becoming victims of the country's high crime rate could find themselves instead robbed by a more furry kind of felon: baboons.

Visitors to South Africa's premier holiday destination who are worried about becoming victims of the country's high crime rate could find themselves instead robbed by a more furry kind of felon: baboons.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has called an extraordinary meeting of the world governing body's executive committee following the incidents which occurred during the World Cup play-offs. At the top of the list of topics to be discussed is likely to be Thierry Henry's handball in the France versus Republic of Ireland game.

Dr Andrew Marshall, from the Environment Department at the University of York, first spotted the animal while surveying monkeys in the Magombera Forest when he disturbed a twig snake eating one.

By Ofentse Mokae 22 November 2009 The strife in the Congress of the People continues with a group of Cope members convening a grudge meeting in Langa, Cape Town this afternoon.

A gun was placed to his head and he was threatened with death by an adviser to Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, mercenary Nick du Toit has told Rapport.

Diski dance, a sequence of moves based on soccer tricks, is the official World Cup dance - and the city is out to set a world record for the most people doing it at the same time at the launch of the Cape Town Summer Festival this weekend.

Jabulisile works the streets in Hillbrow, a rough area normally avoided by tourists, but just a stone's throw from one of the World Cup stadiums that she hopes will bring in visitors looking for sex.

Saturday, 21 November 2009, 1:08 pm Press Release: United Nations The United Nations refugee agency today condemned the latest xenophobic attacks that have driven some 3,000 foreigners, including refugees and asylum-seekers from Zimbabwe, from a community in South Africa.

Stellenbosch University student Jacobus Eksteen will hear on October 13 when he will be tried for allegedly raping and killing fellow-student Erin van Rensburg.

JOHANNESBURG, 18 November 2009 - The number of Zimbabweans displaced after some of their shacks in an informal settlement outside De Doorns, a farming town about 140km from Cape Town, South Africa, were attacked and demolished by local South African residents, has risen to about 3,000, said the South African Red Cross Society.

Cape Town - Up to 2 700 Zimbabwean asylum seekers have set up a temporary "safety camp" in a rural South African town following attacks on their shacks in a dispute about jobs, a human rights group said on Wednesday.

A group of tourists, including a West Midlands couple, has launched legal action against a South African safari park after being trapped by a pride of lions.

A group of British tourists has launched legal action against a South African safari park after being trapped by a pride of lions, it was revealed.

View the gallery Natasha Prince Staff Reporter Scores of De Doorns residents, most of them farmworkers, ripped down shacks belonging to Zimbabweans this morning, accusing them of "stealing our jobs". The Zimbabwean families were forced to pack up their belongings and seek refuge in a community hall in the Hex River Valley town, which is about two ...

Jennifer Hudson is set to play Nelson Mandela's former wife Winnie in a forthcoming film.

A plan by Malawi to offer prostitutes low-interest loans to start small businesses in return for abandoning sex work is generating controversy in a country where women are disproportionately affected by high rates of poverty and HIV.