Western Cape, South Africa News

FILE PHOTO: Xolile Mngeni , one of the men accused of murdering honeymoon bride Anni Dewani, has a brain tumour.

The Institute for Accountability in Southern Africa has asked the Public Protector to probe any possible irregular expenditure of public money in the "brown envelope" scandal.

A South African model who successfully sued over claims that she slept with Pete Doherty said she has given birth to the chaotic rocker's baby.

I've been very bad at arranging swanky holidays recently. That is, proper breaks, without the children.

We've all heard of ageing rock stars making a comeback, but what's with the Muppets ? Kermit the frog, who first took shape in an American college art class in the mid-1950s, is back on the chatshow circuit.

President Jacob Zuma delivers his State of the Nation address during the opening of Parliament in Cape Town.

For the penultimate act of Die Antwoord's sold-out show at the Trocadero on Thursday, the self-described South African "futuristik, flame-throw-flow-freeking, zef rap-rave krew" approached the stage's edge.

Some 13 months ago I sat inside one of the hi-tech seminar rooms at the Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT in Accra listening to an expert on matters extractive: oil, gas, minerals.

When Guy Lieberman attended the ROI Community gathering in Jerusalem last year, an international conference created by Jewish American philanthropist Lynn Schusterman to help foster Jewish social innovation, he was impressed.

The Southern African Development Community Double Troika is this weekend meeting in Cape Town to discuss political and economic matters.

Nelson Mandela smiles during a lunch to Benefit the Mandela Children's Foundation as part of the celebrations of the opening of the new One&Only Cape Town resort on April 3, 2009 in Cape Town, South Africa.

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"Nationalisation is not the ANC or government policy Our policy is a mixed economy," Zuma told the business and diplomatic community in Cape Town less than 12 hours after his State of the Nation address.

To celebrate, we've rounded up a beautiful batch of recent images by one of Eye Candy's all-time favorite photographers; Rick Day .

When the astonishing Golden Rhinoceros was discovered on this arid hilltop in 1933, many whites in South Africa refused to believe that something so exquisite could have been crafted by a black African civilization.

The affordable housing is aimed at people who earn too much to qualify for RDP housing but not enough to persuade banks to grant home loans.

Members of Uganda's gay community lead a choir during a memorial service for David Kato, a slain prominent gay rights activist, on his first death anniversary in Kampala January 26, 2012.

Two gunmen accused of murdering Anni Dewani on her honeymoon have been told they must remain in custody while a High Court decides whether the bride's husband Shrien will be extradited from the UK to stand trial with them, a South African court heard today.

Links between city brothels, gangs, drugs, nightclubs and businessmen are emerging as underworld figures in Cape Town are rounded up.

Thick black smoke billows from a Cape Town bound train at the Kuilsriver station yesterday .