Baboon ambushes woman at Cape Town farmers’ market
By HELEN COLLIS The baboon sat and waited patiently for an easy target leaving a farmers’ market in Cape Town, South Africa He then made his move, and boldly strode up to a shopper and robbed her in...
View ArticleCape Town….errmmmm, South Africa, to become top20 world destination.
CVENTURES AFRICA- South Africa’s tourism minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk, has expressed optimism that Africa’s largest economy may become one of the world’s top tourist destinations by 2020. Speaking...
View ArticleSeven-year-old boy is shot walking to class on his first day at school in...
By Ted Thornhill A gunman opened fire on a boy, 7, and his friend, 17, in the Elsies River area Both were wounded and a 27-year-old man has been arrested The Elsies River district of Cape Town is...
View ArticleARTICLE: JAN VAN RIEBEECK
Sunday, 6 April will be the 362nd anniversary of the arrival of Jan van Riebeeck in the Cape – and of the founding of our mother city – Cape Town. There will, of course, be no celebrations because...
View ArticleMillions pour into Cape Town makeover
Cape Town – Investor confidence in the growth trajectory of Cape Town’s CBD has inspired a major renewal of the city centre worth hundreds of millions and now the Foreshore is set for a major upgrade....
View Article‘Internet scam based in Cape Town’
By Fatima Schroeder Cape Town – An international scam in which women across the globe are defrauded by men they befriend on internet dating sites appears to have its roots in Cape Town, with papers...
View ArticleSnow and heavy rains predicted for Cape Town
By Kieran Legg Cape Town – Table Mountain could be blanketed with snow this weekend as a cold front sweeps through the Western Cape. “Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.” While South Africa’s winter...
View ArticleSouth Africa: Cape Town rocked by racial attacks
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Cape Town in South Africa has been rocked by a wave of racially-motivated assaults, with the authorities warning that the reported incidents “are just the tip of the...
View ArticleAfrikaners protested at the removal of the Rhodes monument already in 1934
It is not the first time the statue of Cecil John Rhodes caused political unease. In 1934 already, the Afrikaner students at the University of Cape Town (UCT) expressed themselves several times over...
View ArticlePowerful winter storm kills at least 9 in Cape Town, South Africa
The strongest winter storm in recent years in Cape Town, South Africa, has claimed the lives of at least nine people. Four of the victims were killed in a fire started by lightning, according to the...
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