Cape Town News
New telephone dialling system for South Africa.
As of 16 January it will become mandatory to dial the full ten-digit telephone number including the three-digit area code even for local calls. Until now a person making a fixed line to fixed line cal...
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Traffic restrictions around Adderley Street.
Adderley Street in central Cape Town is closed to traffic between Strand and Bureau streets for the annual Christmas night market until 30 December. Darling Street is also closed to traffic at Plein...
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South Africa's lower house of parliament has approved a controversial bill allowing same-sex marriage, making the country the first in Africa and one of only five in the world to do so. The civil unio...
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Cape Town prepares for tourist season.
Nearly one million visitors are expected to arrive in Cape Town during the last quarter of this year and the first quarter of 2007, with December and January being the busiest months. City authorities...
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Cape Town archbishop wins peace prize.
The Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, Njongonkulu Ndungane, has been presented with the annual Peacemaker award from the commission on peace of the episcopal diocese of Washington in the United States...
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The Ambassador of Conscience 2006 award presented by Amnesty International has gone to anti-apartheid leader and former president of South Africa Nelson Mandela. The annual award went to the 88-year-o...
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Hundreds homeless after shack fire.
Some 600 people living in Fish Hoek south of Cape Town have been left homeless after a fire destroyed around 150 shacks in the area, South African Press Association (SAPA) reports. The blaze broke out...
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Armed robberies in South Africa increase.
Latest crime figures show a significant rise in the number of armed robberies in South Africa. The police service says that attacks on cash delivery vans in the year to April 2006 were up 74 per cent...
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V&A Waterfront sells for R7 billion.
In what is the biggest property deal in South African history, London-based private property company London & Regional Properties, Istithmar, the investment arm of the government of Dubai, and a high-...
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Protecting swimmers and sharks.
Draft legislation shielding swimmers from attacks by great white sharks in the waters around Cape Town while at the same time protecting the endangered species has been presented to parliament. The po...
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Community TV launched in Cape Town.
Cape Town now has its own community television station following the launch of Cape Town Community Television Collective (CTCTV) on 16 September. Established by a group of local media and arts organis...
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Responsibility for the power cuts that plagued Cape Town and the surrounding area from November 2005 to March 2006 has been laid firmly at the door of the national electricity provider Eskom. In a rep...
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Unsound low-cost houses to be repaired.
The Cape Town Community Housing Company (CTCHC) has at last acknowledged what people living in its houses have known all along: that they are not structurally sound, the daily newspaper Cape Argus rep...
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First N2 Gateway homes allocated.
The first homes in the controversial N2 Gateway housing project in Cape Town have been handed over to residents amid complaints about the handling of the high-profile scheme.
Protests characterised t...
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Former South African president and ikon of the anti-apartheid struggle Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela also affectionately known as Madiba or mkhulu (grandfather) - turned 88 on 18 July.
Birthday wishes f...
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Potsdam waste water treatment plant opens.
Water supplies in Cape Town have been given a boost following the opening of the refurbished Potsdam waste water treatment plant in late June. The facility in Milnerton, on the coast northeast of the...
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Cape Town-based Zimbabweans are to hold a day of prayer for their country on 8 July. The event, organised by the newly formed Zimbabwe Social Forum, will take place at His People Centre at N1 City fro...
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On 16 June South Africa marks the so-called Soweto uprising in 1976, when students in the Soweto township near Johannesburg took to the streets against a law obliging them to study in Afrikaans. The p...
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State transport utility Transnet and associated unitholders are to sell at least 74 per cent of their stake in the prestigious Victoria & Alfred Waterfront as part of a strategy to dispose of non-core...
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Beggars targeted by Cape Town.
The city authorities have introduced tough new measures against asking for money in public. People are now required to have written permission from the city council in order to collect money on the st...
