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New Cape Town stadium back on course.
The city council has approved a R2.9 billion budget for the new 2010 World Cup football stadium at Green Point, paving the way for the start of construction. The go-ahead came after international bank...
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The 2007 edition of the Cape Town book fair is to take place at the international convention centre from 16-19 June. The fair, now in its second year, will see over 300 events including readings, book...
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The R300 freeway near Delft northeast of the city centre is the most dangerous stretch of road in Cape Town according to a recent Metro police report. Last year it saw nine deaths and 264 accidents, m...
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Cape Town faces sewage crisis.
City officials have warned of an imminent sewage crisis in Cape Town if improvements are not made to waste water treatment plants in the city. Mayoral committee member for trading services Lionel Roel...
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Name-change for Cape Town airport?
Western Cape provincial authorities have announced plans to rename Cape Town
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Ghana celebrates half a century
This year Ghana celebrates 50 years as an independent nation after becoming the first country in colonial sub-Saharan Africa to gain its freedom in 1957. Ghanaians across the world are hoping to use t...
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Darling wind farm under construction.
The construction of the Darling Wind Farm north west of Darling in the Western Cape is now underway following an official sod-turning ceremony in mid-February. The farm is a project of the Central Ene...
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South African jazz musicians are to hold a concert in Cape Town this weekend to raise awareness about the problem of violent crime in the country. The event, organised by
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Cape Town station to get overhaul.
The Cape Town station precinct is to get a facelift in time for the football World Cup in South Africa in 2010. The R90 million project, which is still at the planning stage, includes improving securi...
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Independent Democrats join Cape Town government.
The Independent Democrats (ID) have decided to abandon their former opposition and join Cape Town
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Hot weather is causing problems in the Western Cape, where daytime temperatures are reaching the high 30s, and even the low and mid 40s in some places. In Paarl, just east of Cape Town, where temperat...
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As of 17 January South Africans can enjoy a new quarterly magazine, Proud!, published under the auspices of Proudly South African, a campaign to promote South African companies, products and services...
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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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The Cape Town government is urging residents to cut back on the use of water in a bid to conserve the precious resource. The measures, incorporated in two bylaws passed in 2006, include a permanent ba...
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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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New anti-AIDS strategy for South Africa.
The South African government has unveiled new plans to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS in the country, where 5.5 million people out of a total population of 47 million are living with the deadly virus....
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2010 World Cup schedule announced.
The 2010 football World Cup in South Africa will take place between 11 June and 11 July, the international football authorities have said. The International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA)...
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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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Democratic Alliance stands firm in Cape Town.
The African National Congress (ANC) has backed down on its bid to change the system of government in Cape Town in a move that would have given the national ruling party more representation in the only...
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Mango low-cost airline for South Africa.
South Africa has a new no-frills airline to compete with existing low-cost carriers 1Time and Kulula.com. Mango, a subsidiary of South African Airways, will begin by operating flights between Johanne...
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Fight over city government continues.
Tension is running high in Cape Town as South Africas ruling African National Congress (ANC) continues its efforts to sideline the city government led by Helen Zille of the national main opposition pa...
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False Bay environmental centre.
Cape Town has a new environmental education centre in False Bay ecology park south of the city centre. The centre on the southern shores of Zeekoevlei, reputedly South Africas largest freshwater lake,...
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Cape Town could get a direct rail link to its international airport as part of broad plans under consideration by the city councils transport portfolio committee, the Cape Argus reports. Other proposa...
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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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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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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...
