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Cape Town hosts rugby’s 2012 Junior World Championships

Cape Town and the nearby university town of Stellenbosch are to host rugby
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Cape Town Bike festival cancelled

The Cape Town Bike Festival (CTBF), scheduled to take place at the Cape Town Stadium from 16-18 December, has been cancelled due insufficient sponsorship and poor ticket sales. The CTBF
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Cape Town’s Table Mountain among

Table Mountain was listed among the Seven Wonders of the World by the Swiss-based New7Wonders Foundation on 11 November. The win was the result of a global competition in which hundreds of millions of...
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Cape Town’s Table Mountain among

Table Mountain was listed among the Seven Wonders of the World by the Swiss-based New7Wonders Foundation on 11 November. The win was the result of a global competition in which hundreds of millions of...
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New direct flights to Cape Town

Air France has launched seasonal direct flights between Cape Town and Paris. The French company said it would consider extending the service all year-round if there is consistent demand throughout...
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Cape Town community TV goes global

Cape Town's community television channel CTV has begun streaming worldwide via the internet, enabling Cape Town expats to view television programmes from back home. It also has a daily news slot at 19...
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Cape Town’s new diamond museum

The Cape Town Diamond Museum has recently opened in the city
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South Africa targets pollution

South Africa is to place limits for carbon emissions on the country
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Cape Town named World Design Capital 2014

Cape Town has been named World Design Capital 2014 by the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design on the final day of its congress in Taipei, on 26 October. The first African city t...
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Desmond Tutu celebrates 80th birthday in Cape Town

Activist and retired bishop Desmond Tutu celebrated his 80th birthday on 7 October in St George
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James Bond fever in Cape Town

Cape Town is hoping that the new James Bond movie is to be filmed in the city. The 23rd Bond film was supposed to have been shot on location in India but was abandoned when official sanctions took...
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Shark attacks earlier than usual in Cape Town

A British swimmer, who refused to heed warnings about the presence of sharks, was attacked by a Great White Shark off Fish Heok at the end of September. He was saved after two local men, Hugh Till and...
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Cape Town wins top tourism award

Cape Town won the title of Best Destination in Africa at the World Tourism Awards on 19 September, marking the seventh time the city was awarded the honour. With the exception of 2004 and 2007, when t...
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Cape Town’s Diwali Festival

The Cape Town Diwali festival takes place at Ratanga Junction in Century City, a suburb ten km northeast of the city centre, on 15 October. An annual event on the Hindu calendar, also known as the fes...
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Cape Town train station to be upgraded

The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) is planning a R1bn phased-redevelopment of Cape Town
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Oil slick in Cape Town

A thick oil slick has washed up on a one-kilometre stretch of beach at Blouberg in Cape Town on 3 September. The crude oil had leaked from the Seli 1 bulk-carrier ship which ran aground near Table Bay...
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Cape Town shark warning

The city of Cape Town has issued swimmers with shark warnings and has drawn attention to the seasonal increase in the presence of Great White Sharks around in-shore areas along the Western Cape. T...
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Extra flight Cape Town and Singapore

An additional weekly flight between Cape Town and Singapore has been announced by Singapore Airlines (SIA). The extra flight will take effect from 30 October, bringing the company
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Cape Town’s Eastern Boulevard after Mandela

Cape Town has renamed Eastern Boulevard in the city centre after Nelson Mandela, on the occasion of the statesman
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Cape Town to host Grand Prix?

Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone has hinted that Cape Town could host a Grand Prix
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South African votes in municipal elections

South Africa goes to the polls on Wednesday 18 May to renew councils for all municipalities throughout the country. In Cape Town and across Western Cape province the governing Democratic Alliance...
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Zuma leads AU peace delegation to Libya

An African Union (AU) delegation led by South African president Jacob Zuma has met Libya's Muammar Qaddafi in the country's capital Tripoli in an attempt to broker a ceasefire between the rebels and t...
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