South Africa’s government is looking at measures to curb the effect of rising food prices on poor people in the country. Provisions under consideration include increasing cash payments to South Africans already on benefit and giving food vouchers to those who...

On 13 April hundreds of residents of Sea Point on the Atlantic Seaboard staged a protest over plans to build a hotel and shopping centre on the promenade. The demonstration was led by local voluntary association Seafront For All (SEAFA), which...

Residents of the district of Manenberg on the impoverished Cape Flats have a new green space for recreation and cultural events thanks to a project to improve living conditions in the area. Established on a former wasteland, the gardens include an...

Work is due to begin shortly on a long-awaited film studio complex just outside Cape Town. The R460 million project, formally known as Dreamworld, is expected to take 18 months to complete. Located in Faure off the N2 motorway southeast of...