A new coin bearing the face of Nelson Mandela has been unveiled in South Africa ahead of the 90th birthday of the country’s most celebrated citizen on 18 July. Five million R5 coins featuring a smiling portrait of the anti-apartheid icon...

Over 5,000 people have been left homeless in the Cape Town area following flooding due to heavy rainfall, local media sources report. More than 1,000 shacks in informal settlements on and around the Cape Flats were flooded during heavy downpours on...

Winter has arrived in Cape Town and with it the start of what is commonly refereed to as the “flood season”. June-August are typically characterized by cold temperatures, strong winds and heavy rainfall in the Western Cape, which last year led...

The death toll in the anti-immigrant violence that rocked South Africa in May has risen to at least 62 according to police sources. Earlier the figure had been given as 56. The victims were mainly from Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe, although South...

An alcohol-free luxury hotel targeted at Middle Eastern visitors is under construction in central Cape Town. The 140-room five-star facility is being built in the BoKaap district, which was first settled in the early 19th century by freed Muslim slaves of...

Over 10,000 immigrants in the Cape Town area have been displaced from their homes by anti-immigrant violence, which erupted in the city on 22 May. Most of the victims are now sheltering in special “secure sites” across the metropolis, where they...

The wave of anti-immigrant violence that is sweeping across South Africa reached Cape Town on 22 May. Mobs attacked Somalis and Zimbabweans and looted their shops and homes in DuNoon township north of the metropolis and in Knysna to the south....

South Africa’s army is to be deployed to help quell the wave of anti-immigrant violence that has swept across the country in recent days. The decision comes after attacks on foreigners spread from the Johannesburg area to the east coast city...

South African president Thabo Mbeki has condemned as “shameful and criminal” the recent attacks on immigrants in the country, which so far have left at least 22 people dead and a further 10,000 seeking refuge in police stations, churches and other...

The N1 is the most dangerous road in Cape Town in terms of fatalities according to the city’s annual traffic report based on statistics from 2005. The Greater Cape Town stretch of the N1 running northeast out of the city centre...