The pick of South African bands will be performing in Cape Town on 6 September in the first ever music festival dedicated exclusively to raising money for Zimbabwean refugees. The line-up includes Freshlyground, The Rudimentals and the Dirty Skirts, who will...

Cape Town’s premier wine festival, RMB WineX, takes place in the international convention centre from 10-12 September. The three-day event, sponsored by Rand Merchant Bank and now in its sixth year, attracts new and established wine producers from the Western Cape...

Cape Town TV (CTV), the city’s new community television channel, has entered into an agreement with local film and drama school AFDA to help train students in exchange for use of the school’s facilities. Under the deal CTV will have an...

Cape Town’s new central library has been officially opened in the historic Old Drill Hall in the city centre. The facility on the corner of Darling and Parade streets is the result of a multi-million dollar refurbishment and upgrading funded by...

Two Capetonians are running 3,500 km along the coast from Namibia to Mozambique to raise money for children with facial disfigurements. Braam Malherbe and David Grier are taking part in the Miles for Smiles 2008 challenge on behalf of Operation Smiles...

Ebrahim Rasool of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) has resigned as premier of the Western Cape province. He will be replaced by provincial minister for finance and tourism Lynne Brown, also of ANC. The change comes at a time when...

South African judge Navanethem Pillay has been nominated as the new United Nations (UN) commissioner for human rights. She will replace Louise Arbour of Canada, who stepped down earlier this year after four years in the post. A member of South...

Three countries have been put on standby to host the 2010 football World Cup in the event that South Africa is unable to host the tournament, president of the international federation of association football (FIFA) Sepp Blatter has said. The countries...

South African writer Henrietta Rose-Innes has won this year’s edition of the Caine prize for the best short story in English by an African writer. Her winning contribution, “Poison”, is an apocalyptic tale set in Cape Town about how South Africans...

Work has begun to revitalise Cape Town’s Grand Parade ahead of the football World Cup in South Africa in 2010 pending approval from the international football authorities FIFA for the use of the central city venue as the main fan park...