Western Cape

Residents of Phillippi are reporting a complete collapse of basic service delivery, with years of complaints about burst sewage pipes and uncollected rubbish yielding...

A community safety leader has issued a urgent plea for the deployment of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) to the Cape Flats,...

‘What’s in a name?’ Shakespeare had his heroine ask in Romeo and Juliet. In a new book, local cartographer Peter Slingsby explains that vernacular...

Residents of Marikana informal settlement set fire to a storage room at Town Two Clinic, Khayelitsha, on Monday night after police stopped them from...

A multi-agency operation culminated in the arrest of nine suspects on Tuesday morning in the waters near Robben Island. The successful operation involved the...

An integrated operation involving the SAPS Drone Unit, SAPS Divers, the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, and other law enforcement agencies resulted...

A joint intelligence operation between the Breederiver K9 Unit and Sea Fisheries authorities resulted in the seizure of over 13,000 units of abalone and...

The case against the sole suspect in the murder of a 14-year-old boy in Elsies River has been postponed to 28 October by the...

A shaky video clip, leaked from Stellenbosch Municipality, has set off a storm. In it, senior HR manager Alexander Kannemeyer appears to question why...

ANC National Chairperson Gwede Mantashe has issued a direct challenge to the party’s councillors in the Western Cape, telling them they must "pick up...

African National Congress (ANC) National Chairperson Gwede Mantashe has publicly defended President Cyril Ramaphosa’s recent acknowledgment that some of the country's best-run municipalities are...

In a pre-dawn operation on Thursday, 18 September 2025, a multi-unit police task force arrested six men allegedly linked to a violent extortion syndicate...