The Latest Breaking News from Cape Town

With the clock for the 2023 Netball World Cup counting down, Merryn Anderson picks a likely Silver Ferns squad for the pinnacle event

South Africa is urbanising rapidly. By 2050, eight in 10 people will live in urban areas, significantly increasing the demands on basic infrastructure development and associated services.

Across the globe, many recent severe wildfires have moved from wildlands into the urban periphery (the “wildland urban interface”). In their wake, they’ve left death, destruction and disruption. This has led to questions about the extent to which climate change is to blame.

Citizen scientists in Lagos, Cape Town and Accra are gathering air-quality data on runs to help curb a key cause of early death

Wealthy households' water usage is driving water crises in major cities worldwide, new research finds.

Socioeconomic disparity is just as influential as climate change and population growth when it comes to explaining why so many cities are struggling with their water supply, researchers say.

Pools and well-watered gardens at least as damaging as climate emergency or population growth

In tonight's edition: In Nigeria, gunmen kidnap at least eight secondary school students. The pupils were from Awon Government Secondary School in Kaduna state. Over in DR Congo, Doctors Without Borders warn that many of the million people forced from North Kivu by M23 rebel attacks are living in appalling…

Harlequins crashed out of the Heineken European Champions Cup despite an attempted late fightback against the Stormers in Cape Town.