The Latest Breaking News from Cape Town

The new moon of November 2024 occurs on Nov. 1, and three days later the moon will make a close pass to Venus in the evening sky.

Between 1986 and 1994, the people of Mitchells Plain in Cape Town lived with a terrifying shadow over their lives. A killer was abducting young boys, often close to railway stations, raping and murdering them. By early 1994, 22 bodies had been discovered across an extensive area of sand dunes.

Tokyo has previously topped the list, and now sits in second place

Forget calling a taxi or ordering food, Uber users can now chase the ‘big five’ on the app

Defending champions Scotland started their WXV2 title defence with a 19-0 victory over last year’s runners-up Italy in Cape Town.

Australia's rugby women have made a brilliant start to their campaign in the WXV2 tournament in Cape Town, hammering Wales 37-5.

For the past five years, the GANGS project, a European Research Council-funded project led by Dennis Rodgers, has been studying global gang dynamics in a comparative perspective. When understood in a nuanced manner that goes beyond the usual stereotypes and Manichean representations, gangs and gangsters arguably constitute fundamental lenses through…

Tests on dead Cape fur seals in South Africa have shown some had rabies

Explore the underwater kelp forests of Cape Town with photographer James Lowe and his Canon EOS 5D Mark IV