The Latest Breaking News from Cape Town

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

With her stirring speech 100 years ago, Sarojini Naidu inspired united opposition to empire and white minority rule.

World renowned South African poet James Matthews has died at 95. His was the last great voice of an era of writers who worked against South Africa’s repressive and racist system of apartheid, which resulted in him being relentlessly harassed, detained by police and his work banned.

South Africa 18-12 New Zealand: Siya Kolisi and Malcolm Marx score the only tries as the Springbok’s won the game in Cape Town

South Africa 18-12 New Zealand: Sifa Kolisi and Malcolm Marx scored to secure the win for the Springboks

It’s the world’s first significant rabies infection in marine mammals. And it has scientists – and beachgoers – worried.

The Springboks look set to secure the Rugby Championship as the two fierce foes renew their rivalry in Cape Town this weekend, but it may be off the pitch where the more significant battles are about to be fought