The Latest Breaking News from Cape Town

Mehdi Narjissi went missing while swimming near Cape of Good Hope

Cutting-edge telescopes, gravitational waves, black holes and our solar system’s central star, the Sun, are just a few of the topics that will be on the table in Cape Town, South Africa, for an event that’s a scientific version of the Olympic Games – though the world’s leading astronomy researchers…

Recent severe storms in Cape Town and Western Cape cause displacement, damage, and evacuations. Relief efforts are ongoing to support affected residents.

The South African city of Cape Town and surrounding areas have been hit by more storms, ripping roofs off houses and causing widespread flooding

Seals have been biting people in the first big outbreak of the disease in marine mammals, writes Nick Dall in Cape Town

Cape Town’s disaster coordination team has been on alert since last Thursday

The cast have landed in Cape Town, South Africa

Gerald “Mac” McKenzie passed away on 29 April 2024. He will be remembered as a renegade spirit and innovator in South African music. The composer and bassist changed Cape Town’s goema music tradition forever. Growing up in the city’s carnival culture, he helped form The Genuines, combining styles like rock,…

A third of the way into Mother City there’s a scene that characterises this tough, passionate film about Cape Town and its paradoxes of beauty and hardship, wealth and poverty, and the way it excludes the working poor.