Increased food contamination risk
Food safety has never been as precarious as it is now.
Vehicles top list of the city’s air polluters
Rivalry between Durban and Cape Town has intensified over the years as they compete to become top sport, fashion or tourist attractions, but there is a more serious challenge facing the two cities - air quality.
Cape air dirtier than Durban’s
Cape Town has the third-highest levels of air pollution in South Africa, with vehicles accounting for most of the ‘haze’.
Pitbull breeder runs foul of law
Acting on a tip-off, Cape cops and the SPCA carried out a surprise raid on the home of suspected pitbull breeders.
Pitbull breeder runs foul of law enforcers
Acting on a tip-off from a member of the public, law enforcement and the SPCA recently carried out a surprise raid on a house in Rocklands, Mitchells Plain, whose tenants were suspected of breeding pitbulls with the intent
Paramedics ‘shaken’ after robbery
Three paramedics are "fairly shaken" after they were attacked at gunpoint while treating a girl in the back of an ambulance.
Adrenalin rush in an emergency vehicle
Speeding through the streets of Cape Town at 3am at speeds in excess of 180km/h is most certainly a crime.
Adrenalin rush in a rescue vehicle
Aly Verbaan joins Mayco securocrat JP Smith for a roller-coaster Friday night in an emergency response vehicle.
Tutu holding out hope
As countries across the globe observe World TB Day today to raise awareness about the disease, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu said while the progress made to contain its spread did not inspire similar confidence, not all
Missing catamaran crew: families fearful
A Bellville mother is beside herself as her son, who went on a catamaran trip, was last heard of in mid-January.
Dog fights go mobile
Dogfighters are now holding their "contests" in the back of moving vans - to make it harder for cops to catch them.
Dance landmark to close after 45 years
A Cape Town dance school that has been influential in the dance community for 45 years is to close due to a lack of funding.
Street kids becoming a growing menace
Street children on glue or harder drugs are becoming more aggressive and prevalent at Cape Town's CBD. Aly Verbaan reports
The courageous Pollsmoor redemption
Tracy van der Westhuizen, who was sentenced to seven years in Pollsmoor for fraud, says prison saved her life.
Experts present case for low-carb, high-fat diet
Seventeen speakers from around the world have presented the case for the low-carb, high-fat diet.
Motorist’s exploding sunroof mystery
The last thing you'd expect after spending almost R1 million on a car is for its sunroof to spontaneously explode
Woman’s efforts see DNA act go live
It took 11 years but Vanessa Lynch has got what she wanted: a DNA database of criminals.
Woman’s efforts see DNA act go live
It took over a decade, but she did it.
In training for walk down the aisle
It's certainly an unusual wedding present, but it is the one thing paraplegic Andrew Merryweather was really hoping for.
Collector’s item for Bosman fans
If I were black, I would likely toss his oeuvre on a bonfire
African travails with mad matriarch
Rollercoaster ride with ‘the last colonialist’ not a ‘still-life’. . .
More than a sum of his parts
Unassuming at first glance, the cover of A Man of Parts carries two warnings – or disclaimers, if one is given to cynicism.
Local novelist raises the bar
Van Heerden’s idiosyncratic style is never contrived