The Latest Breaking News from Cape Town

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

The cast have landed in Cape Town, South Africa

Suspected North Korean balloons carrying faeces are latest example of dung or human waste being used in conflict

As South Africans vote in a crunch general election, one key issue that's impacted the campaign is the policy of affirmative action the country began in 1994. A series of measures, known as the "Triple B double E Act" (Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment), have favoured non-White South Africans in public…

Township residents say the opposition Democratic Alliance is elitist and runs a city that functions only for the rich.

The hopes raised by the ANC coming to power in 1994 have, 30 years on, been dashed for millions still without a decent roof over their heads

It was the kind of task any competent seamstress has completed hundreds of times before: altering denim jeans and jerseys. But there was something different about this piece of work. Though our team of scientists were paying for it, we weren’t her ultimate customers – the clothes were to be…

United has been seeing “stable demand” and “potentially further growth opportunities.”

In tonight's edition: With just one week to go before South Africa heads to the polls, we head to Cape Town, where our correspondent tells us what's at stake before the crucial day. Also, an investigation by Lighthouse Reports accuses the EU of funding serious human rights abuses in Tunisia,…