Cape Town

Video: Bicycle shop trashed, looted after Cape Town lights festival

Cape Town’s annual festive lights gathering is supposed to be a joyous occasion for families, but things turned ugly in the late hours after…

Graph: Cape Town’s dams are in much better shape than last year

Cape Town’s combined dam level have dropped another 0.7% over the previous week, the latest report from the City revealed. Issued on Monday, the…

Cape Town’s dams continue drying trend into November

Cape Town’s dam levels dropped 0.6% this past week, according to the latest report by the City. Overall, dam levels remain just below three-quarters…

Cape Town’s dams end October on a negative note

After a week of extremely hot weather, Cape Town’s overall water consumption has spiked to a new high, while its dam levels have dropped….

Cape Town just can’t stop tweeting about this heatwave

After months of rain, it seems that Cape Town has jumped from the depths of winter straight into the clay oven of summer. The…

MyCiTi claims EFF is behind bus strike, seeks court interdict

As the MyCiTi Bus strike continues into its fourth day, the company has made an official statement on behalf of the City of Cape…

Updating: ‘Wildcat’ MyCiti strike brings Cape Town to a standstill

Update, Tuesday 10am: The “wildcat” MyCiti bus strike continues into its second day, affecting a vast swathe of Cape Town. There are however more…

Cape Town’s Theewaterskloof Dam is now 50% full

Cape Town’s largest dam, the Theewaterskloof, is now more than 50% full. That’s a big milestone reached by the City of Cape Town’s largest…

City of Cape Town in talks with DWS to relax water restrictions

After its latest dam report heralded more good news, the City of Cape Town announced that it is in talks with national government to…

Cape Town’s dams begin September nearly two-thirds full

After we highlighted the Berg River Dam’s slow roll to 100% capacity in last week’s report, Cape Town’s other supply dams are the star…

Cape Town’s huge Berg River Dam is nearly 100% full

Drought? What drought, Cape Town? After the latest dam report was issued by the City of Cape Town on Monday, there’s nothing but good…

Watch: Cape Town’s trains are getting a bit overloaded

Cape Town’s public transport system is a nightmare; even the City of Cape Town itself hinted at it. But that doesn’t mean there’s been…

Instagram captures weekend snow across Cape Town’s surrounds

Cape Town and surrounds did in fact have an “interesting” weekend of weather, at least according to SAWS. The national weather service issued widespread…

Update: SAWS issues weather warnings for Cape Town this weekend

Update, 11am, 25 August: The South African Weather Service has upgraded the weather watches to warnings in place across a large swathe of the…

Cape Town’s dams hit 60% mark for the first time in 2 years

Cape Town’s dams have reached another critical milestone this week. According to the City of Cape Town’s latest dam report issued Monday, the reservoirs…

UCT chooses not to suspend lecturer after #MenAreTrash Facebook post

UCT on Wednesday announced that it will not suspend a chemical engineering lecturer who published a “deeply disturbing” post to Facebook earlier this week….

UCT lecturer’s ‘disgusting’ Facebook post slams women for #MenAreTrash

UCT is again coming under fire on social media after a lecturer took to Facebook to criticise women for the #MenAreTrash movement, and confessing…

Cape Town dam levels now just below 60%

Recent rains has brought a much needed mid-winter refill to much of Cape Town’s outlying dams. According to the City of Cape Town’s latest…

Did you miss the rainbow across Cape Town on Tuesday?

If you were in central Cape Town at around 9am on Tuesday morning, you may have missed something pretty spectacular. And indeed, pretty. Instagram…

In graphs: we chart Cape Town’s rainfall in May, June and July 2018

May has come, and July has gone. And just like that, winter is nearly over in Cape Town. In a few months’ time, it’ll…

[Update] Cape Town #taxistrike may affect MyCiTi, Golden Arrow on Tuesday

Update: The taxi strike affecting Cape Town and surrounds was suspended late on Monday. Cape Town’s MyCiTi and Golden Arrow bus services may not…

Western Cape taxi strike adds to Cape Town’s public transport woes

Today Capetonians woke to rain, gridlocked highways, late trains, buses on fire, and a taxi strike. Yes, yet another taxi strike began in the…

Cape Town’s dam storage levels end July at 56.8% full

July may not have seen as much rain as June, but Cape Town’s dam levels finish the month 8.5% higher than last. This comes…

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Sony, Microsoft team up to develop ‘highly intuitive’ cloud-based gaming services

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