A month and a half after Orlando Pirates suffered a frustrating defeat away at Cape Town City in the Betway Premiership, the Buccaneers will host the return PSL fixture on February 22.

South Africa is set to host Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky on a state visit, President Cyril Ramaphosa confirmed on X without giving a specific date. The invite comes at the end of a week which saw Kyiv excluded from US-Russia talks on how to bring an end to the three-year war in Ukraine.

Muhsin Hendricks, a pioneering figure dubbed the world's first openly gay imam, has been shot dead in South Africa. The 57-year-old cleric ran a mosque in Cape Town intended as a safe haven for gay and other marginalised Muslims.

For the whole time I was reading it, I tried to second-guess Twist, the new novel by the Irish writer Colum McCann. Ah! I said, a chapter or so in, as the narrator, a lost soul, washed up in Cape Town awaiting a summons to an ocean voyage: it’s a re-working of Moby-Dick!

Eight bucket-list parties around the world, from Cape Town to Trinidad, for those who love the music of the African Diaspora.

I’m Brendan Murray, a senior economics editor reporting from Cape Town. Today we’re looking at the meeting of G-20 finance chiefs in that city. Send us feedback and tips to [email protected] or get in touch on X via @economics.

Crystal has launched its annual Wellness Retreat Cruises, which include a 15-night journey from Lisbon to Tema from Nov. 26 to Dec. 11, 2025, and a 12-night sailing from Tema to Cape Town from Dec. 11 to Dec.

At a rural village in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province, unemployed 19-year-old Nozuko Majola is trying to figure out if she has enough money for the one-hour ride to collect her much-needed HIV medication,

Imam Muhsin Hendricks, 58, was fatally shot around 10 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 15 in Gqeberha in the Eastern Cape

The erosion of multilateralism threatens global growth and stability, President Cyril Ramaphosa warned Wednesday at a G20 finance meeting in South Africa marked by the absence of the US Treasury

On Wednesday UK chancellor Rachel Reeves will meet EU finance ministers at a G20 meeting in Cape Town to discuss a new funding mechanism to rebuild the continent’s enfeebled defences. On Thursday Starmer meets President Trump at the White House to plead with him to maintain the US security guarantee in Europe,