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The news broke out on Sunday morning, after reports that police were investigating an incident that took place at a hotel in Cape Town. 

South African rapper, AKA’s fiance, Nellie Tembe fell to her death on Sunday at the Pepper Club Hotel in Cape Town. The rapper whose real name is Kiernan

A MOTHER wants answers following the death of her seven-year-old son.

Don Wilding When the steamer Portland was lost off the coast of the Outer Cape during Thanksgiving weekend of 1898, it was the greatest maritime disaster that New England had ever seen. The disaster also proved to be the inspiration behind a poem, “The Loss of Steamer Portland,” which was written by Captain Frederick R. Eldredge and Hydrographer George Eldredge of Chatham. The 326-word poem opened with the lines: “On the twenty-seventh of November, In the year of ninety-eight, A northeast...

Families without water as City of Cape Town contract expires Residents of an informal settlement in Dunoon, Cape Town, have threatened to continue to block roads if the City does not deliver water. Residents of an informal settlement in Dunoon, Cape Town, have threatened to continue to block roads if the City does not deliver enough water. Water deliveries have been reduced since a contract for bulk water delivery ended on 31 January. Residents of Zwelitsha informal settlement blocked Malibongw...

The luxurious garden of Sa Maison in Floriana has attracted the nib of various writers, foremost among whom Comm. Edgar Montanaro and Ġużè Cassar Pullicino. They start with an early owner Chevalier Caille Maison who, presumably in the 18th century, used the site as his hunting lodge, and from whom the name of Sa Maison was derived. From various sources, it can be established that the history of Sa Maison goes much further back. It was founded in the 17th century by Fra Giovanni Minucci, who ...

A Cape Town man was bust for selling canned fish meant for school children feeding schemes.

Tokyo could not afford to lose its carriers the way America could. Key point: America had better industrial capacity to build replacements and win the war. That was why lopsided trades of warships at the Battles of Coral Sea and Midway were so damaging for Tokyos cause. Responding to a November 27, 1941, war warning message from Admiral Harold R. “Betty” Stark, chief of naval operations, America’s prized handful of aircraft carriers were fortuitously absent from Pearl Harbor when Japanes...