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As people migrated with their agricultural traditions, certain grape varieties became associated with far-flung regions. Read their stories.

Why are members of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) picketing outside billionaire Johann Rupert’s farms in the Western Cape and Mpumalanga?

EFF members have gathered for a march to businessman Johan Rupert's wine farm in the Stellenbosch area to show its disdain for the arrival of Jan van Riebeeck 370 years ago, and the colonial legacies that launched the hefty portfolios of billionaires such as Rupert's.

They want to hand over a memorandum to business tycoon Johann Rupert.

The EFF plans to picket outside a wine estate and other farms owned by the nation’s richest man to mark the day colonialism started in the country.

The EFF pickets outside a wine estate and other farms owned by the nation’s richest man to mark the day colonialism started in the country.

As Kraaifontein motorists continue daily to battle lawless taxi drivers on the corner of Ninth Avenue and Van Riebeeck Road, underspending in law enforcement overtime for Kraaifontein was reported in the City of Cape Town’s capital expenditure at a s

Two men have been taken in for questioning in connection with the robbry of the Brackenfell Post Office in Cape Town.

As we settle into the new year with a vastly different reality, it is good to know that there are some things from our pre-pandemic lives that we can still enjoy the same way as before.

Apart from the painting of Van Riebeeck landing at the Cape and a triangular stamp, most of the work of the artist has existed in the margins of history.