Firefighters battled to extinguish a blaze that engulfed large tracts of Cape Town’s landmark Table Mountain on Wednesday before a meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors from the Group of 20 nations.

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.

F or 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,

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

By Makiko Yamazaki TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato said on Friday that he would skip next week's meeting of finance leaders from the Group of 20 major economies in Cape Town, South Africa,

President of European Central Bank Christine Lagarde attends the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting in Cape Town, South Africa, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Nardus Engelbr

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.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa described the recently adopted Expropriation Act as “not a confiscation instrument.” VOA’s Priscilla Mines explain why that is misleading.

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,

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