Joburg mayor Herman Mashaba, and others in the DA, have lambasted the Institute of Race Relations for its #SaveTheOpposition campaign. We remain unapologetic for ...
Many may wonder if Germany’s President could really have come away from his meeting with Mr Ramaphosa feeling reassured writes Michael Morris.
The drive to implement land expropriation without compensation risks undermining the considerable benefits of global goodwill, says the writer.
From behind enemy lines in the First Boer War, to Dolly's last innings
Bad delays are affecting employee morale, according to a survey by the Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Curiosity is seldom entirely innocent, and so much is certainly true of an extraordinary project of 1860, fleetingly recounted in the newspaper of July that year. ...
Copper mining is one asset Cape Town does not have - yet it boasts multimillion-rand exports of the economically precious metal.
The bell from the doomed SS Mendi is on prominent - if temporary - display at Southampton?s prestigious SeaCity Museum, while research continues into establishing ...
The final home of the historic bell from the SS Mendi - which sank off the English coast a century ago - will likely be known ?relatively soon?.
The City of Cape Town desperately wants to intervene in the floundering Metrorail service, a move they hope will help ease traffic on gridlocked Cape roads.
In a memorable encounter, we find the returning guerrilla on a train, bound for the Cape in the late 1980s, dwelling in a reverie of nostalgia.
News coverage of the sinking of the SS Mendi a century ago apparently prompted an anonymous donor to leave the doomed ship's bell at Swanage Pier.
Who is Alfonso Seconds, and what do we make of him? Michael Morris reports on a penetrating criminology report tabled in a Western Cape High Court murder trial. ...
Life and art are not so readily separable, it seems - not, at any rate, when gallerists and curators are asked to choose between an artist who murdered a woman, ...
The mammoth 120-hectare Two Rivers Urban Park project is regarded as a decisive opportunity to reverse apartheid spatial planning.
A candid examination of our condition is the essential foundation of any effort to review or change policy, says the Institute of Race Relations.
Western Cape's water crisis is not due to low summer rainfall, but rather lower than average rainfall in the rain season - and therein lies the problem.
Celebrated atmospheric scientist Cape Town-born George Philander is a key figure in research into the El Niño phenomenon.
Victims of the District Six forced removals are seeking redress from post-1966 property owners in the area.
District Six Working Committee is painstakingly piecing together a record of the property deeds of the original 150ha precinct
In the 160th birthday year of Argus titles in Cape Town, Weekend Argus launched a regular feature based on material from our archives.
Reusable sanitary pads are the subject of acclaimed photographer Julia Gunther’s latest project
City of Cape Town transport official and former journalist Steven Otter died of stab wounds after confronting intruders in his Harfield Village home.
Helping millions of disadvantaged South Africans gain a foothold in the country’s R6. 8 trillion property market is likely to be one of the key objectives of a revised ...
Everybody knows the future isn’t what it used to be – what’s changed is that we don’t know, or we know a whole lot less, about what everybody thinks it will be. ...