The City of Cape Town's ammendment to its Municipal Planning By-law promotes development within city regulations, and has been hailed as "a big step in the right direction" by micro-developers, NGOs, ...

South African soldiers moved into gang-ridden Cape Town townships on Wednesday, as two people were killed in fresh violence, nearly 50 days after the president ordered the deployment. Troops in full ...

CAPE TOWN, Sept 25 (Reuters) - As Sindile Mavundla guided young girls on their bikes through a street in Cape Town's Khayelitsha township, he said he had one goal: to get more of them into cycling.

Khayelitsha -- which means "new home" in Xhosa (one of South Africa's 11 official languages) -- is the largest township in Cape Town. In South Africa, townships are the often underdeveloped, racially ...

Cape Town, South Africa – Two ominous letters are spray-painted on a wall at the entrance to Tafelsig, a township in Mitchells Plain on the outskirts of Cape Town: HL – the insignia of the Hard ...

Shacks are seen through the doorway of domestic worker Alphonia Zali's two roomed apartment, as authorities around the world impose various guidelines on lockdowns and social distancing to curb the ...