Cape Town's approach to land management reflects a legacy of apartheid, as the city prioritises auctions over equitable housing solutions for its residents, writes Shabodien Roomanay.

A gunman with a semi-automatic rifle held up motorists on the notorious N2 in Cape Town on Wednesday afternoon, despite heightened law enforcement patrols on the highway. Images which appear to depict ...

Cape Town, in South Africa, is famous for its dramatic mountains and coastline, but its greatest treasure lies in the plants that carpet its slopes and valleys. Table Mountain National Park and its ...

Of South Africa’s eight metropolitan municipalities, the City of Cape Town has provided the most government-funded homes since 1994, according to a parliamentary response by Human Settlements Minister ...

An entire Australian town has been put up for sale for about £5m, raising fears for the future of one of the country’s smallest and most unusual communities. Licola, a remote settlement in the ...

The Khayelitsha Caterers Forum is demanding the immediate removal of Halaal certification as a compulsory requirement for catering tenders at Khayelitsha Hospital - while the Muslim Judicial Council ...

Leanne O'Donnell, second from left, stands in front of her store in Licola Tucked away in the rugged Victorian bushland lies the tiny outpost of Licola, population: five. Consisting of a couple of ...

Tributes are pouring in as the South African music scene mourns the loss of Sinesipho Peter, known by his moniker Ta Bravo or Bravo Le Roux, a talented hip-hop artist and music producer from ...

Shortly after midnight on Saturday, 17 January, eight people were fatally shot in a shebeen in the Marikana informal settlement in Philippi East on the Cape Flats. Police said the extortion-linked ...

You might expect the country’s hottest housing market to be somewhere balmy — perhaps Florida or the Carolinas. But it’s actually Irondequoit, New York, a suburb of Rochester that’s home to about ...

The nightmare in the Round Hill neighborhood of Sagamore has begun. As of Friday, the state officially seized ownership of most of the 14 homes there by eminent domain for the $4.5 billion MassDOT ...

Would you buy a house located on an eroding bluff? For many, that would be a hard no, but when it comes to overheated Cape Cod real estate, erosion is just another inconvenience. Take the ...