Cape Town is getting more international flights going into 2027, with two airlines adding frequencies ahead of the peak travel season. British Airways is increasing its number of international flights between London Heathrow and Cape Town for the upcoming summer season. The airline will increase the frequency on the route from seven flights per week…
Two German visitors spent the night on a remote stretch of the Cape Town coastline after one suffered an ankle injury and the pair found themselves struggling along a badly overgrown section of trail near the Boss 400 wreck, Cape {town} Etc reports. The rescue, which began late on Sunday afternoon and ended shortly after midday…
The City of Cape Town has issued an urgent call for residents in several southern and western suburbs to reduce their water consumption while emergency repairs are underway on a major pipeline in Claremont, Cape {town} Etc reports. The City’s Water and Sanitation team began attending to repairs on an 810mm-diameter pipeline on Tuesday, 29 September…
Today is the ancient feast of St Michael and All Angels, traditionally known in England as Michaelmas. The feast itself was celebrated across Western Christendom, but Michaelmas became deeply woven into English life. It marked the turning of the seasons, the end of harvest, and became one of England’s four traditional quarter days, when rents…
South Africa’s economy is not growing because the national budget is structured against growth. For every R100 the government spends, the bulk goes to salaries, debt interest, day-to-day costs and grants — leaving only a thin slice for the investments that expand the productive base of the economy. According to recent National Treasury consolidated expenditure…
Australia 42–38 South Africa The Springboks suffered a dramatic 42-38 defeat to Australia in a chaotic Test match at Optus Stadium in Perth on Sunday, 27 September 2026. The Wallabies, under coach Les Kiss, built a commanding 42-17 lead with around 15 minutes remaining through tries from Len Ikitau (two), Ben Donaldson, Harry Wilson and…
President Cyril Ramaphosa wagered South Africa’s well-being on what he perceived to be President Donald Trump’s butterfly attention span. He lost the wager and the concern should be that he may now double down. There is more to that wager than a potentially ruinous misjudgment of an erratic American president. Drawing on the Marxist-Leninist concept…
John Leake Living in our current Age of the Tyrannical Weeny often takes the fun out of being human. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, I had long vaguely suspected that about 85% percent of humanity is incapable of free and independent thought, and merely conforms to prevailing doctrines, hysterias, and fashions. Nevertheless, I was still…
Conscious Caracal 🇿🇦@ConCaracal Farm murders are the only violent crime encouraged and romanticised by politicians through chants like “Kill the Boer, Kill the farmer” – a chant the president refuses to condemn as hateful, wrong, and unacceptable, and even defends. Farm murders are the only violent crime the existence of is flat-out denied by the…
Article by INFIL // EXFIL on X Heritage Day was designed as an act of inclusion. A democratic president’s job on 24 September is to make that inclusion audible to ALL people of our nation, their own recipes, and their own grandparents’ names. Since Cyril Ramaphosa turned his speech into an election campaign and can’t…
