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Sparkling pools, empty taps: Cape Town’s stark water divide

By JACK DUTTON CAPE TOWN, South Africa—On Cape Town’s beaches, swimmers shower off sand from their feet. Irrigation pipes water the region’s famed vineyards. And...

Fire breaks out at South African parliament office in Cape Town

A major fire broke out at South Africa’s seat of parliament in Cape Town early Sunday, sending a thick column of smoke into the...

In South Africa, modest requiem for titan Tutu

Cape Town—South Africa bade farewell on Saturday to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the last great hero of the struggle against apartheid, in a funeral stripped...

South Africans pay respects to Tutu as body lies in state

CAPE TOWN—South Africans streamed into a Cape Town cathedral on Thursday to pay their last respects to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the globally venerated anti-apartheid...

Protesters hit S.Africa beaches to oppose oil exploration

Hundreds of environmentalist demonstrators gathered on South African beaches Sunday to protest against oil and gas exploration by energy giant Shell. In Cape Town protesters...

Escape from COVID: South Africa’s luxury ‘Blue Train’

Waiters in grey waistcoats bearing dainty platters of canapés circle the private lounge at Cape Town’s main train station and the tinkle of champagne...

Drought-stricken Cape Town counts the cost

South African winemaker Marlize Jacobs looks out across the parched brown earth that sustains her award-winning vines, surveying the effects of the water crisis...

Cape Town now faces dry taps by July 9

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