Protesters torched trains and smashed windows at Cape Town's central station on Monday (June 12) in frustration over delayed travel services.

One of the world's iconic tourist destinations could run out of water by April as the city's worst drought in a century risks forcing residents to join queues for emergency rations.

Water crisis worsens in South Africa as Cape Town faces the prospect of having to turn off city taps.

South Africa ranks among the most dangerous countries in the world. Here's how police are trying to tackle gang-related crime

Collectors from America and Europe are scouring Cape Town's booming art market in search of deals as diverse as a traditional oil portrait by South Africa's Irma Stern or a sculpture assembled from bottle caps by Ghana's El Anatsui.

South African soldiers deployed to gang-ridden Cape Town suburbs on Thursday in a bid to help quell escalating gang violence that has killed hundreds since January and which officials have likened to a "war zone," a Reuters cameraman and community activists said.

Tasting grilled scorpion and a bowl of crunchy insects mixed with garlic and spices on a trip to Thailand four years ago "grossed out" chef Mario Barnard but also helped inspire him to experiment and open South Africa's first pop-up restaurant serving insect-only meals.

South Africa's tourism sector is on the verge of collapse because of the coronavirus crisis. On Thursday, the last German tourists are to be evacuated.

In Cape Town, South Africa, a handful of purists practice bodysurfing, a type of surfing without boards or bragging, the closest you can possibly get to the waves. It is a little known sport, which historians say traces back to the origins of surfing.

In Cape Town, a handful of purists practice bodysurfing, a type of surfing without boards or bragging, the closest you can possibly get to the waves. It is a little-known sport, which historians trace back to the origins of surfing.

Cape Town engulfed in smoke as wildfires destroy buildings

Emergency services are fighting to contain a fire that has broken out in the foothills of Cape Town's landmark Table Mountain. As strong winds fanned the blaze on Sunday, hundreds of University of Cape Town students had to flee as their library burned.