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After three years of living in their car in Cape Town, Jolene Erasmus and her Jewish husband and son were given more than just R20 when they crossed paths with Gary Meyers. They were...
Cape Town dancer Gala Winkler is performing in the Darkroom Contemporary production of e.ID: A Fugue at the State Theatre in Pretoria. The SA Jewish Report spoke to her between performances. What is your...
The national coordinator of PAGAD (People Against Gangsterism and Drugs) vowed to “unleash the party of Allah on the shores of Africa” when speaking to a crowd waving Hamas,...
For years, people have been packing up their lives in Johannesburg and heading to the Western Cape, drawn by the promise of beaches, better municipal services, and a slower pace...
An Israeli anti-terrorism organisation has confirmed that the attempted attack on the Cape Town Jewish community office building in December 2024 was undoubtedly an act of terror conducted by “Islamic extremists”. ...
Joseph Homa could not have imagined that the United Hebrew Schools’ Boys’ Minyan that he established in 1926 would still be functioning a hundred years later as the Minyan Yosef of Herzlia High School. Mr Homa had taken...
Growing up in South Africa, the Holocaust was always a subject just outside the door, waiting to step in. There were stories of survivors, books that slowly filled library shelves, horrific...
Striking up a friendship in the howling wind led to an outpouring of care that will change the life of a disabled, homeless man. This followed days of stormy weather, uprooted trees, and flooded...
Karen Tolman’s mother and grandmother were on the very last ship of Holocaust-surviving Jews allowed into South Africa in 1938. They were onboard the Duilio, which docked in...
Experts are calling for legal scrutiny of the Al Quds march through the Cape Town city centre where many children carried imitation firearms and there were chants of...
The now publicly accessible sports field leased by United Herzlia Schools (UHS) may soon be closed to the public either partially or totally, with the outcome awaiting a decision by the City of...
Cape Town Jewish seniors recently completed a mural containing the Cape Jewish Seniors Association’s logo at its centre in Sea Point. The group worked under the guidance of mosaic teacher Yvette Polovin. The association promotes the interests and...
“As mayor of Cape Town, and on behalf of our city, I want to say clearly that antisemitism has no place here.” These are the words of...
The Israeli flags waving above thousands of Christian protesters marching to Parliament in Cape Town last Thursday, 13 November 2025, represented a shared commitment to a...
The Cape southeaster may have blown the Cape Town Marathon off course, but it couldn’t keep the Jewish community away from the 7 October commemoration “A...
When Michael* looks out of his living room window in Vredehoek, he sees Lion’s Head rising above Cape Town’s skyline. It’s an enviable view, but it...
Avid cyclist Dennis Hammar (76) appeared physically fine after he was attacked by a vagrant near Cape Town city centre while riding on Sunday 27 July,...
Twenty-one Jewish mothers from Cape Town recently joined nearly 280 women from 15 countries across the globe as part of Momentum’s Journey of Growth, an eight-day...
South African-Israeli triathlete Susan Shaff refused to be dissuaded from running the Cape Town Festival of Running on 13 July while wearing a T-shirt bearing “Bring...
One of Cape Town’s most iconic and beloved shuls recently completed the first phase of its remodelling project. The Marais Road Shul, formally the Green &...
When a young man from Israel bent down on his prosthetic knee to propose to his girlfriend on top of Table Mountain in March, it was...
In a possible first for the City of Cape Town, children holding fake Kalashnikov and AK-47 rifles were seen on the streets of the Mother City...
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) member of the National Assembly, Mogamad Nazier Paulsen, has blamed the dearth of reasonably priced property in Cape Town on Jews. He...
Nearly six weeks have passed since an explosive device was thrown into the precinct of the Jewish communal offices in Gardens, Cape Town, and in spite...
Cape Town Jewry was exposed to what experts have called “terrorism” for the first time in many years when an improvised explosive device (IED) was thrown...
“The Jewish community has always played an invaluable part in making Cape Town a city of hope,” said Cape Town Executive Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis, speaking at...
On 5 October 2024, a parade of moral degradation took place in the streets of Cape Town. Under the misleading banner of a “March for Palestine”,...
Cape Town Jewry, supported by allies and dignitaries, came out in numbers to attend a multifaceted memorial commemorating the lives lost and shattered on 7 October...
The South African Police Service has deployed heat-sensing drones, police tracker dogs, divers, and search and rescue teams to locate missing Capetonian Robert Schroder (58), but...
When artist Shani Judes saw the empty spaces on the Milton Road ablution blocks on the Sea Point promenade, she knew she had to fill them...
Three Cape Town Jewish schools: Phyllis Jowell Jewish Day School (PJJDS); Sinai Academy; and Cape Town Torah High (CTTH) have come together to create South Africa’s...
In the Boland – or across the “boerewors belt,” if you will – there’s a community that still has regular minyanim. The community is Paarl –...
Chabad makes a point of ensuring that Jews feel welcome around the world and encourages a Jewish way of life. Now, Rabbi Chezkin Yehudah Malka and...
“I’ve never experienced such vile violence and antisemitism in my life,” said Jonathan Cohen*, who was attacked on the Sea Point promenade last Sunday, 12 November....
More than 10 000 people filled the streets of Cape Town on Saturday, 11 November, seething with animosity towards Israel, the local Jewish community, and the...
The University of Cape Town (UCT) has allowed the UCT Palestinian Solidarity Forum (UCT PSF) to express its support openly for terrorist organisations Hamas, Palestinian Islamic...
Many Capetonian Jews woke up on the morning of Saturday, 14 October, grieving the atrocities committed by Hamas terrorists exactly a week earlier. On Shabbat, and...
Anyone driving or walking along the Southern Cape Peninsula may do a double take when they notice that the St James Retirement Hotel now proudly flies...
The holidays of two Israeli families visiting Cape Town turned into living nightmares when their vehicles were stoned in the chaos of the taxi strike that...
The taxi strike that brought Cape Town to a standstill this week, interrupting the economy, service delivery, healthcare, education, and even the food supply chain, has...
