Of South Africa's nine provinces, only the Western Cape returned a National majority in 1994.
Today the provincial government reckons around 130 gangs with 100, 000 members operate in the Western Cape.
Tourism and wine are two of the most important industries to the Western Cape.
In the Western Cape, the ANC's provincial secretary was stabbed in the neck at a party get-together.
In terms of quality, the wines of the Western Cape, in particular, have made great strides in the past decade.
Xolile Mngeni was due to go on trial on Monday at the Western Cape High Court, together with Mzwamadoda Qwabe.
Foreign interest probably has pushed prices up slightly in specific areas, such as the posh bits of the Western Cape coast.
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Major-General Peter Jacobs, head of police operations in the Western Cape, says the army is not trained to deal with gangs.
Cape Town is the natural hub for touring the Western Cape's Winelands.
The National Energy Regulator found that last year's outages in the Western Cape were largely due to Eskom's negligence and improper maintenance.
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It runs the Western Cape province and the city of Cape Town.
Rodney de Kock, the director for public prosecutions in the Western Cape, told the court that Mr Mngeni was at Groote Schuur Hospital.
Most of the Western Cape's 3, 000 farm workers are not employed on a permanent basis - despite working on the farms for many years.
In the Western Cape, towering sand dunes run to the edge of the sea and you examine a stunning and extensive collection of ancient rock art.
The other, Ebrahim Rasool, was in charge of one of the best-performing provinces, the Western Cape, but had long been scrapping with the party's local bosses.
According to South Africa's Die Burger newspaper, security guards found the 17-year-old in an industrial area of Bredasdorp in the Western Cape province on Saturday morning.
That sentiment is echoed by Helen Zille - the premier of the Western Cape province and head of South Africa's main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance.
Ironically, the Western Cape has probably done best from the end of apartheid, as tourists have flocked to Table Mountain, the winelands and the province's spectacular coastline.
In Africa, Google is sponsoring a project in South Africa that will connect 10 schools in the Western Cape for six months, that will launch soon.
Some of the Western Cape's rampant alcoholism can be traced back to the Cape vineyard owners' old habit of paying their Cape Coloured workers partly in wine.
Mr Ferhelst was 14 when he helped to form the Bonteheuwel Military Wing (BMW), an underground youth group which was active in the Western Cape in the 1980s.
According to a Bonhams representative, the painting will be exhibited, alongside the rest of the diamond retailer's art collection, at the Delaire Graff Estate, near Stellenbosch in the Western Cape.
Wheat farmers in the Western Cape, who used to send half their crop to the industrial heartland around Johannesburg and Pretoria, have been hit by the abolition of uniform, countrywide prices.
He says that both a rise in domestic quality across the Western Cape and growth in fine-wine prices mean that in the next decade an iconic wine will emerge from South Africa.
Founded in 1700 by Dutch colonists and stewarded by a long line of British mining magnates, the vineyards of Vergelegen had been left fallow by the time Anglo American bought the Western Cape estate in 1987.
The opposition Democratic Alliance (DA), led by Helen Zille, a former Cape Town mayor and now premier of the Western Cape, seemed set to improve sharply on the 15% it won in the last local polls in 2006.
The court's judges had earlier accused John Hlophe, a controversial judge who presides over the high court in the Western Cape, of trying to lean on two members of the constitutional court to persuade them to rule in favour of Mr Zuma.
South Africa has increased the basic daily wage of farm workers by 52% following a violent strike in the wine-producing Western Cape region, the labour minister has said.
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