Press Releases
The Cape Town Press Club mourns the loss of veteran journalist Ben Said
The Cape Town Press Club mourns the loss of veteran journalist, Ben Said
Cape Town Press Club elects new committee
The Cape Town Press Club is excited to announce their newly elected 2019 committee.
Cape Town Press Club mourns the death of Nigel Murphy
Nigel Murphy, a founding member of the Cape Town Press Club and who served as its chairman in the early 1990s, died at his Kenilworth, Cape Town, home this morning, 4 June 2019. He was 82.
The Cape Town Press Club mourns the tragic and untimely passing of Anton Steenkamp
The Cape Town Press Club mourns the tragic and untimely passing of Anton Steenkamp, well known Labour Court Judge. Anton was on a long-planned tour of Africa with his wife when he was bitten by a black mamba on Monday, which proved fatal.
Cape Town Press Club mourns the death of Brendan Boyle
Journalist Brendan Boyle, a former chairperson of the Cape Town Press Club, has died in Cape Town after a long struggle with cancer.
Detention by Tanzanian authorities of the South African journalist Angela Quintal and her Kenyan colleague Muthoki Mumo
The Cape Town Press Club condemns in the strongest terms the detention by Tanzanian authorities of the South African journalist Angela Quintal and her Kenyan colleague Muthoki Mumo on Wednesday evening.
Keep up international pressure to solve disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi
International pressure must be kept up on on the United States, of which Khashoggi is a citizen, and on the governments of Turkey and Saudi Arabia to solve the mystery of Kashoggi’s disappearance.
The Cape Town Press Club appalled by life sentences without parole for Turkish journalists
This week, an Istanbul court of appeals upheld the life sentences without parole handed down to four journalists in February this year. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, which regularly conducts prison censuses, Turkey remains the world’s leading jailer of journalists with 73 currently behind bars.
Upcoming Events
Conservationist Francoise Malby-Anthony on conservation, her life and work
Past Events
Jeremy Vearey on the politics of policing and crime in the Western Cape
Mpumelelo Mkhabela on why corruption has thrived and what is to be done about it
Prof Sean Davison on “the right to die with dignity”
Mark Barnes, former CEO of the Post Office on “how to fix the country”
Bruce Whitfield on South Africans solving problems for the future
Songezo Zibi on solutions to the challenges facing the country
Magda Wierzycka on life lessons and business principles
Herman Mashaba of ActionSA on our economic crisis
Michela Wrong on “What it’s been like reporting on Kagame’s Rwanda”
Raymond Joseph on SA’s Dodgy Lottery
Karyn Maughan on the Zuma administration’s secret dealings with Russia
Her Excellency Liubov Abravitova Ukrainian Ambassador to South Africa
Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis reflects on first 100 Days in Office
Malcolm Ray on why capitalism has triumphed in the West and failed in Africa
In The News
How Day Zero drought and active civil society saved the Cape Flats Aquifer
...than weakened the role of the PHA and CFA. On the morning of Thursday 16 February 2017 the PHA Campaign and water activists 'crashed' a Cape Town Press Club-hosted talk by Western Cape local government ...Read original article
NP outperformed the ANC on every given service delivery, hands down – John Kane Berman
...where we don't care about the poor and improving their lives'. Speaking in October 2020 to the Cape Town Press Club F W de Klerk said that Afrikaner nationalists had been 'passionately committed to the resurrection ...Read original article
DA illiberalism: The Ukrainian crescendo
...are pushing rather for independence of the Western Cape a push based completely on racism than a push for federalism. Even more so the Cape Town Press Club an institution that actively espouses the DA's ...Read original article
Government confirms it will continue to work with BRICS nations amid Russia Ukraine war, SA for it
...economy's responses to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. Read also Foreign shop owners slam Ramaphosa for his absence as Operation Dudula sweeps across Alex Speaking at the Cape Town Press Club Abravitova said Moscow's ...Read original article
How will SA be affected if a nuclear war broke out in Europe?
...Press Club last week Ukraine's ambassador to SA Liubov Abravitova said Putin had threatened the world with a nuclear war and had decided on behalf of Russians that their future would be one of isolation and ...Read original article
How will SA be affected if a nuclear war broke out in Europe? This simulation thinks it has the answer
...Press Club last week Ukraine's ambassador to SA Liubov Abravitova said Putin had threatened the world with a nuclear war and had decided on behalf of Russians that their future would be one of isolation and ...Read original article
Hundreds of South Africans Eager to Join Fight Against Russian Invasion – Ukraine’s Ambassador to SA
...Ukraine's ambassador to South Africa Liubov Abravitova told the Cape Town Press Club on Friday that anyone who wanted to join Ukraine's fight against Russia was welcome. She added that Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky's...Read original article
Daily Brief: Hundreds of South Africans ‘eager to join fight against Russian invasion’
...President Volodymyr Zelensky is establishing for volunteers who wish to help Ukraine fight the Russian invaders. Ukraine's ambassador to South Africa Liubov Abravitova told the Cape Town Press Club on Friday that ...Read original article