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Today | High 19°C | Low 12°C | Wind S 9kph | Fine, cool and clearing, patchy morning fog on the coast
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Off the Cape coastline this past month, a marine wildlife team quietly freed seven seals from fishing line and old lures, the kind of litter that looks harmless on a jetty and turns lethal in the water. Small win, big difference.
The City is leaving select parks, verges and greenbelts unmowed until October or November, giving indigenous plants a chance to flower, set seed and feed the city's bees, butterflies and birds. Look for the temporary "NO MOWING" signs, and if you want to catch the blooms properly, flowers are generally most open between 10am and 3pm.
Seven Western Cape learners have made history as part of Rockdonnell, the first team in the competition's history with representatives from every inhabited continent, winning the International Space Settlement Design Competition at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Their spacecraft design, Hermes, was built to carry 3,000 people across the inner Solar System. Joseph Allderman also picked up one of only four Anita Gale Creative Genius Prizes handed out.
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Sun 16 Aug, 19:00
R4,500pp |
Six Michelin stars land in one dining room at Amura, where chefs Alain Roux and Ángel León close out a four-night residency with a landmark four-hands dinner. |
Sun 16 Aug, 10:00
Free entry |
The Watershed at the V&A has 150-plus local makers under one roof: ceramics, textiles, jewellery, and enough craft stalls to fill a whole Sunday. |
Sun 16 Aug, 10:00
Free entry |
Mojo Market in Sea Point keeps its 25-odd food stalls and free live music running all day, Sunday salsa included if you're brave enough. |
Sun 16 Aug, all day
From R175 |
HYROX Cape Town closes out its CTICC weekend with the Doubles Women heats from 7am, rowing, sleds and sheer willpower on full display. |
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Chew in Wynberg has a honey glazed croissant doing the rounds on local food TikTok for good reason: flaky, buttery, sticky in exactly the right places.
One&Only Cape Town's high tea runs weekend afternoons at the Vista Bar, harbour views included. A proper splurge, worth saving for a birthday.
De Werf Farmstall out past Philadelphia on the N7 is going full gold with canola season, plus go-karting, a kids' play area and a weekend market. Halaal food on site too.
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Fact of the Day
Mostert's Mill in Mowbray, built in 1796, is the oldest surviving complete windmill in South Africa. It was gutted in the 2021 Table Mountain fire and fully restored to working order by volunteers and Dutch milling experts by April 2024.
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