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Cape Town's a little battered, a little behind, and collectively pretending the weekend was longer than it was. You know the drill.
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Today 21°C high | 16°C low | SSE gusts to 50kph | 90% cloud
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Cloud's pulling a duvet over the Mother City today, 21 up top, 16 at the bottom, and a 50kph south-easter giving your bicycle some firm opinions.
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| Today's Headlines |
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Cape Town's storm response teams have been logging over 1,700 tree complaints since last week's front, with clinics, libraries and roads still being assessed across the Southern Suburbs, Cape Flats and Northern Suburbs. If you're waiting on a repair, you're in a long queue.
Sanlam Cape Town Marathon hits the road on Sunday, and the City has dropped its list of road closures and tow zones covering Green Point, the CBD, Woodstock and most of the Atlantic Seaboard. Plan now or lose your weekend.
The Garden Route just landed sixth on a global ranking of the world's most Instagrammable road trips, with 754,000 hashtags behind it and Norway's Arctic fjords ahead. We're still taking it.
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| Today's Hidden Gems |
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Cafe Paradiso, behind a tall hedge on upper Kloof Street, runs fires in both the bar and the restaurant and pulls wood-fired pizza on 00 flour until midnight, seven days.
Tannin is a three-storey wine bar on Bree Street with 430 SA labels, an open kitchen on the first floor and a cellar upstairs for tastings. Tuesday to Saturday, no excuses.
Tucked on Heritage Square's mezzanine, The Drinkery is a contemporary speakeasy inside a former slave prison, with experiential cocktails and exposed-brick gallery walls. World's 50 Best put it on their Discovery list.
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"Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world."
Desmond Tutu, Capetonian archbishop
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That's your sip, Brews. Stay dry, find a fire.
CPT Brew
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Hit reply and tell us what you're sipping. We read every one.
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