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Tuesday showed up quieter than Monday, which is the least it could do.
The fire's out at Bain's Kloof, the fynbos crew just won gold in London, and Cape Town is doing that thing where it's cold enough to justify a second coffee but warm enough to feel fine about it.
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Today 22°C high | 14°C low | SE gusts to 44kph | 58% cloud
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Cool, breezy, and ever so slightly smug about it, the Mother City is leaning all the way into autumn today.
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| Today's Headlines |
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A wildfire that tore through Bain's Kloof Pass on Monday has been largely contained overnight, with no homes or farms damaged and only smouldering hotspots left on the mountain. Crews are expected to stay on scene until midday.
Overnight resurfacing on Voortrekker, Philip Kgosana Drive and parts of the M3 starts this week, running 7pm to 5:30am Sunday to Friday until late June. Set the Waze accordingly.
Leon Kluge and his team just won gold at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show with a display called Life After Fire, 20,000 stems of fynbos blooms exploring what grows back after a wildfire tears through the Cape. South Africa's 40th Chelsea gold medal, in its 50th year at the show.
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The Wilbur Smith Museum in Bishopscourt is still open until 2pm today, with tickets from R150. A quiet, bookish little tribute to one of Africa’s biggest adventure writers, if you want something slower than another coffee shop scroll. |
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A quiet, weather-proof Tuesday is good District Six Museum weather. R65 gets you into one of the city's most quietly devastating archives of memory, just off Buitenkant. |
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Opening night for Mike van Graan's Double Bill at Kloof Street Hotel. Two solo plays back to back, including the Cape Town premiere of Helen of Troyeville. R165. |
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R30 puts you inside Fairmont High's Clive Wigg Hall for a combined choir and orchestra evening with Bellville High and Tygerberg High. Probably the cheapest live music in town tonight. |
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Nik Rabinowitz is testing brand-new material at Ground Culture in Obs across a four-night run that kicks off tonight. R200 to watch one of SA's sharpest comics actually sweat it out in real time. |
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| Today's Hidden Gems |
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Peter Tempelhoff's farm-to-fire baby Arum at Boschendal is doing a four-course winter set for R595, lunch and dinner, valid through late September. Worth the drive out to Pniel.
SeaBreeze on Bree runs half-price Saldanha and Knysna oysters every day from noon to 1pm and 5pm to 6pm. Slot one of those windows into your week.
Labotessa Café and Terrace, tucked into the cobbles of Church Square, slips from morning coffee to bespoke-blend espressos to a Cape-twist Old Fashioned without changing pace. The bitterballen is a sleeper hit.
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"I wanted to write about Africa as I knew it."
Wilbur Smith
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