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Today | High 19°C | Low 11°C | Wind S 11kph, gusting 29kph | Partly sunny, increasing cloud (29%) | Sunrise 7:19am | Sunset 6:20pm
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Eighty-four bollards around the city centre are getting a glow-up, one indigenous bird or flower at a time. The hand-painted crew behind it has covered Upper Waterkant Street in sunbirds, blue cranes and arum lilies, precise enough to make you slow down for a traffic bollard. Even the street furniture has main character energy here.
Liesel Benjamin has spent nearly twenty years scanning the waves above Muizenberg for sharks, back when she was too nervous to speak to strangers about what she'd seen. Two decades in, she's the one calling the shots at the lookout, even if the public still sometimes asks her male colleagues instead. She's the spotter, thanks.
South Africa is watching a Pacific weather pattern that's only reached "Super El Niño" strength three times since 1950, with NOAA now putting the odds above 80%. It could mean a hotter, drier summer with below-normal rainfall from September through December, though the country's heading in with healthy dam levels and soil moisture this time, unlike the last major event in 2015/16.
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Sat 22 Aug, 07:30
Free to watch |
The Bonteheuwel 10km sends runners looping through the neighbourhood from sunrise, a proper community race with a 5km option for anyone easing in. No ticket needed if you're just there to clap. |
Sat 22 Aug, 12:00
Free entry |
Gold Diggers Market takes over Fool's Gold on Dorp Street from noon to five. Mention CPT Brew for 20% off any item, and the already marked-down rails include a R5,000 jacket sitting at R1,500. DMs are open if you want first look. |
Sun 23 Aug, 09:30
Free entry |
Bay Harbour Market fills an old fish factory in Hout Bay harbour with art, craft and fashion stalls, live muso's, and enough braaied fish and fresh bread to make lunch decide itself. Chapman's Peak looms in the background, free. |
Fri 28 Aug, 09:00
From R50 |
Vintage with Love's Big Sale takes over the Cruise Terminal with thousands of pre-loved pieces, streetwear to designer, every rand funding literacy programmes around the country. Worth the diary note. |
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Arlecchino has turned a Sea Point corner into a slice of 1970s Milan, terrazzo floors included, with a Mediterranean menu built for lingering. Not cheap, but the tableside tiramisu earns its keep.
Coffee on Orange in Gardens is part coffee shop, part art gallery, part workspace, and thoroughly photogenic, good luck leaving without an Instagram dump's worth of shots. The banana bread, sliced thick, is the real reason to go back.
Weis in Salt River is worth the trip for the u pour mien alone, springy noodles with an interactive pour, plus a Tokyo chilli ramen that brings proper heat. Dumplings and Hong Kong wings round it out, best ordered as a mix to share.
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Fact of the Day
Bo-Kaap's houses were once required to stay white under lease, so when residents finally could buy their homes, they painted them every colour imaginable in celebration.
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That's your sip, Brews. Weekend's basically here.
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