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Today 18°C high | 13°C low | NW wind 17 kph, gusts to 30 kph | Cloud 95% | UV 1
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| Today's Headlines |
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FOUR PAWS South Africa has launched 67 Kennels of Hope, a Mandela Day campaign aiming to fund kennels, food, and care packages for dogs in underserved communities. The target is 67 kennels. Khayelitsha is part of the plan.
Six young Capetonians just won the Cape2Rio Yacht Race on handicap after their boom snapped mid-Atlantic while leading by nearly 25 hours. Most teams would have folded. They re-rigged the sail and kept going.
Another absurdly wholesome travel story is heading toward South Africa after two cyclists riding nearly 18,000km from Norway to Cape Town crossed into Angola this week. If Jason’s skateboard welcome taught us anything, this country does not know how to greet people normally.
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| What To Do Tonight |
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Closes at 17:00
Free entry |
Girls 3000 at Everard Read Cape Town on Portswood Road at the V&A, on until June 2. Twenty-three artists, all women, all working in forms you don’t always see together: painting, sculpture, drawings, the kind of titles that stay with you. “Girl-Life in Cape Town.” “Postpartum.” “Anxiety Doesn’t Go Well With White Stockings.” Africa’s oldest commercial gallery and it still knows how to put a room together. Walk in, no booking required. |
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R100–R180 |
Cape Town Big Band Jazz Festival: Night 1 at the Baxter Concert Hall, Rondebosch. The 26th edition opens tonight with twenty-six youth big bands, an alumni set led by Prof. Mike Campbell and US guest trumpeter Gordon Vernick, and a visiting Bavarian youth ensemble from Germany. R100 for students and seniors. |
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Mike van Graan Double Bill: Helen & Pet-Friendly in the function room at Kloof St Hotel, Gardens. Two solo works: Zolie Markey as a former Black Sash member caught between privilege and petty crime, then Marty Kintu on pet ownership as a lens for everything wrong with the world. Fifty-five minutes each. |
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The Rocky Horror Show at Theatre on the Bay, Camps Bay, closing out May. Craig Urbani as Frank-N-Furter. A Wednesday night with the mountain behind you and a cult musical in front of you is the move. Dress up or regret it. |
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| Today's Hidden Gems |
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Zeitz MOCAA at the V&A Waterfront is free for SA citizens with a valid ID every Wednesday between 10:00 and 13:00. Africa’s largest contemporary art museum, housed inside a converted grain silo. Walk in, no booking required. If you have somehow never been, today is the reason to fix that.
Obz Books at 76 Lower Main Road in Observatory is a second-hand bookshop that doubles as a coffee shop. The kind of place you walk into for five minutes and leave an hour later with four books and a flat white. Cheap, quiet, genuinely good stock.
Reverie Social Table in Observatory is an 18-seat communal supper club running Wednesday to Saturday. Chef Julia Hattingh’s 5-course set menu is built around seasonal, hyper-local produce with optional wine pairings. Book ahead. Not cheap, but the kind of dinner you talk about later.
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Quote of the Day
“Music is life. Music is a way of living. I was music before I was born.”
Miriam Makeba
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That’s your sip, Brews. Stay dry, find a fire.
CPT Brew
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