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Today | High 23°C | Low 13°C | Wind SSE 22kph, gusting 58kph | Sun through high cloud, 92% cover | Sunset 6:46pm
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Three Cape fur seals got themselves properly stuck at Robinson Dry Dock this week, and the Two Oceans Aquarium's marine team turned the rescue into a full production: net, stretcher, stairs, repeat, three times over. All three swam off looking thoroughly unbothered by the fuss.
UK-based South African food company Biltong & Bangers has made an official offer to buy ProNutro from PepsiCo, everything from the original recipe to the old manufacturing equipment, after the cereal's discontinuation sparked a wave of nostalgia and thousands of comments from South Africans desperate to see it saved.
Forget the limo, this matriculant made her matric dance entrance in a decorated trailer pulled by an orange tractor, and South Africans are calling it the showstopper of the season.
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30 Sep-3 Oct
R180 |
MOSAIC puts three dance companies on one stage at the Artscape Arena, each bringing its own take on identity and movement. Sixty minutes, no interval, a proper change of pace from the usual Saturday night. |
Fri 2 Oct, 19:30
R200 |
Keanan Eksteen brings his band to Cafe Roux on Chapman's Peak Drive, playing songs off new album Starring alongside the older favourites. Kraaifontein-raised, Beatles and Fleetwood Mac in his bones, off on a fifth European tour soon after. Seated tables, doors at 6. |
Sat-Sun 3-4 Oct
R200-R400 |
Franschhoek Classic Car Festival parks forty pre-1995 classics on the Huguenot Monument lawns, plus a Formula One anniversary display. Worth the drive out, and there's a weekend pass if one day won't cut it. |
3-11 Oct
Varies |
Toyota Stellenbosch Woordfees lands its ninth day of theatre, comedy and books, over 400 programme items deep this year including nine Spier Theatre debuts. Book ahead, the good slots go fast. |
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The Foxhole in Woodstock has a burger challenge worth knowing about: finish their R400 Ultimate Burger, a kilogram of Wagyu patties stacked with bacon, cheese, jalapeños and potato wedges, within 7.5 minutes and win a R1000 tattoo voucher, or do it in 4 minutes for R6,500.
The Kraal Restaurant sets up in a shaded stone courtyard at Joostenberg Wine Estate, tables among fruit and olive trees, moving into the old waenhuis once it's cold. A different three-course set lunch every week, twice named a Dineplan Reviewers' Top 10. Weekends only, booking essential.
How's Your Yaki serves skewers and okonomiyaki off a hibachi grill in Gardens, evenings only, from the team behind How's Your Oni. Casual, smoky, and open till 10.
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Fact of the Day
The Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896 is the shortest war on record, lasting about 38 minutes before the losing side surrendered.
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