CPT Brew – 28th Aug | Blood Drives, Events & City Gems

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A Durbanville school turned its 50th birthday into a giving streak, Cape Town's blood banks need a top-up, and an Athlone kid who taught himself to skate alone is now off to represent South Africa in Russia.

This weekend brings a free Black August tribute at Openwine, stand-up from Yaaseen Barnes, the Woodstock market shuffle, and a clay-pot wine festival out in Somerset West. Round it out with bowling in Claremont, billiards over a proper chat, and a Durbanville sushi buffet built for seconds.

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Headlines

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Eversdal Primary School in Durbanville turned its 50th birthday into a citywide favour: R5,000 a day to a different children's charity for 25 days straight. By tonight's Damus evening, that's fifty organisations and a quarter million rand richer, one gift per year the school's motto, Ons gee, has meant it.

Coffee needs blood too, or at least the Brews who drink it do. The Western Cape's blood banks are down to two days of O positive and O negative, and Western Cape Blood Service wants anyone eligible to roll up a sleeve. Thirty minutes, one small ouch, up to three lives saved.

Jean-Marc Johannes taught himself to skate alone at Athlone Stadium through years of asthma and hospital wards. This month he heads to Russia as South Africa's rep at the International Festival of Youth, five world records deep, inside the Guinness Book he once searched in vain for South African names.

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Events

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Fri 28 Aug, 16:00 R180	Yaaseen Barnes: Just Jokes argues South Africa is the funniest country on the planet, then spends an hour proving it. Two shows a day, so pick a slot.
Fri 28 Aug, 19:00 Free	Zwide Serves Bass presents radicis turns Openwine into a Black August tribute, part bass performance, part lecture on how Black music has always doubled as resistance. Free entry, doors till 1am.
Sat 29 Aug, 09:00 Free	Neighbourgoods Market, Woodstock's original hipster market, still does the Saturday morning shuffle best: vintage racks, a proper bar and enough food stalls to skip breakfast at home.
Sat 29 Aug, 10:00 R450	Thirty-odd Cape winemakers bring their strangest bottles to the Amphora Wine Festival at Lourensford, all aged the old way in clay pots instead of oak. It's a drive to Somerset West, but the glass is included.

Hidden Gems

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Let's Go Bowling at Stadium on Main, Claremont, is a solid way to kick off a weekend, R100 a game, plus laser tag, glow-in-the-dark putt-putt and a pizzeria on site if you want to make a whole afternoon of it. There's a R30 cover charge, redeemable against food or drinks.

Sessions Billiard & Darts on Lower Long Street is a fresh take on a night out, pool, darts and a crew you can actually talk to over the racket. Good one for something different from the usual bar crawl.

Parafish Sushi in Durbanville is running an all-you-can-eat buffet for R205, minimum three portions per order, winter special throws in salmon roses too. Open daily 11am to 10pm, book ahead on weekends.

Fact of the Day

Hermanus is home to the world's only official Whale Crier, who has blown a horn carved from dried kelp to signal southern right whale sightings since 1992.

That's your sip, Brews. Go enjoy the weekend.

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