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Today | High 18°C | Low 14°C | Broken cloud | Light winds | Cloud 60%
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Porky the young southern elephant seal has made it back to sea after an unexpected pitstop along the KZN South Coast. He was rescued near Port Shepstone when human activity made it impossible for him to rest after a long journey, then rehabbed by a collaborative effort of marine research organisations. He was fitted with flipper tags for future tracking and released on an Eastern Cape beach, heading straight for the water without a backward glance. Cape Town's kind of exit.
Hugo Broos has unveiled Bafana Bafana's 26-man World Cup squad, announced at the Union Buildings in Pretoria. South Africa are drawn in Group A alongside Mexico, Czech Republic, and South Korea. The selection involved some tough calls, and the country is already arguing about every one of them. The tournament begins in June and Cape Town's DHL Stadium will host group stage matches.
The Sanlam Cape Town Marathon now has a disciplinary hearing on its to-do list. Veteran runner and Nedbank Running Club committee member Sihle Mapukata is facing a possible lifetime ban after illegally joining the elite field without proper registration, throwing the race into disarray and sparking outrage in the local running community. The incident has reignited a broader conversation about race integrity and access controls at elite events. Mild chaos, very Cape Town.
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19:30
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Bob Perfect takes the stage at Ground Culture Cafe in Observatory tonight for a solo stand-up set, running thirty to forty-five minutes with special guests along for the ride. Bob has been telling jokes for over a decade, his material running on pop culture, mild misanthropy, and the particular energy of a man who has thought too hard about everything. R70 a ticket, Lower Main Road, and a good room to be in on a Thursday.
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20:00
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The Jive Cape Town Funny Festival is back at the Baxter Theatre's Pam Golding stage, in its 27th year and still Cape Town's best winter comedy tradition. Tonight's bill features an Italian shadow artist, a Britain's Got Talent-finalist singing impersonator, a Spanish balloon sculptor with unsettling energy, and South Africa's own Jason Goliath and Robby Collins. MC Alan Committie holds it all together. No under-16s, which is the right call.
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Free options
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Last Thursdays: Comedy in a Surf Shop launches its very first edition tonight at Atlantic Surf Collective in Blouberg. Headlining is Nate Levinrad, fresh off a two-night solo show, backed by a stacked lineup put together by Ground Culture and Kiff Comedy. The room is a surf shop. There are burgers and beer. This is the inaugural night of what could become a proper Cape Town thing. Free entry options available.
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20:00
Via FIXR
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Bukiwe Zinganto performs live tonight at The Athletic Club and Social on Buitengracht Street. Raised in Nyanga, trained through Women Unite S.A., and a veteran of the Artscape stage, Bukiwe brings a serious voice to a relaxed room in the CBD. Live vocal performance, no frills, just the real thing.
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WHATIFTHEWORLD is a contemporary art gallery tucked into Woodstock that has been quietly showing some of the most interesting South African work since 2008. It focuses on emerging and established local artists with a tendency toward the provocative and the fresh. Entry is free, the space is proper, and it is the kind of place where you end up standing in front of something longer than expected. Worth a Thursday wander before dinner.
Signal Hill is Cape Town's most underused free resource. Drive or walk up after 5pm and you get a panoramic view of the Atlantic Seaboard, the city bowl, Lion's Head, and the sunset doing its thing over Robben Island. There are grassy slopes, people walking dogs, the odd paraglider launching off the edge, and absolutely no admission fee. On a clear Thursday evening it is hard to argue with.
The House of Machines on Shortmarket Street is the kind of bar that only Cape Town could produce: motorcycles on the walls, live music most nights, serious espresso during the day, and enough bourbon on the shelves to keep a Thursday going longer than planned. It draws a neighbourhood crowd that ranges from craft beer converts to people who just finished a gallery opening. No velvet rope. No dress code. Just a good room.
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Quote of the Day
“Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.”
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That's your sip, Brews. Go be a little nosy somewhere nice.
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