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Today | High 19°C | Low 13°C | SSE wind 17 kph, gusting 28 kph | Cloud 26%
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The City Council has just approved 693 new informal trading bays across the metro, adding to over 6,000 that already exist. More dedicated street-trading spots across Cape Town's neighbourhoods. Online reaction has been warm and the traders who've been waiting are ready.
Tyla cleaned up at the 2026 American Music Awards this week, winning Social Song of the Year for Chanel and Best Afrobeats Artist. She was nominated in four categories. South Africa noticed.
For nearly a decade, the Roodekrans Neighbourhood Watch has been GPS-mapping manholes and reporting sewage leaks on a stream running past the Walter Sisulu Botanical Garden, chasing two municipalities that kept blaming each other. It worked: fish surveys now show the Marico barb thriving across the full stretch, with honey badgers, servals, and caracals confirmed back on camera traps.
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18:00
Free entry |
Sound & Spice Family Night & Market at Riverside College, Burgundy Estate. Curry dishes, wine bar, live entertainment and market stalls in a school courtyard. The sort of Friday night that works for everyone at the table. |
19:00
R100–R180 |
Cape Town Big Band Jazz Festival, Night 2 at the Baxter Concert Hall. Twenty-seven big bands across four nights; proceeds fund music programmes in under-resourced communities. Good night for the ears and a decent excuse to go to Rondebosch. |
19:00
R250 |
Night Crawlers x The Studio at 12 Ravenscraig Road, Woodstock. DJ-led evening at one of the neighbourhood's better rooms. Small venue, good sound, no plan required beyond showing up. |
19:30
R180 |
Vafa Naraghi: Becoming South African at the Star Theatre in District Six. Iranian-South African comedian brings his nationally touring one-man show to the Homecoming Centre. Sharp, local, and by all accounts very funny. |
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Chart Farm in Wynberg is a working rose farm where you pick your own blooms straight from the beds, surrounded by mountain views. Entry is around R10, roses are R6 a stem, and there's a café serving tea and scones on site. Open daily 9am to 4pm. Bring someone who deserves flowers.
!Khwa ttu sits about an hour north of Cape Town on the R27 and is the cultural home of the San, Southern Africa's first people. Guided tours run through the landscape with San storytellers and trackers, sharing food traditions and knowledge that predate the Cape Colony by several thousand years. Around R250 per person. A day trip that genuinely shifts your sense of time.
Just Nuisance in Simon's Town is the only dog ever officially enlisted in the Royal Navy. Able Seaman Just Nuisance, a Great Dane, had his own service record, pay grade, and ceremonial burial on the hillside in 1944. His bronze statue stands in Jubilee Square and his grave is a short walk up the slope. Free. Strange. Completely Cape Town.
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Quote of the Day
“I cannot imagine being happy anywhere else in the world but in Cape Town - South Africa in general, but Cape Town in particular.”
Christoffel Wiese
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That's your sip, Brews. Go find something worth telling someone about on Monday.
CPT Brew
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