CPT Brew – 2nd Sept | Springbok Games, Table Mountain & Cat Café

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A Springbok flyover just became a video game, three All Blacks legends got humbled by Table Mountain, and there's a cat café in Noordhoek you need to know about.

Plus: an album launch at The Argyle, the Open Book Festival, a sound bath at City Hall, and Lourensford Market's spring reopening.

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Headlines

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Two days after Airlink's stadium flypast went viral, someone's already turned it into Flappy Link, a Flappy Bird spinoff where the goal is flying as low as possible without crashing. Leaderboard, clearance measurement, cheeky warnings when you cut it too close, and yes, watch out for the Hadedas.

All Blacks legends Dan Carter, Richie McCaw and Stephen Donald swapped the rugby field for Table Mountain on Sunday, and the mountain won this round. Carter, holder of rugby's all-time Test points record, admitted calling it a "run" was optimistic. McCaw, ever the calm captain, called it a great morning for a walk.

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Events

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Sun 6 R200	Soulful and deep house all afternoon at The Argyle in Woodstock, as Thabo Smol launches his album Di Thupa Tsa Smol with Mr Mercedes and Trev The Japanese on the decks. Doors 2pm, sun optional.
4–6 Sep R50/event	Three days of the city's biggest literary gathering at the Open Book Festival, with panels spanning fiction, food writing and African storytelling, plus a marketplace of local authors and small presses.
Tue 8 Ticketed	Immersion turns Cape Town City Hall into a 105-minute wall of sound: gongs, singing bowls, didgeridoos and a live youth choir, all layered together in real time. Less a concert, more a very good, very long nap.
Fri–Sun Free entry	Lourensford Market reopens for spring under the oaks in Somerset West, with a free Bok van Blerk show on opening night. Food, wine and live music, Friday through Sunday.

Hidden Gems

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YU Asian is doing Japanese-inspired izakaya small plates in about as dreamy a setting as you'll find, worth adding to the list for a proper sit-down evening of sharing plates.

Kloof Street House is doing the kind of dinner worth slowing down for, warm ciabatta with a trio of flavoured butters to start, a fillet that goes melt-in-your-mouth after. Gorgeous surroundings to match, a proper date-night pick.

Curiosity Cat Cafe in Noordhoek is a proper bucket-list stop for cat lovers, fluffy, sociable Siberian cats roaming a relaxed coffee-house setting. Book ahead, it fills up, and pair it with a walk on Noordhoek Beach while you're out that way.

Fact of the Day

In 2016, Cape Town became the first city outside Europe to have 10 of its beaches earn Blue Flag status, the global mark for clean water, safety and top-notch facilities.

Go be kind to a stray, dance to something new, and get yourself a Sun Soaked Sunday.
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CPT Brew – 2nd September, 2026

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