Twenty-four years after forming in Cape Town, Freshlyground are back with a new album, a new lead vocalist, and a new music video for their single Take Me Home. Mbali Makhoba, who grew up in Imizamo Yethu, steps into the frontwoman role with a voice that's already winning people over. The band head out on a 17-city European tour next month, which feels right for a group whose previous music video, yes, that one with Shakira, has clocked over 4.2 billion YouTube views.

Tshepi is a one-month-old rhino orphan at The Rhino Orphanage in Limpopo who, during a recent spa day mud bath, stuck her tongue out at the camera and immediately became the internet's problem. She was abandoned by her mother. Shortly after birth, rescued by the orphanage, and is now thriving on a diet of zoomies, snoozes, and outdoor adventures. Her name, Tshepi, means "I trust in you" in Setswana. Accurate..

A Southern Fulmar, a seabird whose usual address is somewhere in Antarctic waters, turned up exhausted on a beach in Sandbaai near Hermanus this week, apparently blown off course by the recent storms battering the Western Cape coastline. The Dyer Island Conservation Trust is looking after it. This bird is so rarely seen near South Africa that even the wildlife rehabilitators did a double-take. Pink-and-blue tubenose bill, silver-grey plumage, deeply confused about its location.

Secret Forest Café sits at the edge of Tokai Forest, technically in the open air, technically hidden enough that first-timers always walk slightly too far before they find it. Serves decent coffee and light bites, welcomes dogs, and is surrounded by pines tall enough to make you forget you live in a city. Free to access the forest, cheap to sit down. Saturdays are a good excuse.

Little Lion's Head in Hout Bay is what you climb when you want the views without the queue. The original Lion's Head gets the crowds and the Instagram content. This one, quieter, less signposted, rewards with sweeping looks over False Bay and Hout Bay both. Free, roughly 90 minutes return, and this week's NNE wind should keep it crisp up top.

Siki's Koffee in Khayelitsha has built a reputation that extends well past the neighbourhood, serving quality African coffee in a space that genuinely feels like a community hub. It features regularly on Cape Town township tours, but you don't need a tour to go. Affordable, welcoming, and the kind of place that quietly reminds you how large this city actually is.

Quote of the Day

“The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.”

Jules Verne