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Today | High 31°C | Low 17°C | Wind ENE 11km/h | Hazy sunshine | Sunrise 06:25 | Sunset 18:48
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Team SA brought serious energy to the opening ceremony of the MWF World Championships in Poland, with the South African Majorette and Cheerleading Association proudly repping the country's colours alongside athletes from around the world.
Cape Town Stadium's urine-to-fertiliser system collected 3,600 litres during the Springboks vs All Blacks match alone, and its co-founder, chemical engineer Dyllon Randall, is now one of four finalists competing for the £50,000 2026 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation.
Most dassies stick to the beach, but this one decided it wanted to be a mountain dassie instead, and its face on Table Mountain says it's still deciding if that was the right call.
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Thu 1 Oct, 18:30
Ticketed |
WYN's Winemaker's Evening is a proper deep dive, with Leeuwenkuil pouring bold, dryland Swartland reds grown on granite with a wild streak to match. Small room, big pours, worth the trip out to Loevenstein. |
Fri 2 Oct, 18:30
R175 |
Somerset West Night Shelter holds its annual Art and Wine Auction, a bidding room of donated artworks with wine and canapés on arrival, proceeds funding shelter and meals for homeless families in the Helderberg. |
Sat 3 Oct, 20:00
R120 |
Lavender Hill's own Keenan Cerff brings his call-centre-and-Cape-Flats storytelling to Observatory's smallest stage, the same comic Trevor Noah handpicked for NationWild. |
3-4 Oct
R100 |
Sixty-odd stalls of prams, nursery gear and maternity wear set up at D'aria Wine Estate in Durbanville for the Mommy and Me Expo, free entry for under-12s. |
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Tamboers Winkel is a five-table hole in the wall off Kloof Street, coffee by day and up to fifty wines by the glass once the sun goes down.
Kanela Cafe on Regent Road, Sea Point, does vegan mac and cheese and Ugandan-roasted coffee in a quiet courtyard. Meals from R60.
New in Sea Point, BABY is a cocktail bar dressed as an eighties time capsule, disco ball and leopard print included, prawn tacos and teriyaki skewers on the side. Food from R75.
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Fact of the Day
Boulders Beach's African penguin colony started with a single breeding pair in 1982 and has since grown into a waddling thousands-strong crowd.
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