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Today | Wed 3 June | High 16°C | Low 14°C | SE winds, gusts ~50 km/h | Overcast — cut-off low pushing through
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Wages lost his home, clothes, food, and running shoes in a fire during Cape Town Marathon week. Then a strange chain of kindness put Adrian Goslett at a dinner with Eliud Kipchoge, a free pair of Nike shoes, and one very clear thought: these belonged to someone else. Wages got his running shoes back.
A family in Kommetjie has been sharing their pool with a resident Cape clawless otter family for three years running. Sometimes two otters arrive. Sometimes nine. The dog barks at the door, the otters pile in, and the family has essentially just accepted this as their life now. Cape Town, doing its thing.
Ultra-runner Lodelia Kombrink crossed the 166km MUT Miler finish line as first woman, fourth overall, and women’s course-record holder, while raising awareness for Matla A Bana. After 117km, she kept going for the children she was running for. Human connection carried her through the mountains.
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14:30
R90 |
Taxi Driver — 50th Anniversary is screening at the Labia tonight. De Niro, Scorsese, 1976. Still the most uncomfortable 114 minutes you can spend in a cinema. R90, Orange Street, worth every cent. |
19:30
Ticketed |
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder closes its run at The Masque in Muizenberg on Saturday — tonight’s one of the last chances. Tony Award-winning musical comedy about a man systematically eliminating his way up an inheritance list. Morbidly hilarious, apparently. |
20:00
R150–R180 |
Commission Continua at the Baxter Masambe is a one-man meditation on South Africa’s commissions of inquiry — what gets documented, what gets buried, and the distance between the two. Runs to 13 June. Stark, precise, and internationally toured for good reason. |
20:00
R250 |
Constellations by Nick Payne at the Baxter Studio — a two-hander about love, quantum theory, and every possible version of a relationship playing out at once. Runs to 20 June. The kind of play you think about on the drive home. |
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Woodstock Cave is a 50-metre-wide crack in the Devil’s Peak mountainside with a cityscape view that never gets old. A 2–3 hour return hike from Tafelberg Road or the Rhodes Memorial parking lot, completely free, and in winter a proper waterfall spills from the cave’s upper lip. Named after an 1890s farmer. Bring a flask.
Ground Art Caffe in De Waterkant is a tiny coffee bar-meets-gallery at 160 Strand Street, with local art rotating through the space every couple of months. Go for the cortado, stay for the courtyard calm, then pretend you only came for culture and not the panini. Open for breakfast and light lunches.
Loading Bay on Hudson Street in De Waterkant is half concept store, half very good cafeteria — Aesop, ethical fashion, proper coffee, and no pressure to leave. It’s the kind of place Capetonians mention when asked where they actually go, not where they send visitors.
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Quote of the Day
“I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, enduring.”
Miriam Makeba
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That’s your sip, Brews. Stay warm, find a good window.
CPT Brew
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