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Today 23°C / 13°C | Wind W, gusts 27km/h | Cloud 13% | Mostly sunny, rain moves in late
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Cape Town SPCA inspector Nakita Sutter laced up for the Blouberg 10km on World Animal Day this weekend, the kind of training block you sign up for once a rescued dog named Stormie rearranges your whole life. She adopted the dog first, then let the dog's example talk her into cardio.
Brace your wallet: petrol is projected to jump by over R3 a litre on 7 October, which would put 95 at about R30.20 and make it the most expensive petrol South Africa has ever seen, with diesel climbing to as much as R33.24 on the back of higher oil prices and a weaker rand. The numbers still need official confirmation.
Seeing bulldozers pushing sand into the sea at Muizenberg, Fish Hoek and Hout Bay? It's the City's annual beach lowering programme, which keeps more sand wet and on the beach so summer's strong south-easters don't bury nearby roads, with work running until mid-November and the beaches staying open throughout.
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Fri 9 Oct
Free |
Century City's Summer Night Market takes over Urban Square on Energy Lane from four to nine, with street food, local crafts and live music to ease you into the weekend. It runs cashless, so bring a card or your Zapper. |
Sat 10 Oct
Free |
Kommetjie's Peach Pip Market throws open Rodger's Fruiterers on Saturday morning for fresh produce, home bakes, secondhand finds and the kind of unhurried browsing a Southern Peninsula weekend was built for. |
Sat 10 Oct
R200 |
District Six's Star Theatre hosts Joey Rasdien Live, one of South Africa's most loved comedians working through family, marriage and the particular chaos of everyday local life. Doors at quarter past seven, show starts at quarter past eight. |
Sat 10 Oct
From R150 |
Botanik Social House in Gardens turns into a dance floor for HAÜS SÖCIAL EXPERIENCES, a one-night Amapiano, Gqom and Afrobeats takeover built on Pretoria's party culture. Doors at nine, last song somewhere past three. Over 18s only. |
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Focaccia Bar on Loop Street is dedicated entirely to Italian flatbread, with 24-hour fermented dough, imported Italian meats and local Italian cheeses built into eight sandwiches by a trio of chefs with La Colombe and Pier on their résumés, plus a co-working space and free wifi upstairs.
Little Fox at Constantia Nek is the more relaxed sibling of La Colombe, serving a globally influenced small plates menu made for sharing in a historic thatched building, with wide courtyard seating looking straight up at the mountain and a wine list leaning heavily on the Constantia Valley.
Lucky Lou at the top of Kloof Street from the team behind Maggy Lou's and Only Fools, an all-rounder that works as a work-from-café by day, a weekend breakfast spot, a post-run coffee stop and an after-work waterhole, open 7am to 11pm every day.
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Fact of the Day
The Cape Doctor, Cape Town's notorious south-easter, earned its nickname because locals once believed the wind blew pollution and pestilence clean out of the city.
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