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A Somerset West petrol station comment talked a stranger into finally quitting her job, leopards are back on the West Coast after 170 years gone, and a serious El Niño is on the way.
Louis Mhlanga's bringing jazz guitar to the Artscape, Fish Hoek and Clovelly open their studios for the weekend, the V&A's record fair hits the Watershed, and Observatory's Natural Mystic throws a house party Saturday night.
Plus Green Point's old deli counter, a Sea Point bakery on its fourth address, and a Gardens bakery that's never needed a queue.
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Today 18°C / 11°C | Wind SW, gusts 51km/h | Cloud 17% | Mostly sunny and cooler
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A stranger leaned into a car window at a Somerset West petrol station and told the woman inside she had her head on her shoulders. She had been nerving herself up to resign after thirteen years at the same job, and that one line was the nudge she needed to finally do it.
After disappearing from the region for more than 170 years, leopards are naturally returning to the West Coast, with conservationists now recording seven, including two cubs, moving through the landscape.
Scientists say a very strong El Niño is developing, with the South African Weather Service warning it could be the strongest in living memory and that a hotter summer with below-normal rainfall is the most likely outcome, though they stress it isn't guaranteed to hit every region the same way.
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Giovanni's Deliworld has stacked Green Point's cheese counter and charcuterie board since 1989, newly passed to a different family who kept every staff member exactly where they were.
Denise's Delights started as a home kitchen hobby in 1989 and has followed its loyal Sea Point customers through four different addresses since.
Oswalds Bakery on Union Street has kept Gardens stocked with fresh bread for years, the unflashy kind of corner bakery that never needed a queue to prove itself.
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Fact of the Day
The Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town's oldest surviving building, went up as a fortress in the sixteen sixties and has never once been attacked in three and a half centuries of standing guard.
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