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Today | High 18°C | Low 10°C | Wind NW 22 km/h | Cloudy afternoon, some morning sun | Sunrise 7:47 | Sunset 17:49
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A long-overdue win for Gugulethu: the City of Cape Town has connected 193 households to the electricity grid as part of a R2.5 million infrastructure drive. The project forms part of the city's ongoing push to formalise informal settlements and bring basic services to long-underserved areas. One project. 193 families. A whole lot of changed lives.
Staff at a Free State rescue sanctuary arrived to an overnight miracle: Daisy, a newly rescued donkey, had delivered a foal. Nobody on site had even realised she was pregnant when she was brought in. Two became three, and the internet, predictably, has a lot of feelings about it. Mom and foal are both reportedly doing well.
A Cape Town drone pilot has landed a Guinness World Record, keeping his custom-built Endurance Drone airborne for 4 hours, 21 minutes and 39 seconds, smashing the previous record by a wide margin. Watch how Luke Bell engineered the record-breaking flight, months of redesigns, lighter carbon fibre arms, and a mid-flight route change that squeezed every last watt from the battery. It's his second Guinness title this year, after reclaiming the record for fastest battery-powered RC quadcopter earlier in 2026.
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Mon
R80–R120 |
Ithuna opens tonight at the Baxter’s Masambe Theatre, opening night of a haunting physical theatre piece about a man who retreats to live among the graves after his wife disappears. Poetic, physical, unforgettable. Runs 6–11 July. 19:00. Rondebosch. |
Mon
R275–R350 |
The Pirates of Penzance sets sail at Artscape, the Cape Town Gilbert & Sullivan Society with a full cast, a 26-piece live orchestra, and all the swashbuckling comic opera you can handle. Running 4–12 July. 19:30. Cape Town CBD. |
Tue
R180 |
Alistair Izobell’s Rocking at 50 at the Baxter Studio is 100 minutes of original music, razor-sharp storytelling, and mid-life confessions from four men who refuse to act their age. Relentless and warm. 20:00. Runs until 18 July. No under 16s. Rondebosch. |
Hol
R70 |
A neon-lit pop-up ice rink at Capegate for the school holidays, trained skating pros on hand, glow-in-the-dark vibes, and enough wobble-catching to tire everyone out beautifully. Ages 3–15. On until 19 July. Northern Suburbs. |
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Curry Club (De Waterkant) is the restaurant everyone kept mentioning. What started as a lockdown-era cook-in-your-garage delivery business is now a full-on London style Punjabi flight kitchen, curries built block by block with your choice of spice level, rice or cauliflower rice.
Hokey Poke (Church Street, CBD), poke bowls done properly. Build your own from salmon, avocado, edamame and more, or let the set bowls do the thinking. Healthy, genuinely filling, and one of the nicest lunches going in the City Bowl.
Lekker (Kalk Bay), a little café in a seafront village that earns its name. The mains hold up, the coffee is solid, and the red velvet cake is the real reason you’re there. Perfect pit-stop en route to Simon’s Town or Boulders.
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Quote of the Day
“There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.”
Alan Paton
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Stay warm, Cape Town. Monday’s made for it.
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