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Game, Seth, Match – Goodbye 2024
19 Dec 2024 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Just a quick reach-around to say a big thank you to our readers for another epic year. Yip – that’s right – we’re signing off now..
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Cape Town Set To Open 37 Community Swimming Pools This Summer
11 Dec 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
With half of Europe and most of Gauteng descending on our blue-flag beaches in the next few weeks – not to mention the traffic over Kloofnek – the local pool is an easy alternative to keep the kids cool this summer.
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Cape Town’s Urban Footprint Has Increased By 13 Million Square Metres Since 2012
10 Dec 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
That’s 3,608 hectares and equates to an area the size of seventeen Century City developments.
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Over Three Decades Of Juggling, Tightrope Walking, And Hope – The Story Of The Zip Zap Circus
05 Dec 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
It is a dream that started 32 years ago with just a trapeze bar, a costume box, and a rusty old car. Three decades later, their infectious joyfulness has enthralled audiences around the world.
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Thursday Morning Spice
05 Dec 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
French PM to resign after government falls, South Africa’s maths shame, Initiates become latest extortion targets, Four charming small towns near Cape Town to explore, and Commercial flights return to Plettenberg Bay.
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Monday Morning Spice
02 Dec 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Belgium’s sex workers get maternity leave and pensions, Joe Biden issues ‘full and unconditional’ pardon for son Hunter, Max Verstappen accuses George Russell of ‘trying to screw me over’, and How to bring the right wine to a holiday party.
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Cape Town Couple Charged With Keeping Ex-Model As Sex Slave In Bizarre Story
29 Nov 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
The young woman documented her ‘champagne human trafficking’ on Instagram before slamming the couple with lawsuit for keeping her as a sex slave.
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The Western Cape Is Gearing Up For A Bumper Summer Tourism Season
27 Nov 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Ready or not, the December season begins in just a few days, so best wishes to everyone planning to scoop up some of those dollars and pounds flowing into South Africa.
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Nick Frischke’s Family Hopes Green Monkey Campaign Can Help Find Him
25 Nov 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
“We do not want to give up on Nick.”
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Irate Bo-Kaap Residents Protest Against Tour Buses Clogging Up Their Streets
22 Nov 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Locals say they are not opposed to the tourists, but rather the massive buses. “Sometimes they come in three or four or five at a time. It’s really chaos.”
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The Iconic Good Hope Centre Is Set For Redevelopment
21 Nov 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
For the last few decades the iconic centre has been running at an annual loss of R2 million, leaving the City with no option but to lease out the venue as a film studio.
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Update: Body Of Missing Cape Town Hiker Found In Newlands Forest
21 Nov 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
The search for the 66-year-old Cape Town hiker has come to a sad end with the discovery of his body along the Countour Path in the Newlands Forest late yesterday afternoon.
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Searches Under Way For Missing Hiker In Newlands Forest And Young Women Who Disappeared In Bo Kaap/Sea Point
20 Nov 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Naidoo, nicknamed Dhana, was last seen wearing blue pants and a light blue and grey golf shirt. Anyone with information can contact Odette van Staden on 64 700 3023 or email: odettevs@mikebolhuis.co.za
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The V&A Waterfront Moves On With Massive R20 Billion Project To ‘Reclaim Land From The Sea’
19 Nov 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
It seems all systems are go to make the Mother City circle bigger.
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Remember That Alleged Racism Vibe At Hank’s Pub In Bree Street? Check This Out!
19 Nov 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
The owners of Hank’s Olde Irish Pub in Bree Street have been awarded R1.25 million in damages after a December 2022 incident led to false accusations of racism on social media.
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Cape Town Is Being Allowed To Pump As Much Sewage Into The Sea As It Likes
18 Nov 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Cape Town will have more than just Vaalies floating around its beautiful beaches.
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Sotano’s Smart Segue Into Seafood
18 Nov 2024 by Hymie Slabbert / No Comments
There are few better experiences than fresh seafood and cold white wine on a sunny day in summer, with verdant lawns of the promenade, the red and white Cape Town lighthouse and the blue Atlantic providing the backdrop.
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Four New R30 Million+ Homes Listed In Kerzner Estate In Cape Town
05 Nov 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
This 10-hectare estate is enviably located between the coastal towns of Hout Bay and Llandudno, and rarely do plots of this magnitude and so uniquely located, come to market.
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One-Of-A-Kind Cape Heritage Property Famous For Movie Shoots Lists For R45 Million
01 Nov 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
The opulent 2100 m² home was originally built for Carl Jeppe, a prominent Pretoria lawyer, who named the property Trovato, meaning “I find” in Latin.
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Plans Approved For Bellville To Become Cape Town’s Second CBD
01 Nov 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Capetonians driving to work this morning may have heard John Maytham chatting with urban planner Marco Morgan about the city’s intentions to turn Bellville into a second CBD.
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Cape Town Is Heating Up As The City Loses Trees Faster Than They Are Replaced
31 Oct 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
The increase in the number of solar panels is also contributing to Cape Town’s ‘deforestation’.
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Magnum Villa In Camps Bay Transforms Short-Term Rentals Into Instagram-Worthy Experiences (With An Ode To Magnum PI)
29 Oct 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
“Camps Bay reminds me of my favourite TV shows growing up—Magnum, P.I. and Miami Vice—with its white, palm-fringed beaches and big neon lights.”
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Monday Morning Spice
28 Oct 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Why the Kolisi divorce has shaken the nation, Carlos Sainz wins Mexico GP, Trump takes over Madison Square Garden, Why the WordPress row matters, and Robert Downey Jr. confronts Elon Musk ‘Cosplaying Tony Stark’.
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Jeremy Loops Announces Cape Open Air 2024: A Celebration Of Local Talent At Muizenberg Park [Video]
25 Oct 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
With the picturesque ocean as the backdrop, the event boasts a packed lineup starting from midday, leading up to sunset headline performances.
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UPDATE: Fire At Table Mountain Cableway Leaves 400 People Stuck On Mountain [Video]
24 Oct 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Good thing too in this heat and wind. Summer is here, and so is fire season, unfortunately.
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Café Caprice Invites You To The Opener Of Their Cocoon Summer Series Parties
24 Oct 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
With breathtaking views set against a pulsating take on Afrohouse, there will be few places more happening than this jol come the weekend.
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Six-Month Annual Visa For Portugal Is Easier To Get Than You Think – Then You Crack The Residency
23 Oct 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
In short, it’s a golden ticket to living in Portugal without needing a job there.
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Milnerton And Table View Residents Are Fighting To Preserve Endangered Fynbos On Site Of Proposed 337 Flats
21 Oct 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
“More than 50% of Erf 38599 shows to be critically endangered, with a large portion being a national wetland.”
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Bodies Of Cape Town Gang Boss And Associate Found Murdered Nearly Four Months After Kidnapping
17 Oct 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
The pair went missing on 30 June, a few hours after travelling from Cape Town to Gauteng where they were supposed to attend a meeting.
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Thursday Morning Spice
17 Oct 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
SuperSport tackles Saru over Springbok deal, The world’s scariest countries in which to drive, Russia unleashes 130 drones on Ukraine, and How does WhatsApp make money?
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