A fabulous Romeo and Juliet is a wonderful start to Cape Town City Ballet’s winter season
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A longer walk to freedom (if you are a woman)
Since 1956 South Africans have said ‘You strike a woman, you strike a rock’ … why are we stuck in the dark ages then
Are there any other Capo Cassidys out there?
Same-same but different: a quirky-but-cool digital ad series from 10X Investments
Perfection at a wine bar called Publik
An unpretentious hole-in-the-wall wine bar in Cape Town selling wine by the glass at fair prices? I kid you not
Feast on local flavours and support our future foodies
Savouring local flavours and supporting local foodies of the future at a different kind of food market
Direct non-stop Atlanta to Cape Town
Delta has announced the launch of a direct non-stop Atlanta-Cape Town service
Hot tickets: Ndlovu Youth Choir in CT, Jozi
Don’t miss the finalists of America’s Got Talent in their first headline tour at home
Seeing the light in dark times
It is always 10 times more fun to look on the bright side … and there is a competition to win an inverter
Remembering Frantz Fanon – six great reads
To celebrate the great man’s birthday Thabo Leshilo curates a feast of reading
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Set up for a season of love, hope and happiness
A fabulous Romeo and Juliet is a wonderful start to Cape Town City Ballet’s winter season
A longer walk to freedom (if you are a woman)
Since 1956 South Africans have said ‘You strike a woman, you strike a rock’ … why are we stuck in the dark ages then
Are there any other Capo Cassidys out there?
Same-same but different: a quirky-but-cool digital ad series from 10X Investments
Perfection at a wine bar called Publik
An unpretentious hole-in-the-wall wine bar in Cape Town selling wine by the glass at fair prices? I kid you not
Feast on local flavours and support our future foodies
Savouring local flavours and supporting local foodies of the future at a different kind of food market
Direct non-stop Atlanta to Cape Town
Delta has announced the launch of a direct non-stop Atlanta-Cape Town service
Hot tickets: Ndlovu Youth Choir in CT, Jozi
Don’t miss the finalists of America’s Got Talent in their first headline tour at home
Seeing the light in dark times
It is always 10 times more fun to look on the bright side … and there is a competition to win an inverter
Remembering Frantz Fanon – six great reads
To celebrate the great man’s birthday Thabo Leshilo curates a feast of reading
Killer whales hunting great whites on SA coast
A couple of bloodthirsty Orcas might make it safe for us to go back into the water but their killing spree is upsetting the delicate ecosystem and threatening at-risk species
Backstory to the images from deep space
Words that even more thrilling than than the photographs, eg a stellar nursery of gas and dust 7,600 light-years away where new stars are forming and destroying their birth cloud
Homelessness in the Mother City
In the bleak midwinter, Capetonians are asking what the city is doing to help the many many homeless people setting up camp on the streets and in the parks. This is what the city says
CT mayor’s 10-point plan to power up SA
As SA waits in the dark for President Ramaphosa to turn the lights back on Geordin Hill-Lewis gives him a detailed list of action points. Let’s hope we get some detailed answers
A Mandela Day hack in the ‘hood
Highly flammable invasive species fuel the fires on Table Mountain and then out-compete the fynbos in the recovery period. Pulling them out is an environmental good … and a great way to process stress and burn calories
Killing the caracals
New research shows how living close to humans is poisoning the few remaining caracals that live in and around the Mother City. A reminder to shop and consume with care
Sell now and miss the recovery? Don’t be crazy
A timely reminder that in 9 years after the 2008 crash the markets more than tripled in value
Patrice Lumumba’s remains repatriated at last
I think of him as Congo’s Nelson Mandela … imagine if our Madiba had suffered the same fate
Current Affairs
A longer walk to freedom (if you are a woman)
Since 1956 South Africans have said ‘You strike a woman, you strike a rock’ … why are we stuck in the dark ages then
Seeing the light in dark times
It is always 10 times more fun to look on the bright side … and there is a competition to win an inverter
CT mayor’s 10-point plan to power up SA
As SA waits in the dark for President Ramaphosa to turn the lights back on Geordin Hill-Lewis gives him a detailed list of action points. Let’s hope we get some detailed answers
Food & Drink
Feast on local flavours and support our future foodies
Savouring local flavours and supporting local foodies of the future at a different kind of food market
Perfection at a wine bar called Publik
An unpretentious hole-in-the-wall wine bar in Cape Town selling wine by the glass at fair prices? I kid you not
A delicious one night stand with the Test Kitchen
I am told that this should have an age-restriction. If you can’t handle a little food porn turn away now. Our little fling with the Test Kitchen, a story written by us and for us … never to be repeated
A tale of two cities
Goodbye Camps Bay, hallo Church Square, where fine food and gracious hospitality trump great views and airbrushed people
Health
The battle of the plagues
Still, the Global Fund says, ‘the pandemic presents us with a chance to build a better, more equitable and healthier world’
Interactive map gives snapshot of vaccination rollout in Africa
Amazing map provides an easy reference of where Africa is at re Covid-19 jabs (and might just introduce many to countries they had not heard of before)
U=U brings an Aids-free world into sight
Overwhelming evidence is causing a cultural shift in HIV prevention
Learning to live with the plague
As it becomes accepted that herd immunity is not going to happen, at least not in our lifetimes, the focus turns to learning to live with Covid-19
Call Off The Search
A survivor’s guide to train travel in SA
A 10-point guide to resisting the South African railway service’s best efforts to ruin what should be one of the most beautiful train journeys in the world.
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