As always, we’re keeping you in the loop and making sure that you never miss a Cape Town moment. Here are our Top 10 stories of the week:
10. In January this year, Mynt Cafe announced that it will be closing its doors on the iconic sunset strip of Camps Bay to make way for a new 100-room hotel:
Video: Mynt Cafe goes down, new 100-room hotel to go up
9. The owner of a pit bull is facing charges of animal cruelty, obstruction and malicious damage to property after allegedly verbally abusing a Cape of Good Hope (CoGH) SPCA Inspector and damaging the organisation’s vehicle:
Pit bull owner faces charges for alleged abuse of SPCA inspector
8. Just released to the market are 53 freestanding homes in Pettigo Crescent, which represents a pocket development within the greater estate that is fully complete, with roads, landscaping and finishes impeccably delivered:
Move-in ready homes now available at the popular Sitari Country Estate
7. After a week of radio silence and concerned fans, Mark Pilgrim has provided an update on his health via his social media platforms:
6. There are few cafés that serve up views like those from the new Bites Beach Café by Morukuru Family De Hoop or whose walls could speak of times past. Bites breathes new life into an ancient structure:
5. Inspectors of the Cape of Good Hope SPCA rescued a starving pony from a school property in Bridgetown. The pony was discovered thoroughly emaciated, lying on the ground, unable to get up:
The SPCA rescues an emaciated pony from a desolate school property
4.“Mow shedding” has been lifted at community parks and other public spaces as the City of Cape Town’s mowing tender has been finalised:
3. The Tourism Sentiment Index (TSI), a travel data intelligence solution made by the destination marketing agency Destination Think, has named three places in the Western Cape as “Leading Places: The 100 Most Loved Destinations Around the World” for 2023:
Three Western Cape destinations named among the world’s “100 Most Loved”
2. The City of Cape Town reminds residents that software for all prepaid electricity meters in South Africa will expire in 2024. Prepaid metering software must be updated or customers will not be able to recharge their meters with new tokens, and will be left without power supply:
1. Former Springbok rugby captain Jean de Villiers has been praised for swiftly catching a shoplifter who had stolen goods from a butchery in Paarl:
Former Springbok captain chases down thief at Paarl butchery
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