From Hollywood coming to Cape Town with the news that Tom Cruise will be shooting here for Mission Impossible’s latest instalment to ‘mysterious’ people in red cloaks roaming the V&A Waterfront – it’s been a wild week of news for the Mother City. Here are our Top 10 most-read stories of the week:
10.A huge great white shark was spotted in Overberg’s waters
Look! Cape Town photographer captures the “biggest great white shark I have ever seen”
9.Two teenagers, two murders and two clubs in two weeks. Locals question who is actually protecting our youth:
First murder outside Tin Roof, now Madison Avenue – who is protecting the youth?
8.Tom Cruise is set to film scenes for Mission Impossible 8 in Cape Town!
Mission Impossible 8, featuring Tom Cruise, to be filmed in Cape Town
7. A neighbourhood watch group shaped fears in a Cape suburb, and this is how:
How a neighbourhood watch WhatsApp group shaped fears in a Cape Town suburb
6. A plague of frogs? Overstrand faced with thousands:
Thousands of African clawed frogs plague the Overstrand municipality
5. It happens to the best of us – locals react to an ‘I know my car’ situation gone wrong for a Ferrari
WATCH: Ferraris only run fast with petrol, and this one fell short in Cape Town
4. A video went viral of mysterious people in red roaming the V&A, but who were these Handsmaid’s Tale-looking characters?
3. Choo-choo in blue! PRASA’s blue train took a long-awaited trip through Kalk Bay
2. A local shared her thoughts on the begging crisis in Cape Town
“Begging in Cape Town has numbed my empathy” says local woman
1.The Tinder Swindler ignites reactions from Cape Town
Cape Town reacts to Netflix’s latest binge, Tinder Swindler, and we’re unpacking the hype
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