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. On 18 April 2023, exactly two years after a devastating fire that destroyed the University of Cape Town’s Jagger Reading Room, the Jagger Library reopened to the public:
Doors to UCT’s Jagger Library opened to the public two years after the fire
9. There’s no doubt that our Mother City plays host to a myriad of paradise-like beaches. Beach visits are arguably an essential part of local and tourist itineraries, come rain or shine:
Watch: Hilarious video of what it’s really like leaving Clifton Beach
8. A massive amount of cocaine worth millions has been found hidden in poultry boxes in a shipping container at Airport Industria:
Shipping container full of cocaine discovered in Airport Industria
7. With the smell of coffee and the sound of sizzling eggs, breakfast truly is the most important (and delicious) meal of the day. Thankfully, the Mother City has no shortage of gems serving up some mouth-watering brekkies that everyone should know about:
6. The Department of Forestry, Fisheries, and the Environment (DFFE) has officially bowed out of managing a Khoisan settlement named Knoflokskraal in Grabouw, Western Cape:
Khoisan occupation in Grabouw is no longer our problem, says forestry department
5. They named it the Castle of Good Hope. What happened inside the walls of this pentagon was far from good. It was untold evil against the slaves of the Cape. When visited in the evening, especially, it is a rather spooky and eerie place, writes Gasant Abarder in a new #SliceofGasant:
4. Table View beachfront’s recent dune rehabilitation project and upgrade efforts have been marred by the sudden influx of vagrants setting up camp on the shore:
Vagrant settlement along Table View beachfront has residents concerned
Cape Town and Western Cape to receive billions in investment
1. An American buyer recently purchased a palatial R69 million Constantia home, which he has since demolished in order to construct a mansion that is more to his taste: