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. Ferdinando’s serves South Africa’s favourite pizza, according to diners who voted in this year’s Porcupine Ridge Pizzeria Challenge:
Ferdinando’s voted as South Africa’s most loved pizzeria
9. Franschhoek is a small town in the Western Cape province of South Africa that has been featured on Time Magazine’s prestigious list of World’s Greatest Places for 2022. Dubbed the Valley of Dreams, it’s home to some seriously heavenly restaurants. Check out our list of 20 restaurants in Franschhoek to visit, with many more options to follow:
8. South African actress Charlize Theron has opened up about her Afrikaans background in the latest episode of the “Smartless” podcast:
7. Let’s take a walk down memory lane with these images of what Cape Town used to look like, with most of the images dating back as far as the early 1900s:
6. Following the City cutting off illegal electricity connections recently, the residents of Mfuleni, an informal settlement near Cape Town, have vowed to fight back against the operation:
Update: Mfuleni residents respond to disconnect of illegal electricity
5. A mother from Retreat in Cape Town has had to resort to begging on the street just to buy diapers for her disabled son. Blessing Mupamhanga says her wish is for her 15-year-old son, Donnel, to go to school:
Cape Town mother has to beg for money to buy nappies for her disabled son
4. If you’ve driven along the False Bay Coast in the last week and wondered what all the commotion at the Kalk Bay Harbour is about, allow us to let you in on a little (big) secret:
Look! We’re spilling the tea on what’s happening at Kalk Bay Harbour
3. 28-year-old Suritha Alting, a makeup artist from Cape Town, was found bleeding from multiple stab wounds to her body in Sylvia Street, Richwood over the weekend:
2. Cape Town and the city of Portsmouth in southern England have entered into discussions around the potential for establishing a formal sister city link:
Cape Town may soon have its first sister city link in the UK
1. I love Woodstock. It’s in the blood that courses through my veins. It’s where I spent my formative years. A first crush, a first kiss and the place I made lifelong friends, writes Gasant Abarder:
The stealing of a suburb: More Gym and less Pie in Woodstock’s Gympie Street
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