An award-winning British restaurateur and gin manufacturer has fallen in love with the West Coast. Although Russell Foster owns 17 restaurants in Britain and a craft brewery and gin distillery he spends most of his time in Velddrif. Because this is where his heart is now. It’s here that heRead More

By Tunafeesh Looks like Wednesday is going to be your best option of getting some surfing in with a push in the swell in the late afternoon. The swell tends to drop off for the weekend but the good news is that the temperature increases to 30 degrees on Sunday.Read More

Linza de Jager writes these stoep stories. The thing about living in a small place is that everyone knows everyone. And that can be a problem. I mean, when things that should not be transparent become transparent, things can become sticky… And so it turned out when I met Lovey.*Read More

“We are now at a point where all consumers must use below 100 litres per day,” warns the City’s Mayoral Committee Member for Informal Settlements, Water and Waste Services and Energy, Councillor Xanthea Limberg. Dam levels are at 21,2% storage levels. With the last 10% of a dam’s water mostlyRead More

The City of Cape Town urges the public to avoid Sunset Beach during the course of today. (15 May 2017) The City’s Coastal Management team is in the process of removing a 15m long Brydes whale carcass that washed up on the beach this morning. And although the carcass isRead More

Good news for cyclists and runners! The pink stuff in the parking lot at Derde Steen beach, bodes only good. And although the parking lot looks all rosy, as if its being decked out for a Tinkerbell themed-birthday party, everything’s going to be okay. But it took a little bitRead More

Maak hierdie winter lekker met sjef-en-storieverteller Colyn Serfontein se heerlike sopresep. Deur Colyn Serfontein “Sop … so klein woordjie maar met so groot betekenis. Ek het in die maer jare groot geword en sop was ‘n baie belangrike deel van ons dieet. My ma het altyd geraap en skraap enRead More

Something’s cooking at Trattoria Maranello in Melkbosstrand. Local artist Claudia is busy transforming the backyard of “the house of Ferrari-Food.” When she is finished the “backyard-without-a-view will be very much a backyard-with-a-view, and a distinctly Cape Town one at that. Claudia interrupted her work on the 3-D murals to smileRead More

“Yes, you can take a photo,” the owner of the sea-green dreamboat parked at Slabber se Klippe said Sunday afternoon. And then he looked straight ahead of him again, as did his wife. The photo was after all not going to be of them but of their vintage car. AndRead More

Melkbosstrand has a singing tree. No jokes! The tree in question stands opposite the Seafood Lapa. But for those of you who are going to head over there right now in order to hear it sing, let me just go on record and say that it probably won’t utter aRead More