Cape Town is the first port of call for the Volvo Ocean Race after departing from Alicante in Spain on the 29 October. This is considered to be the toughest team sport in the world contested by crews of 11 professional sailors in temperatures ranging from -15 to +40ºC. In addition, since no fresh produce [...]
1. See the much talked about Tretchikoff Exhibition at Iziko South African National Gallery and decide for yourself whether he was an artistic genius or commercial king of kitsch. Or both! On until 25 September. 2. If you haven’t visited Casa Labia in Main Road Muizenberg yet, then their Intimate Surfaces exhibition presented by [...]
Now overlooked by multi-million Rand apartments and Cape Grace, the old harbour office in the V&A Waterfront, dating back to the late 1800s, has a role in history that might make you a little squeamish. The date is sometime between 1900 and 1902 and the futile Anglo-Boer War is devastating South Africa. It’s a war [...]
A man waved his wife and friends goodbye as they took off from the V&A Helipad for a flip around the peninsula. When asked why he didn’t go with them he said, “I won’t go on a boat because I can’t swim, so I won’t get into that helicopter because I can’t fly!” That kind [...]