There are many reasons to visit the Mother City. We have the Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, a whole host of incredible beaches, the Waterfront, Table Mountain, the Constantia wine route, a penguin colony, antique stores aplenty, colourful street performers, a laughably good exchange rate and the bulk of South Africa’s...
read moreI think about videogames constantly. As a child in Cape Town, it was not the tennis courts or the soccer fields which called my name, but the incessant beeping of my Famicon [Nintendo] console. From a very young age, my calling was the arcades. I remember my father having to hoist me up so that I could reach the greasy controls of...
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Even after severe warnings that I would be facing imminent drugging and sexual abuse from the predators that would be lurking and circling like sharks in the feeding frenzy that is Long Street, I still went. Driven by pure determination to spend my first New Years among the crazy crowd that inhabits Long Street after hours, I...
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