Cape Town, My City.

Waitressing is a strange profession. Most people hate it, but then there are a few select individuals that find it an easy and lucrative venture. I fall into the latter category. Even though I’ve had various grown-up nine to five jobs, I always manage to squeeze in a few waitressing shifts throughout the week. It’s [...]

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 worthwhile restaurants and dining establishments (to [...]

I 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 [...]

Someone pinch me… I still cannot get over the fact that I am now a Capetonian. It all happened so fast. Let me back track and start from the top. Two months ago my life read like this:
“Girl, 24 years old, single, living in a granny-flat …with her parents, broke, stuck- [...]

Once upon a time, in a land far, far away there was a magical valley that lay where two rivers converged. Once home to large herds of elephant, the land was divided by the king and given to farmers to till. Soon enough the fertile soil started to sprout vines heavy with fruit. The farmers [...]

2010 draws near. What was once a dream, is now a reality and investors, developers and businessman are scrambling to take advantage of what will most likely be an incredibly lucrative investment. Our glorious Green Point stadium is currently underway and is looking to be the an amazing breakfast-bowl shaped stadium. There are other stadiums [...]

It’s Saturday and the streets are buzzing, liquor stores are coining it while proud Capetonians walk around with Stormers jerseys.
The Vodacom Super 14 has taken Cape Town by storm and rugby enthusiasts are walking around with adrenalin sizzling in their veins. With people from all over living in Cape Town and its surrounds- [...]