As schools across Cape Town close on Friday, 26 June 2026, thousands of children are set to begin their winter holidays, with the City rolling out a wide-ranging programme aimed at keeping young people safe, active and entertained. Public libraries and recreation facilities will welcome children and young people from Friday, offering structured holiday activities combining fun and supervision during the school break. The programme includes a mix of educational and recreational
June is almost done. The halfway mark of the year has arrived. Those New Year’s resolutions? Some are thriving. Others… well, there’s still time. And while summer may feel a long way off, here’s a festive little fact: Christmas is now closer than last Christmas. That’s right — from here on out, it’s a downhill run to the holidays. So this weekend, Smile FM is celebrating the midpoint of the year
Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis says the DA is not resting on its laurels ahead of the upcoming local government elections, amid strong competition from other political parties. Speaking at the Cape Town Press Club at Kelvin Grove yesterday, mainly to highlight the progress the City has made over the last 4 and a half years, and plans for the future, Hill-Lewis acknowledged that this November’s local polls will be fiercely contested.
The founder of the controversial movement, March and March, Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma, has said that her group will not accept blame if chaos and lawlessness break out next Tuesday. That’s when planned mass anti-illegal immigration demonstrations are anticipated to take place. March and March has been the driving force behind anti-immigration sentiments and growing nationwide protests, having called for foreign nationals to leave the country by end of this month. In the past week, more than 12,000 migrants have left South Africa across the Beitbridge
There is a robust colony of African Penguins in the Cape. That’s according to South African National Parks. SANPARKS says encouraging results were recorded from the latest report of the 2026 annual African penguin census conducted at the Boulders colony in Table Mountain National Park. African Penguins’ robust colony in the Cape Using standardised, internationally recognised census methods to ensure consistency and comparability, the team recorded 790 breeding pairs of African penguins.
