Cape Town Bike festival cancelled

The Cape Town Bike Festival (CTBF), scheduled to take place at the Cape Town Stadium from 16-18 December, has been cancelled due insufficient sponsorship and poor ticket sales. The CTBF’s programme featured international artists, riders, expos and celebrities and had been...

Cape Town community TV goes global

Cape Town's community television channel CTV has begun streaming worldwide via the internet, enabling Cape Town expats to view television programmes from back home. It also has a daily news slot at 19.55 which is repeated on the Qatar-based Al...

Cape Town’s new diamond museum

The Cape Town Diamond Museum has recently opened in the city’s Clock Tower district at the V&A Waterfront. The museum is dedicated to South Africa’s leading role in the international diamond industry and provides visitors with the opportunity to track...

Cape Town hopes to win World Design Capital prize

Cape Town is vying against Spain’s Bilbao and the Irish capital Dublin, the two other finalists, for the title of World Design Capital 2014. The winning city will be announced in Taipei on 26 October. A Cape Town delegation led...

Desmond Tutu celebrates 80th birthday in Cape Town

Activist and retired bishop Desmond Tutu celebrated his 80th birthday on 7 October in St George’s cathedral on Wale St in Cape Town, where he served as the city’s Anglican archbishop for ten years from 1986. The multilingual prayer service was...

Genée International Ballet competition in Cape Town for first time

The prestigious Genée International Ballet competition takes place for the first time in Cape Town from 6-9 Oct at Artscape. One of the most esteemed events in the world of classical dance it attracts dynamic young dancers who work with...

James Bond fever in Cape Town

Cape Town is hoping that the new James Bond movie is to be filmed in the city. The 23rd Bond film was supposed to have been shot on location in India but was abandoned when official sanctions took too long...

Shark attacks earlier than usual in Cape Town

A British swimmer, who refused to heed warnings about the presence of sharks, was attacked by a Great White Shark off Fish Heok at the end of September. He was saved after two local men, Hugh Till and Douglas Drysdale,...

Cape Town wins top tourism award

Cape Town won the title of Best Destination in Africa at the World Tourism Awards on 19 September, marking the seventh time the city was awarded the honour. With the exception of 2004 and 2007, when the award went to...

Cape Town’s Diwali Festival

The Cape Town Diwali festival takes place at Ratanga Junction in Century City, a suburb ten km northeast of the city centre, on 15 October. An annual event on the Hindu calendar, also known as the festival of lights, in...