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## Posts

- [Where the Mountain Meets the Season: Inside Cape Town’s Vertical December](https://capetown.today/where-the-mountain-meets-the-season-inside-cape-towns-vertical-december/)
- [Between Concrete and Current – Four Inland Hearts Meet the Indian Ocean](https://capetown.today/between-concrete-and-current-four-inland-hearts-meet-the-indian-ocean/)
- [Cape Town’s Hottest Tables: Where Summer Tastes Like Salt, Smoke and Midnight Vinyl](https://capetown.today/cape-towns-hottest-tables-where-summer-tastes-like-salt-smoke-and-midnight-vinyl/)
- [Cape Town’s Learner Licence Goes Fully Digital: 400,000 Annual Candidates Move to Touch-Screen Kiosks](https://capetown.today/cape-towns-learner-licence-goes-fully-digital-400000-annual-candidates-move-to-touch-screen-kiosks/)
- [Airbnb Under Fire: How Cape Town’s Housing Crunch Became a Tourism Blame-Game](https://capetown.today/airbnb-under-fire-how-cape-towns-housing-crunch-became-a-tourism-blame-game/)
- [Forty Metres of Air: The Morning Kiteboarding Rewrote Physics](https://capetown.today/forty-metres-of-air-the-morning-kiteboarding-rewrote-physics/)
- [Morea House: Where the Atlantic Meets Art, Granite and Ghost-Nets](https://capetown.today/morea-house-where-the-atlantic-meets-art-granite-and-ghost-nets/)
- [The Woman Who Taught Cape Town to Breathe Under Fire](https://capetown.today/the-woman-who-taught-cape-town-to-breathe-under-fire/)
- [Cape Town’s Shadow State: How Extortion Became the New Township Taxman](https://capetown.today/cape-towns-shadow-state-how-extortion-became-the-new-township-taxman/)
- [Martian Dust, Carbon ankles & a R4-million Promise: Inside the 2026 Cape Epic’s Mobility Rebellion](https://capetown.today/martian-dust-carbon-ankles-a-r4-million-promise-inside-the-2026-cape-epics-mobility-rebellion/)
- [A Teenager in a White Coat: How One Student Shattered South Africa’s Medical Age Record](https://capetown.today/a-teenager-in-a-white-coat-how-one-student-shattered-south-africas-medical-age-record/)
- [From Grape-Picker’s Son to Cellar Owner: The Klein Goederust Revolution](https://capetown.today/from-grape-pickers-son-to-cellar-owner-the-klein-goederust-revolution/)
- [The End of the Road? Broos Draws a Permanent Line Through Lorch’s Bafana Dream](https://capetown.today/the-end-of-the-road-broos-draws-a-permanent-line-through-lorchs-bafana-dream/)
- [Eight Minutes That Shook Four Continents](https://capetown.today/eight-minutes-that-shook-four-continents/)
- [Kloof Road: Anatomy of a Collapse – How One Storm Unravelled 120 Years of Mountain Engineering](https://capetown.today/kloof-road-anatomy-of-a-collapse-how-one-storm-unravelled-120-years-of-mountain-engineering/)
- [Friends-Only Feast: A BBC-Inspired, Dukkah-Dusted December Game-Plan](https://capetown.today/friends-only-feast-a-bbc-inspired-dukkah-dusted-december-game-plan/)
- [The Helderberg Trap: How Somerset Mall Turned a R1.8-billion Cape Town Drift into Its Own Gold Reef](https://capetown.today/the-helderberg-trap-how-somerset-mall-turned-a-r1-8-billion-cape-town-drift-into-its-own-gold-reef/)
- [Seventh Graders: The Misread Powerhouse of the School](https://capetown.today/seventh-graders-the-misread-powerhouse-of-the-school/)
- [Barren Shelves, Broken Pledges: South Africa’s Rape-Kit Famine Is Strangling Justice From the Exam Room to the Courtroom](https://capetown.today/barren-shelves-broken-pledges-south-africas-rape-kit-famine-is-strangling-justice-from-the-exam-room-to-the-courtroom/)
- [“I Didn’t Manage It”: Rachel Kolisi’s *Falling Forward* Re-writes the Script on Public Fallout, Female Fortitude and the Long Walk Back to Self](https://capetown.today/i-didnt-manage-it-rachel-kolisis-falling-forward-re-writes-the-script-on-public-fallout-female-fortitude-and-the-long-walk-back-to-self/)
- [Green Point Park Becomes Cape Town’s Living Classroom: A Day When Data, Drama and Otters Rewrote the Urban Playbook](https://capetown.today/green-point-park-becomes-cape-towns-living-classroom-a-day-when-data-drama-and-otters-rewrote-the-urban-playbook/)
- [Midnight Mirage: How Cape Town Quietly Turned a Sleepy Lagoon Into the World’s Most Audacious Urban Water ICU](https://capetown.today/midnight-mirage-how-cape-town-quietly-turned-a-sleepy-lagoon-into-the-worlds-most-audacious-urban-water-icu/)
- [Cape Town’s Four-Day Plumbing Transplant: How the City Will Pause Its Own Pulse to Build a Smarter, Leak-Proof Future](https://capetown.today/cape-towns-four-day-plumbing-transplant-how-the-city-will-pause-its-own-pulse-to-build-a-smarter-leak-proof-future/)
- [Sky-Bridge of the South: How Qantas’ New Direct Link Is Rewriting the Indian Ocean Travel Map](https://capetown.today/sky-bridge-of-the-south-how-qantas-new-direct-link-is-rewriting-the-indian-ocean-travel-map/)
- [Big Bay’s Ticking Map: How 60 Days Will Reshape Cape Town’s Atlantic Edge](https://capetown.today/big-bays-ticking-map-how-60-days-will-reshape-cape-towns-atlantic-edge/)
- [Inside the Engine Room: How Paul Mashatile Is Quietly Rewiring South Africa](https://capetown.today/inside-the-engine-room-how-paul-mashatile-is-quietly-rewiring-south-africa/)
- [Cape Town’s Market U-Turn: A Trader-First Revolution Hiding Inside a 34-Page Policy](https://capetown.today/cape-towns-market-u-turn-a-trader-first-revolution-hiding-inside-a-34-page-policy/)
- [Woodstock 2.0: How Cape Town Is Re-Writing Africa’s Gentrification Playbook on 11 Hectares of Public Dirt](https://capetown.today/woodstock-2-0-how-cape-town-is-re-writing-africas-gentrification-playbook-on-11-hectares-of-public-dirt/)
- [From Pulpit to Parliament, Playground to Pixel – South Africa’s Quiet Re-Coding of Manhood](https://capetown.today/from-pulpit-to-parliament-playground-to-pixel-south-africas-quiet-re-coding-of-manhood/)
- [Cape Town’s Silent Revolution: How Two Mega-Projects Will Tap Sewage and Sea to Keep the Taps On](https://capetown.today/cape-towns-silent-revolution-how-two-mega-projects-will-tap-sewage-and-sea-to-keep-the-taps-on/)
- [Cape Town’s Underground Metamorphosis: 49 Kilometres of Fresh Arteries for the Mother City](https://capetown.today/cape-towns-underground-metamorphosis-49-kilometres-of-fresh-arteries-for-the-mother-city/)
- [South Africa’s Climate Roundtable at Five: How a Living-Room Bargain Became the World’s Negotiation Manual](https://capetown.today/south-africas-climate-roundtable-at-five-how-a-living-room-bargain-became-the-worlds-negotiation-manual/)
- [I’d love to help, but I’ll need the original text first.](https://capetown.today/id-love-to-help-but-ill-need-the-original-text-first/)
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- [Sure, I’m ready to create a fully re-worked, 900-plus-word article that keeps every fact, drops the passive voice, and splits into four clearly headed sections.](https://capetown.today/sure-im-ready-to-create-a-fully-re-worked-900-plus-word-article-that-keeps-every-fact-drops-the-passive-voice-and-splits-into-four-clearly-headed-sections/)
- [The Hidden Architecture of Taste: How Your Brain Builds Flavor From Molecules, Memories, and Microbes](https://capetown.today/the-hidden-architecture-of-taste-how-your-brain-builds-flavor-from-molecules-memories-and-microbes/)
- [I’m ready to re-work the text exactly as you requested - re-phrased, properly sectioned, fact-rich, and comfortably above 900 words - but I’ll need the original passage (or at least the topic and key points) to begin.](https://capetown.today/im-ready-to-re-work-the-text-exactly-as-you-requested-re-phrased-properly-sectioned-fact-rich-and-comfortably-above-900-words-but-ill-need-the-original-passage-or-at-least-th/)
- [Midnight Algorithms: How One Metro Turned Integrity Into Infrastructure](https://capetown.today/midnight-algorithms-how-one-metro-turned-integrity-into-infrastructure/)
- [Western Cape 2025/26 Summer Readiness Initiative](https://capetown.today/western-cape-2025-26-summer-readiness-initiative/)
- [A Living Ring of Memory: Night Outside Cape Town’s Holocaust Centre](https://capetown.today/a-living-ring-of-memory-night-outside-cape-towns-holocaust-centre/)
- [Eyes on the Asphalt: How 334 Cape Traffic Cops Learned to Spot Hidden Chains](https://capetown.today/eyes-on-the-asphalt-how-334-cape-traffic-cops-learned-to-spot-hidden-chains/)
- [From Red Earth to Battery Row: The Magog Lithium Stand-Off Nobody Saw on the Map](https://capetown.today/from-red-earth-to-battery-row-the-magog-lithium-stand-off-nobody-saw-on-the-map/)
- [Cape Town’s Rent Wars: Why a Simple Cap Can’t Fix a 350-Year-Old City](https://capetown.today/cape-towns-rent-wars-why-a-simple-cap-cant-fix-a-350-year-old-city/)
- [Cape Town’s Stitch-Back Revolution: Inside the Micro-Factory Boot Camp That’s Quietly Re-Wiring the CTFL Belt](https://capetown.today/cape-towns-stitch-back-revolution-inside-the-micro-factory-boot-camp-thats-quietly-re-wiring-the-ctfl-belt/)
- [Cape Town’s Friday Night Fever: How the Blitzboks Flipped the Script](https://capetown.today/cape-towns-friday-night-fever-how-the-blitzboks-flipped-the-script/)
- [Western Cape’s Vaccine Defenders Fight to Close a Five-Year Immunity Gap](https://capetown.today/western-capes-vaccine-defenders-fight-to-close-a-five-year-immunity-gap/)
- [From Cardboard to Contracts: Rewriting Cape Town’s Homelessness Playbook with Trauma-Smart, Step-Up Housing](https://capetown.today/from-cardboard-to-contracts-rewriting-cape-towns-homelessness-playbook-with-trauma-smart-step-up-housing/)
- [The Disappearing Shield: How South Africa’s HIV Safety Net Is Unraveling](https://capetown.today/the-disappearing-shield-how-south-africas-hiv-safety-net-is-unraveling/)
- [Spine Road Reborn: Cape Town’s 12-Km Corridor Becomes a Living Laboratory for Dense, Green and Inclusive Growth](https://capetown.today/spine-road-reborn-cape-towns-12-km-corridor-becomes-a-living-laboratory-for-dense-green-and-inclusive-growth/)
- [Township Labs: The Teens Who Reboot South Africa’s Green Economy](https://capetown.today/township-labs-the-teens-who-reboot-south-africas-green-economy/)
- [South Africa’s Quiet Rail Revolution: 46 Second-Hand Locos Rewriting the Rules of African Freight](https://capetown.today/south-africas-quiet-rail-revolution-46-second-hand-locos-rewriting-the-rules-of-african-freight/)
- [A Story Still Spinning: How Paul Adams’ Unlikely Action Is Rewriting Township Cricket](https://capetown.today/a-story-still-spinning-how-paul-adams-unlikely-action-is-rewriting-township-cricket/)
- [Rassie to 2031: The Seven-Year Blueprint That Redraws South African Rugby](https://capetown.today/rassie-to-2031-the-seven-year-blueprint-that-redraws-south-african-rugby/)
- [When Healing Hands Meet Hooded Shadows: The Siege of Siyahlala](https://capetown.today/when-healing-hands-meet-hooded-shadows-the-siege-of-siyahlala/)
- [Chess on Turf: Inside Cape Town’s 960 Revolution](https://capetown.today/chess-on-turf-inside-cape-towns-960-revolution/)
- [From Clinic to Cell: How a Doctor Turned a Celebrity Addiction Into a Death Sentence](https://capetown.today/from-clinic-to-cell-how-a-doctor-turned-a-celebrity-addiction-into-a-death-sentence/)
- [Cape Town’s Night of Noise, Nitro and Neon: Inside the Heineken World Tour](https://capetown.today/cape-towns-night-of-noise-nitro-and-neon-inside-the-heineken-world-tour/)
- [Thunder at DHL: The 14-Minute Miracle That Rocked Cape Town Sevens](https://capetown.today/thunder-at-dhl-the-14-minute-miracle-that-rocked-cape-town-sevens/)
- [A Killing in Brakpan: Anatomy of a Murder That Has South Africa Holding Its Breath](https://capetown.today/a-killing-in-brakpan-anatomy-of-a-murder-that-has-south-africa-holding-its-breath/)
- [Built for the Blink: How Nature Drafted the Ultimate Speed Blueprint](https://capetown.today/built-for-the-blink-how-nature-drafted-the-ultimate-speed-blueprint/)
- [December’s Open-Air Symphony: Four Nights of Galileo Magic Under the Mountain](https://capetown.today/decembers-open-air-symphony-four-nights-of-galileo-magic-under-the-mountain/)
- [**Red Night in Site C: Who Killed Kwakhanya and Why It Still Hurts**](https://capetown.today/red-night-in-site-c-who-killed-kwakhanya-and-why-it-still-hurts/)
- [Cape Town Craft Adventurer’s Handbook](https://capetown.today/cape-town-craft-adventurers-handbook/)
- [Where Currents Collide: Africa’s First Ocean Photography Cathedral](https://capetown.today/where-currents-collide-africas-first-ocean-photography-cathedral/)
- [From Green Leather to Red Zones: MPs Ordered to Sleep Where Kids Count Shell Casings](https://capetown.today/from-green-leather-to-red-zones-mps-ordered-to-sleep-where-kids-count-shell-casings/)
- [Cape Flames, Cape Hearts: A Day Inside the Newlands Fire Fest](https://capetown.today/cape-flames-cape-hearts-a-day-inside-the-newlands-fire-fest/)
- [Cape Town’s Five-Star Trap: The Heist That Went Viral Before It Happened](https://capetown.today/cape-towns-five-star-trap-the-heist-that-went-viral-before-it-happened/)
- [A 44-Page Mirror: How the Western Cape Locked the School Door on Its Own Children](https://capetown.today/a-44-page-mirror-how-the-western-cape-locked-the-school-door-on-its-own-children/)
- [From Megawatts to Meme-Money: How Bitcoin’s Energy Receipt Became a Borderless Paycheck](https://capetown.today/from-megawatts-to-meme-money-how-bitcoins-energy-receipt-became-a-borderless-paycheck/)
- [Know Your Shield: How Every South African Can Force the Police to Act](https://capetown.today/know-your-shield-how-every-south-african-can-force-the-police-to-act/)
- [The Hidden Cost of Convenience: How Everyday Choices Quietly Drain Your Wallet](https://capetown.today/the-hidden-cost-of-convenience-how-everyday-choices-quietly-drain-your-wallet/)
- [Cape Town’s Hidden Nightmare: How a Tourist Hotspot Became a Hunting Ground](https://capetown.today/cape-towns-hidden-nightmare-how-a-tourist-hotspot-became-a-hunting-ground/)
- [South Africa’s Coast: The 3,000 km Wealth Rush That Won’t Slow Down](https://capetown.today/south-africas-coast-the-3000-km-wealth-rush-that-wont-slow-down/)
- [From Tar to Touchscreens: A Cape Flats Memory Re-wired](https://capetown.today/from-tar-to-touchscreens-a-cape-flats-memory-re-wired/)
- [The 30-Metre March That Took Half an Hour](https://capetown.today/the-30-metre-march-that-took-half-an-hour/)
- [When Africa’s Liberation Giant Bounces Cheques: Inside Luthuli House’s Empty Vault](https://capetown.today/when-africas-liberation-giant-bounces-cheques-inside-luthuli-houses-empty-vault/)
- [Cape Town’s Sky-High Movie Festival: 25 Nights of Alfresco Magic](https://capetown.today/cape-towns-sky-high-movie-festival-25-nights-of-alfresco-magic/)
- [African Penguins on the Edge: Sardine Crash Triggers Lethal Hunger in Moult Season](https://capetown.today/african-penguins-on-the-edge-sardine-crash-triggers-lethal-hunger-in-moult-season/)
- [A Lighthouse in Lavender Hill: Cape Town’s Bold Answer to Male & LGBT+ Gender Violence](https://capetown.today/a-lighthouse-in-lavender-hill-cape-towns-bold-answer-to-male-lgbt-gender-violence/)
- [From Hospital to Horizon: Four Turtles Reclaim the Indian Ocean](https://capetown.today/from-hospital-to-horizon-four-turtles-reclaim-the-indian-ocean/)
- [Midnight Inferno on Jessica Street: Anatomy of a Cape Town Torching](https://capetown.today/midnight-inferno-on-jessica-street-anatomy-of-a-cape-town-torching/)
- [Cape Town’s Art-Deco Hospital Will Become a Living Lab for Housing Justice - If 837 Squatters, City Accountants and Big Banks Can Agree](https://capetown.today/cape-towns-art-deco-hospital-will-become-a-living-lab-for-housing-justice-if-837-squatters-city-accountants-and-big-banks-can-agree/)
- [December’s Neon Heartbeat: Inside the Grassy Park Festive Market](https://capetown.today/decembers-neon-heartbeat-inside-the-grassy-park-festive-market/)
- [A Morning in the Mother City’s Liquid Heart: Six Hours Inside Cape Town’s Two Oceans Aquarium](https://capetown.today/a-morning-in-the-mother-citys-liquid-heart-six-hours-inside-cape-towns-two-oceans-aquarium/)
- [Rocklands Night of Horror: Child, Two Young Adults Cut Down in 90-Second Rampage](https://capetown.today/rocklands-night-of-horror-child-two-young-adults-cut-down-in-90-second-rampage/)
- [A Sun-Kissed Symphony: Satori’s One-Night-Only Masterclass on Cape Town’s Atlantic Edge](https://capetown.today/a-sun-kissed-symphony-satoris-one-night-only-masterclass-on-cape-towns-atlantic-edge/)
- [Christmas Afloat: How MSC Opera Turns the Ocean into Your Personal Winter Wonderland](https://capetown.today/christmas-afloat-how-msc-opera-turns-the-ocean-into-your-personal-winter-wonderland/)
- [Springboks Face Gauntlet of Giants and Giant-Killers in Bid for Rugby Immortality](https://capetown.today/springboks-face-gauntlet-of-giants-and-giant-killers-in-bid-for-rugby-immortality/)
- [Why Africa Still Has Zero Michelin Stars: The Untold Business Behind the Red Book](https://capetown.today/why-africa-still-has-zero-michelin-stars-the-untold-business-behind-the-red-book/)
- [Birthday Trip Turns Fatal: Grandmother Slain at Cape Town Traffic Light](https://capetown.today/birthday-trip-turns-fatal-grandmother-slain-at-cape-town-traffic-light/)
- [Strand Beach Summer Shutdown: Your Complete Holiday Guide](https://capetown.today/strand-beach-summer-shutdown-your-complete-holiday-guide/)
- [A Saturday That Shattered Innocence in Factreton](https://capetown.today/a-saturday-that-shattered-innocence-in-factreton/)
- [Betrayal of Trust: SRC Leader Allegedly Loots R14,000 From Freshers’ NSFAS Wallets](https://capetown.today/betrayal-of-trust-src-leader-allegedly-loots-r14000-from-freshers-nsfas-wallets/)
- [**“Green-Light Ambush”: One Family’s Morning Turns into a Highway Nightmare in Cape Town**](https://capetown.today/green-light-ambush-one-familys-morning-turns-into-a-highway-nightmare-in-cape-town/)
- [Bursting at the Seams: Inside South Africa’s 200 % Prisons, the 27 000 Foreign Inmates, and the Slow-Motion Race to Empty Cells Before They Implode](https://capetown.today/bursting-at-the-seams-inside-south-africas-200-prisons-the-27-000-foreign-inmates-and-the-slow-motion-race-to-empty-cells-before-they-implode/)
- [Rage 2025 Take-over: How Hisense and RGB Gaming Will Turn Fourways Mall into Africa’s Biggest Living Benchmark Lab](https://capetown.today/rage-2025-take-over-how-hisense-and-rgb-gaming-will-turn-fourways-mall-into-africas-biggest-living-benchmark-lab/)
- [Cape Town’s Mall Crown Gets a Recline-Button Upgrade](https://capetown.today/cape-towns-mall-crown-gets-a-recline-button-upgrade/)
- [Ster-Kinekor’s Quiet Revolution: Rewriting the Script for What a Cinema Can Be](https://capetown.today/ster-kinekors-quiet-revolution-rewriting-the-script-for-what-a-cinema-can-be/)
- [From Dirt Runway to Smart-Airport City: Inside Cape Winelands Airport’s R8-Billion Gamble](https://capetown.today/from-dirt-runway-to-smart-airport-city-inside-cape-winelands-airports-r8-billion-gamble/)
- [A Vegetable Wall Rises: Botswana’s December Shock Tests 110 Years of SACU Unity](https://capetown.today/a-vegetable-wall-rises-botswanas-december-shock-tests-110-years-of-sacu-unity/)
- [Springboks in the Grinder: Why 2027’s “Soft” Pool Could Be Their Hardest Yet](https://capetown.today/springboks-in-the-grinder-why-2027s-soft-pool-could-be-their-hardest-yet/)

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