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Pictured: Lilian Khumalo, Stella Magaba, Dorothy Engelbrecht

Disco Nights: A celebration of the great Diva

I just don

Roeland Street
Heavy showers last night and this morning (August 18) have left roads in Devils Peak full of rocks and assorted flotsam as the drains overflowed and sink holes were carved in the roads.

City council workers were out clearing the streets of rocks and De Waal drive traffic was moving very slowly.

Millionaire business Tokyo Sexwale is on a township tour, which he describes as a

Tempers and engines overheated as strike action brought Cape Town to a near standstill on Monday morning.

It was not clear on Monday night when the strike, over stalled pay talks, would end.

Frustrated taxi drivers were pulled over and given spot fines for paying even less heed than usual to the rules of the road, while the rest of us sat gridlocked, watching the minutes tick by, and the petrol and temperature gauges heading in opposite directions.

Left: The new skating rink
at the Cape Town
train station
What were they thinking
when they chose
these tiles?

On the right track

Come BacktoSA to the Blubird Whole Food Market in Jozi......
We don't have a mountain......
We don't have a south easterly........
We don't have a Biscuit Mill............
But we DO have a blubird............
This is worth coming home for.........
The definitive food Market in Johannesburg every Sunday in Athol
Oaklands Road, off Corlett Drive, Birnam. Join us for a taste
experience, we are known as the 'UNITED FLAVOURS OF NATIONS'

Fate Amenable to Change 12 - 29 August

Fate Amenable to Change: an exhibition of contemporary urban art work from outsider artist Shui-lyn White opens on Wednesday August 12th at 7pm at Salon 91 on Kloof Street, Gardens.

These works explore the perpetual motion that is at the centre of life: motion, not fate, is inevitable.

Just discovered Jan Van Riebeeck Primary

Table Mountain has made it into the final round of the New 7 Wonders of Nature contest beating the Atacama Desert in Chile, the Azure Window in Malta and the Rock of Aphrodite in Cyprus for a spot on the shortlist.