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11/09/2024

Calling all July, August, and September babies! Come and celebrate your birthday with us!

If you’ve celebrated your birthday during our annual maintenance closure (in July and August 2024), your free birthday ticket is waiting!

Come and redeem your birthday ticket at Table Mountain during the month of September. Remember to bring along your SA ID!

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to enjoy stunning views and create unforgettable memories. We look forward to celebrating with you!

Our new operational hours from 02 September to 13 December are: First car up 08h30 | Last car up 18h00 | Last car down 19h00

10/09/2024

Louzanne Coetzee, our T11 marathoner, gave it her all on the final day of the Paralympics. Despite winning bronze in the 1500m in Paris, she and her guide Claus Kempen finished just outside the medals in Sunday’s marathon.

Still, a remarkable effort from a true champion!

07/09/2024

Bored of the same old team builders you do every year?

Try something fun and adventurous, and create amazing memories with your work colleagues, friends and family groups!

We are rated in the top 25 outdoor activities in Cape Town!

All fitness levels and adventure levels are considered.

Email us on [email protected] for more information.

21/07/2024

Table Mountain National Park Joint Operations Results in Arrests.

Cape Town: A joint operation on Table Mountain National Park (TMNP) has resulted in the successful arrest of two suspects. A partnership approach that includes South African Police Service (SAPS), Hout Bay Community Crime Prevention (CCP), volunteers affiliated with TMNP, SANParks' Sea-Air-Mountain Unit and SANParks Rangers, was activated following an incident where two mountain bike cyclists were robbed in the area between Bokkemanskloof and Schoorsteenberg.

This swift collaborative response was initiated from the TMNP Operations Room after an alert by Hout Bay CCP.

The apprehension of the suspects was executed in the Constantiaberg area of Table Mountain National Park, above Hout Bay. Due to the quick reaction from SAPS and volunteers, two suspects matching a description provided by the victims were intercepted in the Hout Bay area. The suspects were found in possession of dangerous weapons and the stolen items.

The victims were unharmed, and a case has been opened at Hout Bay SAPS by the victims, who were assisted by SANParks rangers.

SANParks expresses its gratitude to all responders for their prompt action and collaborative efforts in apprehending the alleged offenders. This success underscores the valuable role of collaboration with security partners as well as the role of the intel interpretation team of the TMNP Operations Room, which played a critical role in developing this joint operation.

The management of TMNP would like to urge park users to exercise caution while enjoying outdoor activities and to do so in groups. To report any suspicious activities, please contact our emergency number at 086 110 6417.

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Issued by: South African National Parks (SANParks)

16/07/2024

Cable Car 🚠 is closed for maintenance, as well as Tafelberg Road.

Please take note of the mountain areas closed that are closed/inaccessible.

13/07/2024

The best built snowman 😂🫣😂🫣☃️☃️😂🫣😂 We did well 💪💪💪😂😂😂

11/07/2024

The snow is calling ❄️ And we are coming ⛄☃️⛄

10/07/2024

Certain schools will be closed tomorrow ☁️☁️

10/07/2024

Please consider this amazing initiative 🌹

R75 to buy a bed for someone less fortunate for 5 nights.

Click here: www.haven.org.za and tap the donate button

08/07/2024

Durbanville Hills Chocolate and Red Wine Tasting 😛

07/07/2024

Fun training day up Table Mountain with students from Wynberg Boys, Rondebosch Boys and SACS

11/06/2024

Cable Car is closed from 15 July to 1 September, and CoCT will be using this time for road maintenance. Most of the front of the mountain and Tafelberg Road will be closed during this period. Popular routes like India or Platties is essentially out as well.

05/05/2024

https://www.news.uct.ac.za/article/-2024-05-03-exciting-discovery-of-honey-badger-at-uct

A UCT student made a discovery of a honey badger just above campus.

30/04/2024

Do you also speak Sefrikan?

How do you explain the word "sommer" to someone who is not South African? It's not only a foreign word, it's a foreign concept. Perhaps the English never do anything "just sommer". There really is no equivalent. “Why are you laughing? Just sommer."

"Bakkie" is another one, very useful around this house for all sizes and shapes of containers and dishes. Also used for what they call "utes" in OZ or "pickup" in England. I find it an indispensable word.

We all know "voetstoots" of course. It's been officially adopted into South African English. There's no concise, one-word equivalent in English. "As is" just doesn't hack it. And it's such a humorous word, conjuring up images of pushing that brand new car home.

There's no good English word for "dwaal". It doesn't mean dream, or daze. It's close to absent-mindedness, but that's not quite it. Being in one so often myself, I'm not likely to stop using it.

I think "gogga" is the most delightful word for insect. Children all over the world should use it. “Insect" just doesn't stand a chance.

The word “moffie" is a far better word than all those embarrassed English attempts at defining a homosexual: gay, q***r or poofter. None of them are half as expressive. Somehow "moffie" doesn't sound as derog*tory either.

And then there's "g*tvol". I know it's very rude. But it's so very expressive. “Fed up" doesn't have half the impact. “Gatvol" is a word used more frequently than ever in the workplace these days, with increasing intensity.

While we're on the subject, another phrase which outstrips any English attempt is "Hy sal sy g*t sien". “He'll get his come-uppance" definitely lacks the relish in comparison.

"Donder" is another very useful word, used as an all-purpose swearword, which again has no good English translation. Used as a verb, it can express any degree of roughing up. As a noun, it is a pejorative, as they politely say in dictionaries, to mean whatever you want it to mean. And there's no good translation for "skiet-en-donder" either.

It says something about the English that they have no word for "jol". Probably the dictionary compilers regard it as slang, but it's widely used for "Going out on the town, kicking up your heels, enjoying yourself. Although curiously, the word "Yule" in Yuletide is related to "jol" and derived from Old English. Somewhere along the line, the English forgot how to "jol". How do you explain the passion of "lekker!"? “Wow last night was a "lekker jol".

I've yet to meet a South African over the age of two who doesn't use the word "muti". Translation is impossible - "witches potion" is about the nearest I can get. It needs a long cultural historical explanation. Between "muti" and the pedantic "medication", there's simply no contest.

And of course, my personal favourite "Kak en betaal", which says it all, doesn't it? A bland English translation would be "Cough and pay", or "Breathe and pay". But it just doesn't cut it, does it? Not by a long drop.

Other words that come to mind: "jou bliksem", "wag 'n bietjie", "nie so haastig nie", "just now", "sakkie-sakkie music", "ou swaer", "Ya, nee", and one of my personal favourites, "Poephol".

"Dudu". Telling your infant to "go to bed" is just not the same as, "Go dudu now, my baby!"

How about bliksem"? “I'm going to bliksem you!". Both wonderful Afrikaans expressions with nothing to compare in the English language, at least nothing that gives the same satisfaction.

"Mielie pap". There is no word like "pap". When they say porridge, they mean oats. There's no Maltabela, no Tasty Wheat, No Creamy Meal, in other words, there's no "pap"!

"Mislik" - unkind. “Why are you so mislik, you little skelm?" Which brings us to "skelm" - here you just get "baddies", but that doesn't have the same sneaky connotation of a proper skelm, does it?

And "snot-klap"... fabulous word! “Do you want a snot-klap?" How would you say that in English? "I'll slap you so hard the snot will fly!"? It's just not the same.

"Loskop" is another favourite. The English just don't understand when we say, "Sorry, I forgot - I'm such a loskop!"

And finally “moer". There simply isn't a word that denotes the feeling of dread behind the phrase "If you say that again I'll moer you!"

Eisch! A true Sefrikan in our load shedding world! Kom ons gaan braai! 🔥

30/04/2024

Please avoid the area 🙏

Best to stay off the mountain for the next few days ⛰️

29/04/2024

Table Mountain Fire Update: 09h30

There are currently a number of hot spot areas in the mountain cliffs and behind Kirstenbosch Gardens.

Aerial resources are on standby, but operations are currently not possible due to challenging wind conditions and cloud cover.

Throughout the day, ground crews from TMNP NCC Wildfires Environmental Services, Working on Fire, as well as the City of Cape Town Biodiversity unit, will be deployed, with staff presence scheduled for overnight monitoring.

Given the fire's location in inaccessible terrain, particularly in the cliffs, it poses ongoing risks, especially if wind patterns shift.

For safety reasons, we urge hikers to avoid the area until further notice.

Update on affected hiking areas in TMNP:
- Back Table, Skeleton Gorge, Newlands Forest access area (Fire base) and surrounding trails will remain closed to members of the public.

- Trails from Constantia Nek to Newlands Forest also remain closed.

- Camps Bay and Hout Bay trails are reopened.

- Cape of Good Hope
Hiking routes from Gifkommetjie to Circles Vlei and trails originating from Olifantsbos, as well as Sirkelvlei hiking trail and Link Road cycling route in the Cape Of Good Hope section, have been reopened.

During the weekend's fire operations, more than 20 guests were evacuated from two accommodation sites in TMNP, namely Overseers Cottage along the Back Table, as well as Olifantsbos in the Cape Of Good Hope, as a safety precaution.

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28/04/2024

Our thoughts are with our firefighters 🇿🇦❤️

27/04/2024

Happy Freedom Day 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦

Today we honour some of our amazing athletes 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦

25/04/2024

Autumn hikes are the best! Hiking above the clouds and looking down onto the City of Cape Town.

Time out to do what we love is always important for emotional and physical well being.

There is more to life than increasing its speed - Gandhi

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25/04/2024

Lion's Head is always a winner! It has incredible views and is a fun hiking adventure 😀

We had fun with our clients from the UK.

Thank you for the referral ⛰️

24/04/2024

Shout out to my newest followers! Excited to have you onboard! Janet Isabel Sharland, Waleed Singh, Claude Devdas

24/04/2024

Meetings in beautiful places 😄 Driving out to meetings can take up a huge chunk of your day, which is especially hard when life is so busy and every working minute counts 💗 Driving out to Melkboschstrand for a short meeting that took longer than the drive! But when you smell that beach air you appreciate that you could spend 5 minutes in your busy day for a quick stroll on the beach ⛱️ Definitely worth the drive!

The mark of a successful man is one that has spent an entire day on the bank of a river without feeling guilty about it.

08/04/2024

27/03/2024

Looking for something to do the weekend, then try out the TimeOut Market!

Well worth a visit 😁

27/03/2024

Future big mountain conqueror in training. Starting them young 🌱.

Mountains are a huge source of healing for me. I wish I had discovered mountains at a younger age to deal with my own anxiety and depression.

Kids need to get out and experience the blessings on our doorstep 🏔️ Bring your kids along and join us.

As they say "The difference between try and triumph is a little umph".

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27/03/2024

With the change of season comes the change in flowers blooming on the mountain.

They all have their time to bloom. So do you 🌺🌹

Our power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

Your season is coming 🎊😁

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26/03/2024

Today started misty and cold. It looked like the perfect day to stay at home. I'm glad I decided to venture out to the mountains this afternoon. Huge King Proteas are everywhere at the moment. As the saying goes "Instead of waiting for the moment, live the moment".

Today was a live the moment kinda day 😀

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25/03/2024

Congratulations to Rogail Joseph who won Gold for SA 🇿🇦 in the 400m Hurdles at the 2024 All Africa Games in Ghana.
This is the third Continental Gold Medal which Rogail has won.
The Hurdles Athlete from Worcester in the Western Cape has also won Gold for both the 100m & 400m at the 2019 African U20 Championship.

29/02/2024

Difference between American Facebook post and a South African Facebook Post.

AMERICAN POST:

Hello, my name is Sandra Stone, I am from New York, I love my husband so much and I can do anything to please him. But recently I am falling for his cousin, what should I do?

COMMENTS:

James Silva : I think you need to talk to your husband because marriage is all about communication.

Sarah Water : Oh my dear, sorry about that... I was once in your shoes before, I had to wake up and face the fact that I am married. Pray.

Michael Paper : Well just remove your mind from him and make your husband do the things you like in his cousin.

SOUTH AFRICAN POST:

My name is Amanda, I stay in Durban, married with a kid, I think I am falling for my husband's cousin! What should I do?

SOUTH AFRICAN COMMENTS:

Nosipho : Fool, weren't you taught about self-control?

Lwazi : You are a disgrace to womanhood..shame on you.

Melusi : Any news about R350 grant?

Anele: Why did you get married in the first place 'cause you still eyeing other men?

Adelle : Make R2000 in an hour, ask me how!

Mbali : I'm so sorry for asking on your post...anybody knows of a lift club from uMlazi to Umhlanga?

Irvin : If you want to fall for me too, call my number 0788312....

Khanyi : I don't blame you at all, better go find something to do with your life, clearly you are bored...

Richard : Here for the comments. Lol...

Marley : What should you do? Are you serious? You are married for Heaven sake!!

Senzo : You are so cute please inbox.

Mandla : You are a pr******te, you need deliverance! Fire.

Lasana: affordable electricity
1000 units R300
700 units R250
500; units R200

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