Adventure At Your Fingertips

Cape Town Hotels: Stay Central at The Capital 15 & Mirage

Ask any Joburger planning a Cape Town escape where to stay and the advice usually comes with a catch. Camps Bay puts the Atlantic on your doorstep, but the city's restaurants and galleries sit a drive away. The V&A Waterfront is polished and convenient, yet it can feel like a view of boats you spend the trip trying to leave. A quiet suburb offers calm, but leaves you reliant on e-hailing to reach everything that made you book the flight in the first place.For years, choosing where to stay in Cape Town has meant choosing which side of the city to enjoy. The Capital Hotels, Apartments & Resorts believes guests shouldn't have to make that call. With The Capital 15 on Orange in the City Bowl and The Capital Mirage in De Waterkant, the group offers two central bases built for one purpose: keeping every side of the city within easy reach.Book 60 days in advance and save 25% off all room types at The Capital 15 on Orange and The Capital Mirage.Book NowWhy Location Matters More in Cape TownCape Town is a city of distinct pockets. The mountain, the city bowl, the bay and the harbour each have their own character, and that variety is the whole appeal. It is also the challenge. Book the wrong base and a long weekend quickly turns into a series of transfers.A central address changes the rhythm of a trip. Mornings can start with a walk instead of a car ride, lunch can be somewhere you stumbled upon, and the evening can end back in your room without a late-night logistics exercise. Both Capital properties are designed around that idea.Two Central Addresses, One IdeaThe Capital 15 on Orange: Gardens, Mountain Views and a Proper ResetThe Capital 15 on Orange sits inside Cape Town's historic Company's Garden precinct, with Table Mountain and Lion's Head forming a dramatic backdrop from the rooms. It is a setting that feels removed from the bustle, yet most of what visitors come for is close by.Kloof Street's restaurants, the cobbled lanes of the Bo-Kaap, the Iziko Planetarium and Company's Garden itself are all within an easy stroll. The V&A Waterfront is a mere three kilometres away, while Camps Bay and the Table Mountain cableway are only minutes further. In practical terms, that means the city's culture, its coastline and its most famous landmark can all be reached without a long day in transit.Guests don't need to leave the building to feel looked after, either. The Grotto Wellness Spa, an outdoor pool and a fitness centre make it easy to unwind after a day of exploring, and the Emerald Lounge Restaurant & Bar offers a relaxed place to end the evening. Secure parking and remote-work-friendly spaces round out the property, which suits business and leisure stays alike. For anyone combining meetings with a few extra days in the Mother City, that flexibility counts for a lot.The Capital Mirage: Space, Views and the Creative Heart of the CityA short drive away, The Capital Mirage anchors guests in De Waterkant, Cape Town's historic creative neighbourhood. Cobblestone streets, art galleries and designer boutiques set the tone, with the Bo-Kaap and the Cape Quarter both within walking distance. For trips to the V&A Waterfront, a prearranged shuttle takes care of the journey.Where Mirage really stands out is space. Its rooms and apartments range from 42m² studios to three-bedroom units, all with floor-to-ceiling mountain and cityscape views and full kitchens. That makes it a natural fit for longer stays, family holidays and groups travelling together, where having room to spread out (and the option to cook) makes a real difference.Then there is Utopia, the rooftop restaurant, which serves up 360-degree views of Table Mountain and the city. Add the Cattle Baron steakhouse, a fitness centre and a Snooker Lounge, and the property offers plenty to enjoy without ever stepping outside. When you do step out, De Waterkant's galleries, boutiques and restaurants are right there.Which One Suits You?Both properties share the same central philosophy, but each leans towards a slightly different kind of stay.Choose The Capital 15 on Orange If You WantA garden-precinct setting, spa facilities and a calmer base that is still a short hop from Kloof Street and the Bo-Kaap. It works especially well for guests who need to mix work and leisure.Choose The Capital Mirage If You WantMore room and a livelier neighbourhood. If you are travelling as a family or with friends, or simply prefer a kitchen and a view over the city from floor to ceiling, the apartments are hard to beat.Neither requires you to give anything up. The mountain and the city, the culture and the coast, all remain within reach whichever address you choose.Plan Ahead and SaveFor travellers who like to plan, there is a good reason to book early. Guests who book a stay at The Capital 15 on Orange or The Capital Mirage 60 days in advance can save 25% off all room types.Cape Town rewards visitors who stay close to the action. With two central addresses, The Capital Hotels, Apartments & Resorts makes it easy to do exactly that, without ever having to pick a side.Ready to plan your Cape Town stay? Book 60 days in advance and save 25% off all room types.Book Now at The Capital Hotels, Apartments & Resorts

Reverse Futures at Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation (JCAF)

Some exhibitions ask you to look. Others ask you to slow down, listen and reconsider what you thought you knew. Reverse Futures, now showing at the Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation (JCAF), belongs firmly in the second camp. Running from 26 June to 5 December 2026, it closes a three-year programme with a question that feels urgent in Johannesburg: whose future are we actually building?A Trilogy Reaches Its Final ChapterThe Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation is a non-collecting philanthropic institution that pairs academic inquiry with museum-quality exhibitions. It works to a three-year theme, and the current cycle, Worldmaking (2024 to 2026), has invited visitors to examine how we imagine, shape and inhabit the world around us.From Ecospheres to StructuresThe trilogy began in 2024 with Ecospheres, a reflection on the natural world. Structures followed in 2025, turning attention to the built environment. Reverse Futures completes the arc by looking ahead to the techno-future, and each chapter has been accompanied by talks and publications that deepen the conversation beyond the gallery walls.Yinka Shonibare, Refugee Astronaut X (2024), and in the background, Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power since 1500 (2023) by Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler, in the Reverse Futures exhibition. Photo Graham De Lacy. Courtesy JCAF.What Is Reverse Futurism?The exhibition title comes from Cave_bureau, the Nairobi-based architectural practice that coined the term "reverse futurism". Their premise is disarmingly simple: for the future to exist, we need to undo the mistakes of the past. Reverse futurism describes remedial acts that address history and the present at the same time, carving out pathways of healing amid colonial and ongoing neocolonial structures.It is a useful corrective. The future is so often framed through Western lenses, either as shiny utopia or bleak dystopia, as Hollywood science fiction has taught us. For many communities in the Global South, the future is not a distant fantasy. It is rooted in the present, shaped by inequality, environmental change and extraction, and carried by people who already hold the vision and urgency to transform it.Reverse Futures exhibition showing Cave_bureau’s installation Shimoni Slave Cave (2022–2023) with the model of the cave visible in the foreground; in the background Georgia Munnik, Concrete Jasmine (2026) and The Strangling Fruit (2026) and Paula Gaetano Adi, Guanaquerx (2024). Photo Graham De Lacy. Courtesy JCAF.Three Sections: Space, Time and PlaceCurated by JCAF Executive Director Clive Kellner, the exhibition unfolds across three interconnected themes. Together they bring nine featured artists and two special projects into conversation: Etel Adnan, Cave_bureau, Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler, Paula Gaetano Adi, Kamil Adam Hassim, Traci Kwaai, Ernest Mancoba, Georgia Munnik and Yinka Shonibare, alongside Rebecca Potterton and Wolff Architects.SpaceHere the cosmos is approached through Indigenous knowledge, displacement and perception, framed as a site of both survival and imagination. Works by Yinka Shonibare, Etel Adnan and Kamil Adam Hassim ask who gets to dream of the stars, and who gets left behind when we do. Look out for an African astronaut searching for a habitable world, a gentle but pointed challenge to the idea that injustice stays on Earth.TimeCave histories meet modernist painting in a dialogue between Ernest Mancoba and Cave_bureau. Shared marks and gestures reveal how past and present intertwine, and how the legacies of colonialism linger in landscape and memory. Traces of slavery in Kenyan caves lend this section a quiet, searching weight.PlaceTechnology and sensory experience become tools for connecting locations, memories and communities. Installations by Traci Kwaai, Georgia Munnik and Paula Gaetano Adi explore new ways of archiving personal and collective stories. Expect to dive underwater to hear the voices of the Kalk Bay community, and to encounter the contradictory smells of Johannesburg, a very local kind of poetry for anyone who has ever navigated this city by nose.Paula Gaetano Adi, Guanaquerx (2024), in the Reverse Futures exhibition. © Paula Gaetano Adi.Photo Graham De Lacy. Courtesy JCAF.Encounters You Will RememberWhat distinguishes Reverse Futures is its refusal to treat technology as a purely technical subject. A robot re-enacts a nineteenth-century liberation campaign in the Andes. An expansive visualisation by Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler maps the calculative logics of empire. These works are immersive and sometimes unexpected, yet they stay grounded in humane questions.Kellner puts it well, describing an exhibition that asks how we might imagine "a better world not built on power and extraction", one that sees South Africa's future as part of a continuum of community, environmental care and historical learning. He promises beauty and pathos in equal measure, and ideas that will excite adults and children alike. For artists, the exhibition offers rich material on how research, lived experience and community narrative can shape contemporary practice. For art lovers, it offers something rarer: room to think.Plan Your VisitJCAF is built around a personal encounter between visitor and artwork. The aim is to slow down the act of looking, so that viewing becomes reflective rather than consumerist. That ethos shapes the visitor experience, and it is why viewing is organised in a particular way. For more information about this exhibition, read our event listing. Booking and EntryEntrance is free to the public, but exhibition viewing is by appointment only, so reserve your slot before you go. Booking ahead means the galleries stay unhurried, which suits work that rewards patience. With the exhibition closing on 5 December 2026, there is plenty of time to plan, though weekends fill quickly during popular exhibitions, so do not leave it too late.Stay ConnectedTo explore the foundation's wider programme, including its research and publications, discover everything the Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation has to offer. For behind-the-scenes glimpses, artist moments and news of upcoming talks, follow the conversation on JCAF's Instagram.Visitors in the Reverse Futures exhibition experiencing Traci Kwaai’s VR installation Fisher Child (2025) at the left; in the background, Paula Gaetano Adi, Guanaquerx (2024).Photo Graham De Lacy. Courtesy JCAF.Why Reverse Futures Matters to JoburgJohannesburg has always been a city that looks forward while carrying a complicated past. It is a place of reinvention, extraction, migration and stubborn hope, which makes it exactly the right home for an exhibition that insists on holding all of these truths at once. Reverse Futures does not offer easy answers. It offers something more valuable: a framework for asking better questions, and a reminder that the future is something we make together, starting now.Whether you are an artist seeking fresh perspectives, a collector of ideas rather than objects, or simply curious about what tomorrow might look like from the Global South, this is an exhibition worth booking before it closes on 5 December.

Mental Health Awareness in Johannesburg: When Stress Spills ...

Johannesburg is a city that rarely slows down. Long commutes, congested roads, work pressure, financial strain and the everyday demands of city life can leave people carrying more stress than they realise.Sometimes, that pressure becomes most visible behind the wheel.Road Rage Is More Than Bad DrivingMost Joburg motorists have experienced it: someone cuts you off on the M1, a taxi suddenly changes lanes, traffic barely moves on the N1, or another driver hoots before the robot has even changed.Feeling irritated is normal. The concern starts when frustration turns into intimidation, reckless driving, threats or violence.Road rage should therefore also start a broader conversation about stress and emotional wellbeing.Following a fatal road-rage incident in Emmarentia in 2026, road-safety organisation Arrive Alive highlighted commentary from MasterDrive CEO Eugene Herbert that congestion, deteriorating infrastructure and accumulated daily stress can leave motorists emotionally overloaded before a relatively minor incident occurs. That doesn't excuse aggressive behaviour. It does, however, show why managing stress before it reaches breaking point matters.Warning Signs Joburg Drivers Shouldn't IgnoreIf you regularly find yourself shouting at other motorists, deliberately preventing vehicles from merging, following someone who angered you, driving aggressively to “teach them a lesson”, or remaining angry long after reaching your destination, it may be worth examining what else is happening in your life.The anger you feel in traffic may not actually start in traffic.Practical steps can be surprisingly simple: allow more travelling time, avoid engaging with aggressive motorists, don't drive while highly emotional, and recognise when you need professional support.Most importantly, don't get out of your vehicle to confront another driver. Creating distance can prevent a frustrating encounter from becoming something far more serious.Mental Health and Your Medical AidMental healthcare is also an important medical aid issue.According to Adriaan Schoeman from MedicalAid.com, consumers should understand that certain mental health conditions and emergencies may qualify for Prescribed Minimum Benefits (PMBs).“People sometimes assume mental healthcare is simply an optional benefit that disappears when their day-to-day benefits run out. That isn't always the case. Certain diagnosed mental health conditions and emergencies fall within the PMB framework, so members should establish exactly what they are entitled to before deciding that treatment is unaffordable.”The Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) confirms that PMBs are legally defined minimum healthcare benefits available to medical scheme members irrespective of the benefit option they have selected. They include emergency medical conditions and specified diagnoses.For example, the CMS identifies major affective disorders, including unipolar and bipolar depression, within PMB provisions. For qualifying depression, the prescribed treatment component includes up to three weeks of hospital-based treatment per year or up to 15 outpatient psychotherapy contacts per year.Schizophrenia is also a PMB condition and is included on the Chronic Disease List. However, not every experience of stress, anxiety, anger or road rage automatically qualifies for PMB funding. PMB entitlement depends on the diagnosis and applicable treatment requirements. Schemes may also use Designated Service Providers (DSPs), treatment protocols and formularies.A Healthier Johannesburg Starts With AwarenessMental health awareness isn't limited to people experiencing a crisis. It also means recognising mounting stress before it affects your relationships, work, health — or behaviour on Johannesburg's roads.The next time another driver makes a mistake, getting home safely matters more than proving who was right.And if anger, anxiety, depression or emotional pressure is becoming difficult to manage, speak to a healthcare professional and, if you belong to a medical scheme, ask your scheme whether your diagnosis qualifies for PMB or other mental health benefits.