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Roy Wallisch, the outrageous showman who lit up Sea Point, dies at 69 (opens the original)
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Roy Edmund Wallisch, the flamboyant owner of Sea Pointâs Balletique, has died at 69 after decades of turning his colourful shop into a local landmark. Outspoken, theatrical and often outrageous, he left behind a legacy of characters, controversy and community spirit as redevelopment forced the closure of the business he had run since 1979. The owner of Sea Pointâs Balletique, who dressed pavement mannequins in bikinis, feuded loudly with the surf shop across the road, lit Cape Townâs stage
The Cape Town shark spotter who keeps surfers and swimmers safe (opens the original)
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Most mornings, Dennis Chikodze can be found inside a wooden lookout hut high above False Bay, keeping a close eye on the beach below him. Dennis Chikodze rises before Cape Town wakes up. He has important work to do. Chikodze is a shark spotter. While many people are still fumbling for the kettle, he is already on his bicycle, pedalling out of Masiphumelele, a settlement tucked between Noordhoek and Kommetjie, where the roads are red dirt and the smell of wood smoke carries even in summer. In win
Cass Abrahams, pioneering voice of Cape Malay cuisine, dies at 82 (opens the original)
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Cass Abrahams spent four decades bringing Cape Malay cuisine into the spotlight, challenging the people and institutions that dismissed or erased it. Her legacy lives on in the recipes, books and generations of cooks she inspired. The Danes implied that her food was âpig foodâ and second class. Cass Abrahams proved them, and many others, wrong. She was a woman of colour in a male-dominated food industry, in a segregated South Africa, where people like her had little cachet and were expected
Farewell Estelle Ellis, who chased broken lifts, broken hospitals and broken promises (opens the original)
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The Daily Maverick journalist who spent years exposing failures in Eastern Cape hospitals, courts and municipalities, and who once got trapped in a hospital lift with a corpse rather than take an officialâs word for it, has died suddenly. âA desperate Eastern Cape mother allegedly used rat poison to kill herself and three of her four children on Sunday. The police said their preliminary investigation found that the family was living in extreme poverty and the mother had become despondent. Th
Gillian van Houten, newsreader who left the studio for the bush, dies at 72 (opens the original)
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Gillian van Houten was born on 21 April 1954 in Cape Town and died on 25 July 2026 at Noordhoek Manor, in the same city, aged 72, following some years living with frontotemporal dementia. She is survived by her life partner, John Varty, and their three children, Savanna, Sean and Tao. For two decades, the calm of Gillian van Houtenâs voice reached into living rooms across South Africa, carrying news of unrest, referendums and a country remaking itself. Then, in her forties, she walked out of t
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