What's changed on the site lately, newest first. Usually the crime map, the district reports or a data page.
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A new map of active fire detections across the Western Cape, drawn from NASA's FIRMS satellites and cross-checked against SABC news reports. Each hotspot is colour-coded by how recently it was seen, with plain-English context on what the signal means.
See the fire map →November 2026
The USD/ZAR rate as of 2 November 2026, refreshed daily from the Cape Town Data FX feed.
See FX rates →Station-by-station rainfall for the 24 hours to 08:00 on 2 November 2026, from 103 SAWS stations.
See daily rainfall →The City of Cape Town's reading of 2 November 2026 puts the six major dams at 73.0% of capacity.
See dam levels →October 2026
In the latest article of our Water and the dams series we show that the six major dams ended the rainy season at 74.0 percent in the week of 19 October 2026, compared with 89.7 percent a year earlier, the lowest mid-October level since 2017. We explain how one storm in May did almost all of the filling, how each dam compares with last year and what this means for the summer.
Read the article →September 2026
28 September 2026: reports from northern and western suburbs, a map of reported locations and official fault-reporting contacts. No confirmed full-restoration time.
Read the outage report →The brief, every two weeks
A free email every two weeks with safety updates, dam levels, rainfall and what's on.
Includes a free member account to save favourite guides and join the discussion.