Mama Africa

Cape Town


At this eternally popular tourist venue the three resident bands each play a couple of gigs a week featuring marimba and other swinging African sounds. Diners can choose from a range of game dishes (mains R120). Bookings are essential on weekends, otherwise squeeze into a spot by the Snake Bar.


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1. Palm Tree Mosque

0.05 MILES

Dating from 1780, this is one of the oldest unaltered buildings along Long St.

2. Long Street

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A stroll along Long St is an essential element of a Cape Town visit. This busy commercial and nightlife thoroughfare, partly lined with Victorian-era…

3. Open House

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Kimberley-born artist Jacques Coetzer was the winner of a World Design Capital competition in 2014 to create a piece of public art for the city. Rising up…

4. Company’s Garden

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These shady green gardens, which started as the vegetable patch for the Dutch East India Company, are a lovely place to relax. They are planted with a…

5. Centre for the Book

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This grand domed Edwardian building first opened in 1913 as the headquarters of the now-defunct University of Good Hope. More recently it has become an…

6. National Library of South Africa

0.15 MILES

Facing the north end of the Public Garden, this neoclassical building is based on the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, UK, and holds a copy of nearly…

7. Public Garden

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Planted with a fine collection of botanical specimens, including frangipanis, African flame trees, aloes and roses, the Public Garden is the centrepiece…

8. Cecil Rhodes Statue

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This bronze statue of the politician and mining magnate Cecil Rhodes was erected in 1908 in the Company's Garden on a plinth carved with the phrase ‘Your…