Cape Town was one of the locations where Half Girlfriend was filmed.
 The Mother City has also played host to the Africa leg of the annual World Rugby 7s event since 2015 to 2023; for nine seasons, from 2002 until 2010, the event was staged in George in the Western Cape, before moving to Port Elizabeth for the 2011 edition, and then to Cape Town in 2015
 Cape Town had the highest murder rate among large South African cities at 77 murders per 100,000 people in the period April 2018 to March 2019, with 3157 murders mostly occurring in poor townships created under the apartheid regime

