Cape Town Wine Lovers is for people who enjoy wine. We will have various wine events, mainly farm and estate visits, where we organise cellar tours and tasting events. Whether you are a wine fundi who talks about wine tasting like leather shoes, or simply someone who loves any wine, you should join.

The Cape Town Dining Club is a Meetup.com group for newcomers to Cape Town both short and long term. On a regular basis, we gather at new, interesting or up-and-coming restaurants, giving the club members an opportunity to sample new food, socialize with other recent arrivals in Cape Town whether from other parts of world or South Africa -- or to just chat over a glass of wine and delicious nibbles. This club also gives us an excuse to leave the office at a respectable hour and look forward to s …

The Cape Quaffers is a social wine tasting group that started in August 2007 and is still going strong with over 350 members on the mailing list. We are a very social group that meets once or twice a month mostly in the southern suburbs of Cape Town to meet new people, taste new wines and have some fun. We do this very well ! I have made many new friends, met lots of new people, and increased my social circle while exploring the winelands of the Cape ! Fabulous !!

This group was started for movie loving people who want to have company to the movies, or for people new to Cape Town (or living here for years) who just have not met any friends yet.

Calling all iOS Developers: If you enjoy developing applications for iOS, or you would like to learn how to develop for the platform, we would love to have you join us at our monthly Cape Town iOS meetups. We'll meet monthly to discuss iOS development related topics, ranging from beginner topics to more advanced topics, perhaps with beer and pizza! We're hoping that together we can learn and grow as great iOS developers, maybe even launch a couple of startups?

This group exists to bring together developers, administrators, and anyone with an interest in learning more about MongoDB in Cape Town and the surrounding areas. The best way to get involved is to come along to one of the regular meetups. We usually start with presentations of some interesting projects followed by general mingling, giving everyone the chance to meet each other and to discuss the presentations or whatever else is burning a hole in your mind!

This group was started for movie loving people who want to have company to the movies, or for people new to Cape Town (or living here for years) who just have not met any friends yet.

This group is all about connecting awesome people in their 20s/early 30s for social events and fun activities in and around Cape Town. Join up if you're either new to the city, or just looking to meet new people! Ideally, we'll mix it up with some or all of the following: happy hours, local events, hiking/biking/climbing/other outdoor, live music, food and wine appreciation, and whatever else can attract a critical mass. Please don't hesitate to suggest Meetup event ideas of your own by posting …

NEW YORK TRAVEL WRITERS SOCIETY (NYTWS) - Cape Town City Area Regional Meetup - is an extension of New York Travel Writers Society. We are a network of travel media and hospitality professionals. While headquartered In New York City, NYTWS is a global organization with over 1,200 members worldwide. Members include journalists, authors, editors, photographers, broadcasters, website content writers, creative writers, freelancers, travel bloggers and tourism professionals (tour operators, travel re …

The Apache Cassandra Project develops a highly scalable second-generation distributed database, bringing together Dynamo's fully distributed design and Bigtable's ColumnFamily-based data model. The Cape Town Apache Cassandra User Group is a highly awesome meetup group, bringing together cool people distributed across Cape Town to talk about our favorite NoSQL implementation, Apache Cassandra.

Mobile Monday is a global community of mobile industry visionaries, developers and influential’s fostering cooperation and cross-border business development through virtual and live networking events to share ideas, best practices and trends from global markets. Mobile Monday has the following objectives: To encourage innovation within the mobile sector. To facilitate networking between small and large companies, and between local and foreign. To help local companies effectively participate in i …

The aims of IxDA Cape Town is the creation of networking opportunities for local interaction design professionals and affiliates and linking them to the global IxDA community. IxDA Cape Town will provide a forum for sharing and learning through regular meetups. Other activities spurred by the meetups may include newsletters and publications, exhibitions and award schemes.

The idea is for writers of any age and any background to get together in a quiet, public space to: Take part in focused writing sessions with no distractions Give and receive constructive criticism of works-in-progress Review and discuss published fiction, non-fiction, poetry and plays Look to each other for education and inspiration There are several writers' groups in Cape Town at the moment, but they all follow the format of a once-monthly meeting on a particular evening. I thought that, li …

This group started out as a Lion's Head Hiking Club, but has overtime evolved into a more general hiking get-together.There are after all too many stunning walks in and around Cape Town to focus on just one. Lion's Head will however, remain the group's spinal cord because it is one of my favourite walks :) Would you like to tackle Lion's Head a couple times a week / month as part of your social/fitness/outdoors routine, but not keen to go alone? Want to meet some like-minded folk whilst climbing …

Are you interested in learning more about HTML5, CSS and JavaScript? Do you struggle with cross-browser development? Do you want to make your site run faster on the front-end? We're a group of Cape Town-based web developers and designers passionate about the technologies we work with on a daily basis, and we're keen to share what we've learnt. Join the google-groups mailing list.

Meetups for people who read/write/test/inspire/coach/aspire/love/develop software. Do you already meet at a usergroup in Cape Town? Let us know about it and we'll announce your meetup in this group.

We'd like to meet up with other Expats in the Cape Town area - not just from the UK but people who have moved here from elsewhere as the difficulties and joys are going to be the same! Let's find out what we think about settling here, what we miss from our respective homes, what support we can offer each other or maybe just have a chat with people who share this life-changing experience. This is an international group so if you've moved to South Africa, then this is a group for you!

we're a group of people with a passion for life. join us as in exploring Cape Towns social scene, outdoor activities, sports and themed house parties...attending interesting talks, networking opportunities, thought sharing sessions and just to meet people with a passion for moving the world forward....

This is a group for people interested in playing VTES in the Cape Town area. This will be used to help organise socials and league games, and announce tournament dates

Quantified Self is a collaboration of users and tool makers who share an interest in self knowledge through self-tracking. We exchange information about our personal projects, the tools we use, tips we've gleaned, lessons we've learned. We blog, meet face to face, and collaborate online. You are welcome to join us! From how to self-diagnose to how to self-experiment with data and statistics, Quantified Selfers might be those curiously engaging in a host of intelligence-gathering in the form of: …

The Cape Town Python Users' Group We hold regular meetings to discuss various aspects of python - interesting modules and projects, recent developments and so forth. There are regular Python Hack-nights, were people can get together and work on various python projects and sk more experienced developers for help and guidance with learning the language. We also organise regular sprints on various python projects, such as participating Python Bug days. See the website http://www.ctpug.org.za/ for m …

Whether you are a skilled marketer or are new to marketing the I Love Marketing - Cape Town meetup can help you grow your business. Leveraging simple effective proven strategies shared by Joe Polish and Dean Jackson we will meet to discuss, brainstorm and take action on their world class marketing advice. Getting Ready for One Hell of a Ride 1. You can find the I Love Marketing Podcast here 2. And the website - here http://ilovemarketing.com/ By listening to these Podcasts and sharing our ideas …

To all drum lovers and friends that would like to learn about drumming. Visitors in Cape Town. Everyone is welcome to join our drum circle. We also have extra drums for those that does not have one. We have original west African drummer who will teach you to drum from ZERO! Come and find the music in your heart. Everyone has music deep in them. Weather you think you have it or not, it is inside you. Come and find it. Listen to your heart.

Would like to get together with other "market fans" to explore some of the growing list of outdoor markets that are springing up all over the place. Whether they be food orientated, craft/handmade goods, organic, farmers or a combination of everything. Particularly I would like to focus on the markets just outside of Cape Town (up to one hour out) as I think a lot of us have been to most of the Peninsula markets .. obviously we will visit these too!

This is a Cape Town GNU/Linux Users Group supporting all things GNU/Linux and Free Open Source Software. Members interests are GNU/Linux, programming, hacking and software freedom. We are supporters of Free Software and encourage its use. We are particularly interested in helping people to install and use Linux on their computers. Our philosophy and ideas are closely aligned to the following organizations and people (I suggest you look them up): Free Software Foundation, Electronic Frontier Foun …

We invite anyone interested in Python web development, the Pyramid web-framework and/or the Plone content management system to join our meetups! We're also interested in any tangential topics, such as other python frameworks (Flask, Django, Werkzeug etc.), javascript (jQuery, backbone.js, spine.js etc.), HTML/CSS and entrepreneurship. We hold monthly meetups, either in Stellenbosch or Cape Town, every first Wednesday of the month. If someone has a talk or presentation prepared, we'll arrange a s …

What do you get when you place 4 strangers together at a dinner table? = Initial awkwardness leading to potentially lifelong connections. As we grow older, we lose touch with friends, move to new cities, start new jobs, lose touch with some friends, remain single, have a change in marital status etc... No matter how many Twitter followers, Facebook friends or LinkedIn connections we have - sometimes it is tough to make new friends. This group is for you if you'd like to expand your current socia …

We are a balanced membership who respect The Golden Rule : "Treat all people the same way you would like them to treat you and yours", fun and enjoyment. We are a select, informal but growing community with members from several countries meeting up for, activities in nature (guided walking), social events and sharing of ideas in terms of experience, sight, sound, taste and places to go on weekends etc.; By joining "Friends in the City" it will energise camaraderie and activities, the legacy of F …