De Waal Park

This guide to De Waal Park's bandstand in Cape Town traces its move here from the 1904 Cape Town Exhibition in Green Point, meant as a season's showpiece before it settled into decades as a stage for military bands and local performers. You'll hear about the 2021 bus crash on Upper Orange Street that damaged it and the boundary wall beside it, and the resident group that pushed for its repair. Come on a Sunday and you may still catch a free concert under that same iron roof.