Charlotte Bauer | Diary of a semigrant: Monkey business on the edge of the Cape

Author Charlotte Bauer made the big move from Johannesburg to the Southern Peninsula, where there are frequent run-ins with baboons. Here, she shares how residents living on the mountainside learn to put up with their primate neighbours from hell.

If you live in one of the towns strung like fairy lights along the Southern Peninsula coastline backing onto Table Mountain, you'll have an opinion about baboons.

Love 'em or hate 'em, you can't avoid them, and Cape Town is a city divided on the subject of what to do to "minimise conflict" between our species and theirs.