The City’s Coastal Management Branch has commenced with repairs and construction to a section of the Simon’s Town Long Beach facility today, 11 November 2024. This project will continue until early December, if all goes according to plan. Residents and beachgoers can look forward to improved aesthet...

Environmental Health Practitioners service, on average, 85 000 block-baiting stations in public spaces and informal areas across the metropole annually. Rodents and other pests are prevalent during the warmer months, with potential health impacts if not managed properly.   In the previous financial ...

The City’s Community Arts & Culture Development Department hosted just over 200 persons in various stages of reintegration, for a fun wellness-focused event at the Belhar Indoor Sports Centre on Thursday, 31 October 2024.     Attendees are currently residing at the City’s Safe Spaces, Haven Night sh...

The City’s Energy Directorate’s ongoing light-emitting diode (LED) streetlight installation and maintenance project is making steady progress on public lights across the metro, including in Manenberg. The City’s Mayoral Committee Member for Energy, Alderman Xanthea Limberg, and officials visited the...

The City Energy Directorate’s ongoing work of installing and maintaining its light-emitting diodes (LED) on public lights in Khayelitsha is making significant progress. Khayelitsha has a network of 222 high-mast public lights and the City’s LED long-term project aims to phase out the old mercury vap...

The City of Cape Town’s Urban Mobility team successfully hosted the first of four planned community roadshow events at the Parow Civic Centre, yesterday, 10 October 2024.   ‘It was great to see the local residents who came out to meet the Urban Mobility Directorate teams. They had an opportunity to ...

The emergency exercise at a primary school in Melkbosstrand coincided with International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction (IDDRR), which is commemorated annually on 13 October.  The IDDRR theme this year is ‘Empowering the next generation for a resilient future’.   The focus is on enhancing the prepa...

The City of Cape Town published the draft Local Spatial Development Framework (LSDF) for the Blaauwberg Road Corridor in Table View on 9 September 2024 for public comment. Given the significant interest in the draft LSDF, the City has extended the commenting period by another month, until 11 Novembe...

On Monday, 23 September 2024, the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) published Eskom’s Multi-Year Price Determination (MYPD) 6 for the period between 2025/26 to 2027/28. The City has warned against Eskom’s plans to hike electricity tariffs by an outrageous almost 44% for municipalitie...

In celebration of International Coastal Clean-up Day on 21 September, the City's Junior City Council, in collaboration with the City’s anti-litter mascot Bingo, took to Muizenberg Beach to participate in a successful beach clean-up. The event, which forms part of the City's broader #SpringCleanCT in...

Date: 27 September 2024 Duration: 09:00 – 16:00 Area: Portion of Rocklands, Mitchells Plain, including the area off Spine Road along Weltevreden Road, Gladiator Road and surrounds, Sunderland Street and surrounds, Caravelle Road and surrounds, Kitty Hawk and Marauder and surrounds among others.   Pl...

The City supports 11 Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) representing various sectors, from technology to clothing and call centres, which all contribute to upskilling people, creating employment and growing Cape Town’s economy.   Over the last five years, these partnerships have collectively made econo...