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...

Walker Bay Orchid Society was established in 1994 in the Sandbaai and Hermanus area in the Western Cape by a group of Orchid enthusiasts. The goal of this Society is to share their knowledge about orchids, to curb the stereotype that “Orchids are difficult to grow”, and to share the beauty of orchid...

This weekend the City’s Mayoral Committee Member for Economic Growth, Alderman James Vos, spoke at the Tourism Teachers’ Conference on the importance of tourism and education in Cape Town's economic landscape.   Read more below: The conference, organised by the Western Cape Government Education Depa...

Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis has officially opened the City’s new 300-bed Safe Space shelter to help more homeless off the streets in central Cape Town. The mayor was joined by Councillor Patricia van der Ross, Mayoral Committee Member for Community Services and Health.   Read more below: The ...