Some 150 Parkwood residents added their voices to a picket last night, claiming the City of Cape Town has failed in its responsibility to the people. The picket was held outside a meeting which the Mayor of Cape Town, Patricia De Lille attended. Residents along with #GangsterismMustFall and The Voice[…]
As the winter months draw closer, the incapacity of homeless shelters has worsened the already desperate living conditions of the homeless within the City of Cape Town. In response to the dire needs of homeless individuals, the City of Cape Town is offering food, blankets and toiletries to shelters this[…]
Dozens of Khayelitsha residents marched to the Cape Town Civic Centre to a deliver a petition on Tuesday, demanding safe, clean and dignified sanitation services. The petition, led by the Social Justice Coalition (SJC), included the signatures of 5000 Khayelitsha residents ahead of Mayor Patricia de Lille’s 2016/17 budget speech[…]
Last week, Blikkiesdorp residents met with Mayor Patricia de Lille to discuss community concerns, after which a meeting between the Mayor and the residents was scheduled for two weeks’ time. While those who attended the meeting said that the meeting was a success, in a community meeting held on Sunday,[…]
While metal is considered a valuable natural resource, the increase of metal theft incidence costs municipalities millions to replace. The City of Cape Town is now clamping down on metal theft criminals and is asserting the strongest judicial mechanisms to ensure that suspects are not able to continue their activity.[…]
Activists in informal settlements have launched a petition calling on Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille to urgently tackle people’s living conditions in the City’s informal settlements. “We are ashamed of living in a city where over 20% of the population are deprived of dignity, and would like to add[…]
Yesterday, the Philippi Horticultural Area (PHA) Food and Farming Campaign released documentation that would allegedly reveal how the City of Cape Town wasted tax payer’s money and ignored studies for protection of the PHA and a management plan, which the City allegedly commissioned. In recent months campaigners have been calling[…]
The Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers’ Union (SACTWU) on Monday approached the Western Cape High Court and applied for an interdict against the City in an attempt to postpone any further changes to the mandate of the Good Hope Centre, which is currently being used as a film studio.[…]
An elderly Bo-Kaap resident fought the fierce Cape Town weather conditions in her dilapidated home in Bo-Kaap for 50 years. The struggle for 79 year old, Latiefa Fagodien is now over after the City of Cape Town offered to renovate her home and assist her in the process for complete[…]
Recent reports indicate that the City of Cape Town has been granted permission by Heritage Western Cape to manage and protect local heritage sites and structures. However, CEO of Heritage Western Cape Mxolisi Dlamuka explained that Heritage Western Cape has not as yet transferred the managerial powers of its grade[…]
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