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The City of Cape Town recognises the need for urgent climate action and has long been a leader in Africa for its climate mitigation and adaptation efforts. The City’s newly launched climate change response and resilience campaign, Let’s ACT. For a Stronger Cape Town, is in line with these efforts. Residents, communities, businesses and organisations […]

The City of Cape Town in collaboration with Cape Town Tourism has rewarded the city’s healthcare workers as part of the City’s Responsible Tourism Frontline Project. Every crisis has its heroes, and at the function held at the Kasselsvlei Community Health Centre this week, there was an opportunity to thank Cape Town’s brave healthcare workers […]

Green Point Park is an outstanding urban oasis with a diverse range of delights for all to enjoy. And this triumphant World Cup legacy just keeps growing. For the 2010 FIFA World Cup, the City of Cape Town redeveloped Green Point common. A central component of this World Cup legacy project was Green Point Park. […]

Operations keep the lights on, strategy provides the light at the end of the tunnel, but project management is the engine that moves the organisation forward. So says international project management specialist, Joy Gumz. The City of Cape Town’s project management capabilities have not only moved the administration and Cape Town forward, but have catapulted […]

Give the City of Cape Town a challenge, and it’ll excel at overcoming it. When faced with an unprecedented drought a couple of years ago, the City crafted a highly innovative and successful homegrown plan. So, when the pandemic hit early last year, the City knew not to wait, but to innovate. And they clearly […]

In precolonial times, locals grazed their cattle and livestock here. And when the Dutch colonised the Cape in 1652, this practice continued, only this time, with the Dutch East India Company’s cattle. When the British later arrived, they used the land for various war purposes, including troop accommodation and a prisoner-of-war camp during the South […]

The City of Cape Town’s Organisational Effectiveness and Innovation department has launched a Collaboration Platform, an online portal which will enable the City to interact with the public and source innovative ideas from a wide range of stakeholders. Cape Town is the first metro to launch an online idea management system, where residents can share […]

The Carter Center has selected 13 cities from around the world, including Cape Town, to participate in its first global Inform Women, Transform Lives campaign. Each city had to put forward a plan that was appropriate for the respective city in terms of its own dynamics and socio-economic circumstances to advance access to information for […]

The City’s Mayoral Committee Member for Economic Opportunities and Asset Management, Alderman James Vos, this month facilitated a virtual discussion between representatives of Hangzhou and the Zhejiang Province to reiterate Cape Town’s message that it is open for business. The meeting was attended by Mr. Du Shigen, the Deputy Director of Hangzhou Foreign Affairs Office; […]

The City of Cape Town joined the Ukranian Embassy in a tree planting event in the Bo–Kaap on Sunday, 11 April 2021. The event formed part of a global environmental project entitled Greening the Planet, which aims to plant one million trees in one day in 100 countries, to raise awareness about concerns related to […]