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The City of Cape Town has again made the Carbon Disclosure Project’s (CDP) Cities A-List of best performing global cities. Last year, Cape Town was the only city in Africa to make the cut. This year Cape Town is one of only two cities in Africa to be graded with an A for climate effort. […]

The City of Cape Town has welcomed the decision by Virgin Atlantic to relaunch daily flights between London Heathrow and Cape Town from October 2020. In a statement this week, the airline announced that the seasonal service would start on October 25 and use a 264-seat Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft. Said Liezl Gericke, head of […]

The City of Cape Town and local NGO Baz-Art have partnered for the annual International Public Arts Festival (IPAF). The 4th edition of the festival kicked off this week and runs until Sunday, 16 February 2020. This year’s festival will see the walls of 21 buildings in Salt River transformed into inspiring giant artworks increasing […]

Cape Town Mayor Dan Plato and the Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry this week hosted a networking engagement with the Cape Town Consular Corps ahead of the President’s State of the Nation Address. In his speech, Plato emphasised the importance of building sustainable relationships between the City of Cape Town and representatives of the […]

A record crowd (51 954) welcomed two of the world’s greatest tennis players to Cape Town for the continent’s first ‘Match in Africa’ on Friday, 7 February 2020. Held at the world-class Cape Town Stadium, the match saw 20-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer play his greatest rival, 19-time Grand Slam champion, Rafael Nadal. The […]

Cape Town based designer Emma Strydom, 31, has won the Grand Prize for the 2019 Shenzhen Design Award for Young Talents competition (SDAY 2019). The competition is open to young designers under 35 years old, who are part of the 180  cities in the UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN), within which Cape Town is the […]

Cape Town is a major, modern cosmopolitan South African city. As such, we would advise travellers to exercise the same level of vigilance they would exercise when visiting any major city in the world. This includes ensuring you follow basic safety tips such as keeping emergency numbers on hand, avoiding carrying large sums of cash […]

The English Plus Academy in Cape Town is not your run-of-the-mill language school. It has a distinct character. Situated in Cape Town’s vibrant city centre, English Plus is one of the leading English language schools in South Africa catering for a diverse range of student requirements, including Corporate Courses – encompassing business practice, corporate presentations […]

Cape Town Mayor Dan Plato and the City’s Mayoral Committee Member for Economic Opportunities, Alderman James Vos, recently embarked on an official visit to Dubai. The reason for the visit was to sign a City Agreement with Dubai Municipality aimed at promoting travel and trade benefits for Cape Town. The delegation also used the opportunity […]

Cape Town has for the seventh consecutive year been voted the best city in the world by readers of The Telegraph in the UK. “We can reveal that the greatest city in the world is a coastal gem, lying in the shadow of a cloud-hugged mountain. Here wine flows, penguins waddle and – not too […]