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The City of Cape Town, Western Cape Government and Discovery Health have opened Cape Town’s first mass vaccination facility at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. Dubbed the Vaccination Centre of Hope, the facility is expected to administer over 750 000 vaccinations between July and December, playing a critical role in Cape Town and the […]

Cape Town is one of the best cities in the world for remote workers, according to a new study by global housing rental platform, Nestpick. The Mother City scored 16th – higher than locations such as New York, Athens and Barcelona – on the list of 75 cities. The index score was based on a […]

The City’s Mayoral Committee Member for Economic Opportunities and Asset Management, Alderman James Vos was recently joined by the newly-appointed Belgian Consul General Mathias Bogaert for a sector engagement at a South African engineering group that recently opened a new base in Belgium. Consul General Bogaert’s appointment follows his country’s decision to upgrade their Cape […]

Cruise Cape Town, a collaborative project that endeavours to grow the cruise economy in Cape Town and the Western Cape, has officially been launched. Having been in operation since September 2020, the initiative looks to capitalise on the growing cruise tourism trend. Despite the current lockdown and travel restrictions, the team is hopeful for the […]

The cities of Cape Town and Aachen, Germany, have launched a joint edition of the Mayor’s Portfolio of Urban Sustainability to mark the 20th anniversary of the Aachen–Cape Town LA21 Partnership. The publication seeks to inspire and support urban responses to sustainability challenges for the benefit of communities and the environment. Cape Town confronts a […]

Cape Town is a city of incredible natural beauty and has all the attributes that appeal to people looking for a great city in which to live, work, study, play and invest. The city offers visitors a variety of unforgettable experiences and is home to the Cape Town Big 6, a set of attractions which […]

Digital content creator is one of the fastest-growing jobs on LinkedIn’s 2021 ‘Jobs on The Rise’ list. Unsurprisingly, a growing number of them choose to base in Cape Town. Meet digital creatives Tebogo Pin-Pin, Naseeha Khan and Jonty Fish who all call Cape Town home. Tebogo Pin-Pin I am a South African Cape Town based travel […]

Cape Town is one of 50 Champion Cities selected as finalists in the 2021 Global Mayors Challenge, a global innovation competition that identifies and accelerates the most ambitious ideas developed by cities in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. These 50 urban innovations rose to the top of a competitive pool of more than 630 applications […]

Covid-19 and the global lockdown response completely changed the world in which we work and live. Tourism was one of sectors that was hardest hit by the pandemic, with numerous tourism-focused businesses being forced to shut their doors, and many thousands of jobs lost. As one of the world’s most popular tourist destinations, Cape Town […]

Statement by the City of Cape Town’s Mayoral Committee Member for Economic Opportunities and Asset Management, Alderman James Vos. The City of Cape Town is certainly hopeful about the tourism industry’s recovery and the GDP statistics released by Statistics South Africa are cause for cautious optimism. To assist this sector, the City’s Enterprise and Investment […]