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Digital agency required: Cape Town Partnership is overhauling its website and online strategy
What would the Cape Town Partnership’s website and online presence look like if it truly reflected the Cape Town that so many people are working towards – an inclusive, navigable, liveable, densified and diversified space? Continued…
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The story of laundry over three centuries of Cape Town life
Laundry – whether you do it yourself or someone helps you – is as much a part of our daily existence today as it was three hundred years ago. What was and is some of the culture surrounding the cleaning and pressing of clothes in Cape Town?
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Mother City manners: Urban resolutions for the new year
Manners do matter. In a world in which more and more people are moving to the city, it is increasingly important to be a considerate city dweller. So this year, when you’re thinking about your new year’s resolutions, why not factor in some urban etiquette too. Here are just 10 things you can do – as a commuter, community member and consumer – to make Cape Town a more liveable city. Go on, make someone’s day. Continued…
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Traces of the future in the present
Cape Town’s future is made every day out of the individual actions of ordinary Capetonians. As we wind up 2012, we took a closer look at events and occurrences during the year that point to what we can become as a city – together. Continued…
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Trafalgar: the park of possibilities
Last night saw Trafalgar Park in Woodstock transformed from just another urban park to an unexpected event space. The Cape Town Partnership’s annual stakeholders’ function, hosted along with the City of Cape Town and the Cape Town Heritage Trust, celebrated the many partnerships that make our work possible – as well as an exciting opportunity to be a part of plans to rejuvenate Trafalgar Park itself. Continued…
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Stop, collaborate and listen: A City Views cover story
Have you been wondering what the eye-catching yellow and black symbols, featured on the November cover of City Views, stand for? Wonder no more. These symbols, and the sign to which they belong, were spotted on the Portside building site in Bree Street, and refer to building contractor Murray & Robert’s “stop and think” safety campaign. Continued…
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Storytelling for social cohesion: A message from Professor Njabulo Ndebele
The power of stories lies in their ability to bridge divides and build community, Professor Njabulo Ndebele – chairperson of the Cape Town Partnership board – wrote in his foreword to the 2012 Cape Town Partnership annual report.
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AGM 2012: Celebrating the power of collaboration to transform a city
Over 250 people gathered on 30 October to celebrate the role that partnerships have played in Cape Town’s successes over the last 12 months. The Cape Town Partnership AGM 2012, unlike most AGM events, did not just celebrate the achievements of the organisation over the last year but also looked to the future, asking how we can work together more effectively to realise the vision of Cape Town as an inclusive and accessible African city. Continued…
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Celebrating the power of collaboration
One of the challenges we face at the Cape Town Partnership is how to explain what we do and account for the year that’s gone by when so much of our work is invisible: We don’t build bridges or physically upgrade the city of Cape Town ourselves. We aren’t structured to make a profit. The work we do is primarily to nurture relationships between people – who then go out and do the work of transforming the city. We build bridges between people and institutions, to help the city work better. Our assets are the people we work with and our relationships with them. Continued…
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