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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?
Posted in About, Events, Experience Town, Featured, News, Retailers, Safety & Security, Spaces, Stories, Success Stories, Urban management.
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Summer celebrations: What to do in Cape Town this festive season
Wondering what to do about town during the summer of 2012? Schedule these events in your calendar. Continued…
Posted in Developments, Featured, Programmes, Retailers, Safety & Security, Stories, Success Stories, Urban management.
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MyCiTi hours extended for the festive season
MyCiTi buses will run one hour later on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays during the festive season, starting on 1 December 2012. There will be a special after-midnight service on 31 December to accommodate new year’s eve celebrations. 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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Cape Town’s e-permit system helps informal traders
An online permit system has made it easier for Cape Town’s informal traders to find and apply for trading space in the city. Continued…
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Taking the train
On a rain-splattered Thursday, City Views’ writer Alma Viviers ventured into the Southern Suburbs to take the morning train from Plumstead to the Central City with regular commuter Anton Pietersen. Continued…
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Towards a 24-hour city for Cape Town
Recently, the Cape Town Partnership co-hosted a discussion – entitled Reviving Our Inner Cities – about the pressing need for a more diverse housing solution in Cape Town, particularly near and in the Central City. Continued…
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My Cape Town: Ed Suter
Photographer Ed Suter’s new book – Sharp Sharp, South Africa Street Style – celebrates the diversity of downtown SA, and the art, fashion and attitude that makes our streets the dynamic places they are. Continued…
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Living in Cape Town’s CBD: Zanele Kulamo and Zodwa Kumalo-Valentine
Zanele Kumalo, features editor at Marie Claire magazine, and her sister, freelance writer and new mom Zodwa Kumalo-Valentine, have lived in cities around SA, but they recently chose to relocate to Cape Town. Continued…
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Cape Town Book Fair is back in 2012
Cape Town Book Fair is back and this year it coincides with one of the biggest events on the global publishing calendar: the 29th Congress of the International Publishers’ Association, being held in the Mother City for the first time, and in Africa for the first time in over 100 years. Brian Wafawarowa, executive director of the Publishing Association of SA (PASA) and Book Fair executive chairperson, gave City Views a few good reasons to check it out. Continued…
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