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CBD residents and business urged to help clamp down on illegal dumping

CCID cleaning contractors J&M in the Cape Town city centre

According to the City of Cape Town about R200 million will need to be spent annually to clean up rubbish that has been dumped illegally across the city. Continued…

May 16, 2012

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Opportunities in Cape Town: We’re hiring

Cape Town International Jazz Festival free community concert ©Ed Suter

Inspired by and interested in the work of the Cape Town Partnership and the Central City Improvement District? Here’s your opportunity to become a part of it: Both organisations are hiring. Continued…

May 8, 2012

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City of Cape Town 2011/2012 Community Satisfaction Survey

Cape Town by Shaen Adey

The City of Cape Town conducts an annual Community Satisfaction Survey as part of their commitment to being a well-run city that responds to the needs of their citizens. Read the results of the survey in the press release published below. Continued…

May 8, 2012

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Strategic partnership enhances safety of CBD’s Company’s Garden

Strollers in Company's Gardens, Cape Town

The Company’s Garden, the oldest garden in South Africa and arguably one of the country’s top tourist attractions, is now under enhanced security. Continued…

May 4, 2012

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Safety Lab: Employment opportunities for social entrepreneurs and innovators

Looking towards Cape Town by Bruce Sutherland, City of Cape Town

Cape Town Partnership, over the course of the next year, will be incubating the Safety Lab – a social entrepreneurial start-up with a mandate to reduce opportunity for crime across the Western Cape. Continued…

April 12, 2012

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News of Cape flats IRT link brings Cape Town closer to its liveable city goals

A BRT bus stops at the Civic Centre Station in Cape Town, by Bruce Sutherland

Mayor Patricia de Lille’s announcement of the City of Cape Town’s draft budget for the coming financial year brought good news for beleaguered commuters from the Cape flats. The IRT is set to be expanded to include key routes to Khayelitsha and Mitchell’s Plain, which will effectively service between 75 and 80% of the city’s commuters. Continued…

March 29, 2012

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Ismaël Lô’s sell out concert sets the tone for City Hall Sessions 2012

Ismael Lo and Wakhile Xhalisa of Azania

The City Hall Sessions programme for 2012 got off to a memorable start as Senegal’s Ismaël Lô and Nyanga reggae group, Azania Ghetto Sound band, mesmerised audiences at the Cape Town City Hall, ahead of Human Rights Day on 20 March 2012. Continued…

March 27, 2012

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Cape Town Partnership applauds CTICC expansion towards a sustainable city

CTICC Expansion

The news that a trio of Cape Town architects (Piet Bakker of Stauch Voster Architects, Anya van der Merwe of Van der Merwe Miszewski Architects and Mokena Makeka of Makeka Design Lab) has been appointed by the Cape Town International Convention Centre to begin work on the R690-million expansion of the CTICC drew excitement and praise from city stakeholders.

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March 27, 2012

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