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Drawing on diversity: a City Views cover story
In honour of International Day of Biodiversity on 22 May, the May edition of City Views celebrates the abundance and variety of Cape Town, one of three cities globally that rank as an urban biodiversity hotspot.
Posted in Creative, Featured, Green, News, Stories.
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A lesson in lasting relationships in Cape Town
His t-shirt says it all: “I am M24”. For the past 12 years Nicolas, the client liaison working in the lobby of the building, has been synonymous with a visit to Naspers and Media24. Continued…
Posted in Experience Town, Featured, News, Safety & Security, Social Development, Spaces, Stories, Urban management.
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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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Serendipity in the city: A City Views cover story
Cities and serendipity are somehow synonymous: There’s something about the diversity that cities bring together in dense areas that makes them the perfect place to come across something extraordinary or surprising completely by accident. This is also what makes our urban environment rich hunting ground for photography, an art form that relies a great deal on happy accidents – finding the right shot at the right time when you happen to have your camera handy. The cover shot of our December edition of City Views captured just such a moment in our city. Here’s the back story to our front cover. Continued…
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Living in the Central City: Alan Storey
Alan Storey, minister at the Central Methodist Mission on Greenmarket Square, lives, works and gardens in the Central City. He shares some of his urban passions with City Views’ writer Alma Viviers over “heavenly coffee and wicked cupcakes”.
Posted in Developments, Experience Town, Featured, Green, News, Social Development, Spaces, Stories, Success Stories, Urban management.
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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…
Posted in About, Developments, Experience Town, Featured, News, Retailers, Safety & Security, Social Development, Spaces, Stories, Success Stories, Transport, Urban management.
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Keeping Cape Town mobile: A taxi story
What’s a day in the office like for those whose business in on the road? City Views’ writer Ambre Nicolson stopped by the Cape Town Station taxi rank and spoke to Mzi Phephani to find out. Continued…
Posted in Featured, News, Spaces, Stories, Success Stories, Transport, Urban management.
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Zachie Achmat: On coffee and life in Cape Town’s Central City
Activist and Ndifuna Ukwazi director Zackie Achmat – who is also a long-time resident of Cape Town’s inner city – took City Views’ writer Alma Viviers on a walking tour of some of his favourite haunts. Read more about his experience of Cape Town over the years, and his opinions on cities and public life. Continued…
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Chris Roper on living in Cape Town’s CBD
As editor of Mail & Guardian Online, no two days are the same for Chris Roper, and that’s precisely why he loves his work, and living between Cape Town and Joburg. We interrupted his “digital tomfoolery” to talk about Capetonians, the city centre and his favourite local authors. 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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