The Municipality argues that residents facing homelessness will have to travel some 30km for emergency housing.
The City selected the sites as part of an effort to reverse apartheid spatial planning in Cape Town.
"I’d go so far as to say they’ve struck contaminated gold. I can smell an open tap a mile away"
Dear Arts and Culture, Let me start by commending you for choosing Archbishop Desmond Tutu as the subject of your latest mural on the eastern façade of Cape Town’s civic centre. I must, however, question the timing of the project. The artwork shrouds my department in complete darkness with a devastating effect on plant life […]
"We cannot support a discriminatory approach to housing provision"
Cape Town ratepayers will foot the bill for a court wrangle in which the DA turned on one of its own.
Cape Town ratepayers will foot the bill for a court wrangle in which the DA turned on one of its own.
Dependence on the utility may fade now that homes can feed solar power back into the grid.
The agency’s toll road fight with Cape Town has led to a clampdown on access to court papers.
The City of Cape Town continues, however, to monitor hotspots for flare-ups in the South Peninsula, with Chapman’s Peak Drive remaining closed.
Cleaners who spend their days emptying portable toilets have to eat lunch amid the stench and flies and the City doesn’t allow them to shower at work.
The City of Cape Town will go ahead with changing the name of Table Bay Boulevard to FW de Klerk Boulevard.
In response to a proposal to rename Table Bay Boulevard after former president FW de Klerk, the ANC says he played no part in liberating South Africa.
Despite strong measures by Cape Town to control the scores of ANC revelers expected, ANC anniversary celebrations will continue says Gwede Mantashe.
The annual minstrels parade in the Cape Town may not take place this year due to what Mayor Patricia de Lille suggests is a mismanagement of funds.
The City of Cape Town’s response to a social audit of janitorial services for toilets in Khayelitsha is disturbing, writes Sandra Liebenberg.
Despite a R60-million budget, employing 900 janitors for 160 communities and servicing 11 000 toilets, poor planning has failed the city.
Shortly after referring to its CCTV system as "Big Brother", the City of Cape Town says it is in the "planning phase" of a camera drone project.
The human settlements ministry says no decision has been made yet on where evicted shack dwellers will be moved to in Cape Town.
The City of Cape Town has spent over R13-million repairing stolen or vandalised flush toilets and standpipes in the past six months.
Cape Town gathered to pay tribute to Nelson Mandela in a blustery memorial.
A banned march on the City of Cape Town has been called off after the City was granted a court order to stop it from taking place.
The City of Cape Town has returned to court to resolve an ongoing dispute over the proposed N1/N2 Winelands Toll Highway Project, says an official.
Cape Town has been given a new name by the Khoisan community, soon to be emblazoned across a billboard in the city centre.
Public protector Thuli Madonsela is to investigate a proposed property deal between Cape Town City and media holding company Naspers.
Mayor Patricia de Lille says the City of Cape Town has received an unqualified audit for the 2010/2011 financial year despite the many challenges.
The results of the May 18 elections will indicate whether the Democratic Alliance can continue to grow.
Tony Ehrenreich has one dominant concern in Cape Town: putting social justice first.
The municipal election campaign is in the toilet, literally — the delivery of the most basic service of all has come to dominate the polls.
Despite the matter being the ANC’s major electioneering weapon against the DA, the City of CT has not yet moved to comply with a court judgement.
Cosatu’s May Day rally will be held at Athlone stadium instead of the Cape Town stadium, after a dispute over the cost of renting the World Cup venue.
It’s a recurring story. At the 11th hour the city authorities are at loggerheads with the associations that organise the Cape Town Carnival.