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A UWC study finds that affordability, family needs and local food access often shape South Africans’ food choices more than health. The post Affordability shapes South Africans’ food choices, UWC study finds appeared first on City Vision.
Come to the table this Mandela Day. Bree Street public langtafel for up to 1 600 people, with free bread, sponsored meals and more, from 12:00 to 17:00. The post Come to the table: 1 600 seats, one Mandela Day ‘langtafel’ on Bree Street appeared first on City Vision.
The Western Cape Government’s Service Excellence Awards are open for entries until 31 July. Recognise someone making a difference in your community. The post Do you know a local hero? Nominate them for the WCG Service Excellence Awards appeared first on City Vision.
The City of Cape Town’s substance abuse prevention programmes reached 5 193 learners in nine months, well above the 3 500 target. The post Record demand for City’s substance-abuse programmes appeared first on City Vision.
GOOD Statement by Roscoe Palm, GOOD City of Cape Town Councillor: The GOOD Party has exposed a web of shifting excuses and bureaucratic buck-passing by the City of Cape Town’s Urban Mobility Directorate regarding the collapse of MyCiTi card-loading services in Walmer Estate. An email chain between GOOD City Councillor Roscoe Palm and senior transport officials …
Our relationships with wildlife are dynamic. They can change rapidly and unexpectedly. In South Africa, these changes are visible in tourists searching kelp forests in Cape Town for octopuses and communities contesting baboon management in suburbs. Similar changes are playing out worldwide as people and wildlife increasingly share space and as wildlife communities, human practices, …
GOOD Statement by Suzette Little, GOOD City of Cape Town Councillor: The Auditor-General’s findings regarding procurement processes within the City of Cape Town have vindicated concerns that residents, community activists, and opposition parties have been raising for years. For too long, legitimate questions about tender processes, supply chain management, policy amendments, condonation practices, procurement oversight, …
GOOD Speech given during the GOOD City of Cape Town Mayoral Launch by Brett Herron, GOOD Secretary-General & City of Cape Town Mayoral Candidate: Cape Town is an exceptional city. Few cities in the world rival our unique combination of natural beauty… temperate climate… fertile soil… local culture… world-class wine production… restaurants… shopping… It’s a long list. …
Ian Cameron raised concerns about staffing shortages and inadequate facilities at the Kuils River FCS unit following an oversight visit this week. The post Cameron raises concerns over staffing and facilities at Kuils River FCS unit appeared first on City Vision.
The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) yesterday (27 May 2026) called on the City of Cape Town Council to ensure that residents’ rights, particularly their right to peace and safety in their living areas, are protected and prioritised, while still allowing for economic growth. This follows residents and businessowners, primarily from the Bo-Kaap, expressing serious …
The City of Cape Town has greenlit plans to develop a parking facility at the civic centre into affordable housing and mixed-use development. The post Cape Town to turn civic centre parking lot into affordable homes appeared first on City Vision.
Liphapang Kortjass is one of thousands of Island informal settlement residents whose homes remain under water after heavy rains on Monday and Tuesday. Thousands of people in Island informal settlement in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, have been forced to seek shelter with relatives and neighbours due to flooding. Community leaders say they have opened their homes …
Vosho residents protested, blocking Mew Way drive in Khayelitsha earlier this week to demand they be moved immediately. By Friday morning, all of the remaining families were relocated by the City of Cape Town. Inclement weather had been delaying the relocation of dozens of families from Vosho informal settlement in Khayelitsha to serviced sites in …
In February, at a University of Cape Town Summer School talk about how to find help for persistent pain, a woman in the audience put up her hand during the Q&A session. “I’m 73 and have reached the stage where my life is defined by pain. I wake up and I think to myself, ‘What …
Refugees living in Paint City in Bellville, Cape Town, say life in the camp is tough during winter. An application to evict hundreds of refugees from emergency housing at Wingfield in Maitland and Paint City in Bellville was to be heard in the Western Cape High Court last week but is now set down for …
Volunteers from the Fisantekraal community have planted indigenous trees on the banks of the Mosselbank River. Despite the rain on Saturday, volunteers in Fisantekraal, a township about ten kilometres northeast of Durbanville, came out to plant over 100 indigenous trees along the Mosselbank River. The plantings are for Earth Day (22 April) and form part …
Gogo Nobesuthu Qayisa, 75, lives in a dilapidated one-room shack with two of her children and six of her grandchildren. The shack floods when it rains. There is no electricity or tap water and the toilet is not working. The family cooks outside on wood fires. Next to her shack, a few incomplete cement block …
South Africa’s only state gender-affirming clinic provides surgery to only four patients a year, while receiving up to ten new referrals a month. Patients joining the surgical waiting list today may wait 20 to 30 years — a backlog worsened by covid, public health budget cuts, and the collapse of NGO services after international funding …
GOOD Statement by Brett Herron, GOOD Secretary-General & Member of the Western Cape Parliament: The Western Cape Government wastes Billions of Rands on a meaningless Safety Plan instead of discharging its responsibilities to oversee the transformation of apartheid-imposed conditions of hopelessness on the Cape Flats, where a large proportion of the province’s citizens live. The …
Humans and four-legged friends are invited to strut their stuff at the eighth annual Paws on the Promenade on Sunday 12 April. The post Sea Point promenade turns into doggy runway for animal clinic charity walk appeared first on City Vision.
GOOD Statement by Brett Herron, Unite for Change Leadership Council Member & GOOD Secretary-General: The GOOD Party is proud to announce Hajiera Arnolds as our candidate for the upcoming by-election in Ward 16, Cloetesville, Stellenbosch, scheduled for 29 April 2026. Arnolds, a lifelong resident of Cloetesville, is a deeply respected community leader who has dedicated over …
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. The post Protected: SPONSORED | Partners unite to bring free fibre to Western Cape schools appeared first on City Vision.
GOOD Statement by Siyabulela Mamkeli, GOOD City of Cape Town Councillor: The recent statement by Acting Police Minister Firoz Cachalia confirms what many residents and safety experts have been saying for months, infrastructure alone cannot replace policing or address the root causes of violent crime. While restricting pedestrian access to highways may reduce some opportunistic …
A one-day seminar, titled “Gangsterism and Social Dysfunction”, will take place on Wednesday 18 March from 08:30 to 17:00 at UWC’s School of Public Health. The post UWC seminar to examine root causes and impact of gang violence appeared first on City Vision.
