Mother City News

A pending Constitutional Court judgment on Tafelberg may have far-reaching consequences for City planning

• In 2015, the Western Cape Government announced it would sell the Tafelberg School site in Sea Point for R135-million.

• Housing activists then launched a legal battle to stop the sale and compel the province to consider affordable housing before selling off state-owned land to private parties.

But plan lacks firm targets, commitments, and timelines

• A Service Level Plan to give the City of Cape Town oversight of commuter rail in the metro has been years in the making.
• In December, mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis celebrated Prasa finally signing the plan.

Scientists aboard state-of-the-art research and supply vessel have been tracking ocean health

• South Africa’s icebreaker ship, the SA Agulhas II, has returned to Cape Town after taking supplies and a relief crew to South Africa’s Antarctic base.
• The ship had first sailed to East London where public were invited aboard during an open day before the two-day voyage home, which media and members of Parliament were invited to join.

The city has better preventative measures but is far less resourced than Los Angeles

A devastating fire, such as the one that has raged in Los Angeles over the past two weeks, could occur in Cape Town, say experts.

In Los Angeles, a hot summer and autumn combined with an unusually dry winter, led to the vegetation in the hills around the city being highly combustible.… Read more

Years after the City of Cape Town was ordered to clean it up, residents say the smell is nauseating

The stench of sewage from the Milnerton Lagoon in Cape Town is nothing new, but it has been nauseating over the past weeks, say residents.… Read more