Mother City News

The City has been proactive about closing beaches following reported sewage spills, but nothing done at other beaches where tests show water is highly polluted

Activists concerned City’s routine coastal water quality testing is little more than a tick-box exercise

Water quality test results from December show numerous beaches were too polluted for safe swimming, but nothing was done by the City despite other beaches having being closed during the holiday season following reported sewage spills.… Read more

The neglected, derelict Strandfontein Pavilion has been earmarked to become a new mixed use development node featuring almost 1,200 residential units with retail and ecologically sensitive recreational facilities to banish the resort’s apartheid origins.

Currently isolated from Strandfontein’s urban edge, it is hoped the development will spur further private investment in the surrounding area, upgrading the under-used False Bay coastline between Muizenberg and Strand.… Read more

Cape Town still has a sewage pollution crisis, but mayor ‘inherited a bad hand’ and is ‘on the right track’

It has been a year since Geordin Hill-Lewis donned Cape Town’s mayoral chain and declared the city’s sewage pollution crisis a top priority, yet many of the biggest pollution problems remain largely unchanged.… Read more

Councillor Alex Lansdowne, who chairs the mayoral advisory committee for water quality in wetlands and waterways, lists 30 key achievements by the City of Cape Town, implemented together with partners and community organisations, to clean up Cape Town’s wetlands and waterways over the last year.