News and Speeches
Have Fun - and Stay Safe over the Festive Season
21 December 2006The Disaster Risk Management Centre of the City of Cape Town is asking young people to take care during the festive season period and to dial 107 if they need medical and/or any other help of an emergency nature. In previous years paramedics have... Read More
Drink-Walking Can Be Dangerous
21 December 2006Firefighters and ambulance paramedics do not want to meet you on the roads over the New Year holiday period, which often see the tragic result of people mixing much Christmas cheer with walking on public roads. Read More
Make Way For Emergency Vehicles
21 December 2006Every day emergency vehicles respond to urgent calls for help from the public. Critical seconds can be lost if drivers don't make way for emergency vehicles by - moving to the left. Take sirens seriously and make way for an ambulance, fire engine or... Read More
City Calls for Water Savings
20 December 2006Cape Town's dam levels are currently 84% full, but with soaring summer temperatures, water demand is also at its highest levels. The City of Cape Town has called on all residents and visitors to conserve this valuable resource whilst there is... Read More
Cape Town Proposes Alternative for Red Project
19 December 2006The City of Cape Town has proposed that national government now chooses a different pilot site for the restructuring of electricity distribution under the RED system after the lapse of its operating agreement with RED1, the first pilot company set... Read More
Highest City Honours for Taliep Petersen
17 December 2006The City of Cape Town is to bestow one of its highest civic honours on slain composer and entertainer, Taliep Petersen. Executive Mayor, Alderman Helen Zille, has announced that the City will honour Petersen with a memorial tribute after a mourning... Read More
Update on White Shark Activity for Residents and Visitors
17 December 2006With the start of the peak holiday season the City of Cape Town would like to provide residents and visitors with the most current information on White Shark activity. Read More
Western Cape Mourns Taliep Petersen
16 December 2006Western Cape Provincial Speaker (Mr.) Shaun Byneveldt has learned with shock and sadness of the murder last night of the talented South African musician, singer, songwriter, playwright and producer Taliep Petersen (56). Read More
2006 Year End Message from Western Cape Minister Of Health, Minister Pierre Uys
15 December 2006I would like to extend hearty best wishes to all the people of the Western Cape and wish them well over the festive season and into the New Year. Read More
City Launches New Tourism Initiative
14 December 2006The City of Cape Town has launched a new pilot tourism route, based on rail transport. Read More
Mitchells Plain Starts New Festive Tradition
13 December 2006The Mitchells Plain community will start its own Festive Lights switch-on tradition with the first official switch-on celebration on Sunday, 17 December 2006. Read More
World High School Touch Rugby Champions do it again!
13 December 2006World High School Touch Rugby Champions, Trafalgar High, successfully defended their title in Singapore, and will be welcomed by a celebratory party led by a proud Education MEC Cameron Dugmore tomorrow (Friday 15 December), about 09h00 at the Cape... Read More
Announcement of Matric Results - Leeuwenhof Function
12 December 2006Your media organisation is invited to the Annual Announcement function of the Matric Results, with Premier Ebrahim Rasool and Education MEC Cameron Dugmore. Read More
News Highlights from City of Cape Town Council Meeting of 7 December 2006
6 December 2006Headlines Headlines City asks to get electricity distribution back R10,6 million for Khayelitsha Community Trust Westbank Clinic receives additional R2,2 million Draft Urban Agriculture Policy approved City to get own broadband network Read More
Schools Manage Transition to New Curriculum
6 December 2006Schools in the Western Cape appear to be managing the transition to the new curriculum for Grade 10 well, according to results reported to the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) thus far. Read More
City Increases Housing Grant for Poor
5 December 2006Help is at hand for thousands of Council housing residents who are struggling to keep up with their monthly rentals or installments. Read More
Water Pump Donated by Friends Group will Assist City in Fighting Veld Fires
5 December 2006Friends of the Tygerberg Hills have donated a water pump to the City of Cape Town Nature Conservation Branch to assist in fighting veld fires in the Tygerberg area. Read More
Minister Pierre Uys Praises Volunteers for their Efforts on International Volunteers Day
5 December 2006"Volunteers play a major supportive role in the health services we render, and their role will become even more important as the burden on our services increases," Minister Pierre Uys said at a Volunteers Awards Ceremony at the Red Cross Children's... Read More
WCED Asks South African Democratic Teachers' Union (SADTU) to Resume Talks on Ad Hoc Teaching Posts
5 December 2006The Western Cape Education Department (WCED) has informed the South African Democratic Teachers' Union (SADTU) that it wants to reopen a discussion on the future of 458 ad hoc teaching posts in the province. Read More
City Pays Tribute to Cape Town's 'Home Of Shakespeare'
4 December 2006Maynardville Park, which boasts one of only three open-air theatres in the world to offer regular Shakespeare performances, has received a special tribute from the City of Cape Town. Read More
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