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CITY OF CAPE TOWN24 MARCH 2021 MEDIA RELEASE What residents need to know about registration and inspections of alternative water systems The City of Cape Town’s Water and Sanitation Department is currently running a programme inspecting boreholes and well-points that...

The City of Cape Town’s Development Management Scheme (DMS), which is a schedule to the City of Cape Town’s Municipal Planning By-law, 2015 (MPBL), applies to all land within the geographical area of the City, including land owned by the state. Each land unit in the...

CITY OF CAPE TOWN16 MARCH 2020 Residents warned of potential scammers posing as COVID-19 health practitioners The City has received reports of criminals approaching residents at their homes pretending to offer medical service and claiming to be doing home testing for...

The City of Cape Town’s Metropolitan Police Department invites you topartner with us in drafting our Annual Police Plan for the period fromJuly 2020 to June 2021. The Annual Police Plan will focus on the Department’s three legislative mandates, namely traffic...

On Saturday 15th February groups of Active Citizens, many of whom were schoolchildren worked together to fill over 180 full bags of rubbish and a third of a Bottle Bank from an area that extends from Simon’s Town Station through Glencairn Beach to the Car Park on the...

Next week we present Orca - The day the Great White sharks disappeared, by Richard Peirce, published by Struik Nature Great White sharks, attracted by an offshore seal colony, brought success to the fishing village of Gansbaai along the southern African coast. A...

The Old Buring Ground (1813 - 1911), Seaforth, Simon's Town(Cnr. Queens Road and Ranciman Drive) Read about the establishment of the old burying ground including the Garden of Remembrance and the oldest grave situated in there as well as some other interesting...

The Aerial Ropeway owes it's existence to the fact that the Royal Navy needed to build a new hospital and sanatorium, the old hopsital having been in use since 1810 and 1812. The chosen location was on top of the mountain in Simon's Town, which was the Naval Station...

19th August @ 3pm, we have Bella Poetica Music performing at the Museum. Funds being raised for the Teddy Bear Clinic. 29th August – Friends of the STM lecture @ 5.30 for 6pm: Danny Gildenhuys – Indigenous Flora Packing of handbags and delivery to Rape Crisis last...