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"The Sea Point DA branch hosted a breakfast for local business people and residents to meet the new Mayor, Alderman Dan Plato. Here he is with the local branch chairperson, Teresa Omodeo, and Cllr JP Smith at the Hotel School in Mouille Point." |
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The City established a special policing unit to fight the scourge of metal theft around the City with millions of Rands of copper cable, pumps, train components, Telkom installations, and similar metal fixtures being stolen. |
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http://www.capetown.gov.za/en/Pages/CharitybikerfundraiservisitsCapeTown.aspx Charity biker fundraiser visits Cape Town
The
City of Cape Town welcomed Japanese charity fundraiser and adventure
motorcyclist Shinji Kazama to the city, at the end of his 78-day journey
from the northern tip of Africa to Cape Point, the south-western tip of
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Sewerage charges explained. Click here to read the full story. . .
Recycling along the Atlantic Seaboard
For several years Cllr Smith has been trying to get recycling projects going
along the Atlantic Seaboard. While there were several privately run initiatives,
the City was not formally driving a process until a pilot Waste Minimisation
project was formally launched in 2006. Cllr Smith even went so far as to canvass
five blocks of flats in Green Point himself to get the pilot study started.
The City of Cape Town is committed to sustainable waste management, including
investing in and developing sustainable recycling strategies. To this end, the
City has developed a recycling program known as Think Twice. Think Twice is the
core message underpinning the City’s recycling service and is the brand that
is linked to the free door-to-door voluntary recycling project being rolled out
in the Atlantic Seaboard area that is aimed at reducing waste to landfill.
Approximately 6000 tons of waste is dumped in Cape Town every day, rapidly
filling up the already limited landfill space that remains. The Think Twice
programme is the City’s response to this growing problem whereby residents and
businesses will be encouraged to implement a two bag system for their solid
waste. People are being asked to think twice about how they dispose of their
waste, and instead of simply dumping it all together in one black bag, to
separate the recyclable material from the non-recyclable waste within their
homes and places of work so that with only a little effort from everyone we can
create a more sustainable system of waste disposal that will reduce both energy
usage and greenhouse gasses.
In the case of suburbs along the Atlantic Seaboard and other parts of the City,
many homeless persons or street people also make a living engaging in informal
recycling, removing recyclable material from the bins that residents put outside
for the City Solid Waste Department to empty on the refuse collection day. While
the positive impact on recycling and the entrepreneurial activities by street
people to sustain themselves is admirable, this informal recycling practice has
some serious unintended consequences.
The City engages in various strategies to assist homeless people or street
people to reintegrate with their families or communities and a number of
projects are funded by the City for this purpose, including outreach workers,
sheltered employment, job placement, skills training, emergency accommodation,
shelter and second phase accommodation as well as alcohol rehabilitation and
psychiatric services.
Over time we have realised that the informal recycling practices had the effect
of making street people resistant to attempts to assist them in rebuilding a
life off the streets, mainly due to the fact that the unstructured access to
income lead to ongoing substance abuse problems, mainly with alcohol. It is
therefore preferable for residents and complexes in the area to participate in
the Think Twice formal recycling project, which can ensure that jobs that are
created can be channelled to street people that have committed to reintegration
and that the recycling industry incentivises people off the street and not
disincentivises people still on the street.
Over the past 18 months the City has been running a pilot project in the Sea
Point area collecting recyclables from 100 complexes. In line with the
Integrated Waste Management Policy (IWMP), implementation of the Think Twice
programme and planning for the 2010 World Cup Soccer event, the City has now
expanded the pilot project to include complexes, businesses, etc. in the greater
Sea Point, Green Point, Mouille Point and Three Anchor Bay areas.
Mandla Recycling is running the project on behalf of the City’s Solid Waste
Management Department as the contractor for Think Twice in the Mouille Point,
Green Point, Three Anchor Bay and Sea Point area servicing residential and
non-residential properties. They can be contacted on directly on
021-933 3087 / 072 499 9435 - Mr. James Worsley.
e-mail: info@thinktwice.co.za
web: www.thinktwice.co.za
Wasteplan has been appointed by the City as the contractor to roll out
Think Twice in the Fresnaye and Bantry Bay area servicing residential and non-residential properties. They can be
contacted on directly on the National Call Centre: 086 111 6699 or via email:
tina@wasteplan.co.za .
Their website has more information at: www.wasteplan.co.za
For further information on how the Think Twice programme will work in your
specific place of residence please see the attached document or contact
these recycling operators directly.
Read more. . . Information about recycling
Read more. . . Information Flyer
Sea Point has changed for the better
Drive
down Main or Regent Road and see the difference. It may be true that we still
have more to do, but Sea Point has come a long way from the crime, grime and
sleaze it became known for a more than a decade ago.
All around you see buildings being redeveloped, the streets are a little
cleaner, crime figures are down, there are almost no buildings standing empty
(as recently as 2000 there were more than 80 premises on Main Road standing
empty) and we even have our Christmas lights back.
This has been the end result of a convergence of forces fighting for the
restoration of the dignity of this area: better policing from SAPS, Cllr Smith
and a more responsive City Council, the City Improvement District (CID), the CPF
and their Yellow Bib patrols and increased levels of community activism.
Win it back street by street
Cllr
Smith would like to get more residents involved in making our streets safer,
making the area cleaner and fixing up broken municipal infrastructure.
He is inviting residents to host a house meeting for their street, which he will
help set up.
He will arrange to have a small flyer printed (which will require an RSVP so
that we don’t publish any addresses) and bring whichever City officials are
necessary.
Call Cllr Smith to arrange one for your street.
for mothers with children:
Mouille Point Adventure Playground is upgraded
“Pavilion Park” Re-Opens
Cllr Smith has been working with the City Parks department since 2001 to
resuscitate several parks in the area. 
“It would not have been possible without various residents supporting parks
around them, including the Friends of the Library Gardens,” he says.
However, one project that JP has seen as a flagship is Pavilion Park (on the Bantry Bay side of the Pavilion), which has been derelict for more than a decade now.
Click here to read the full story. . .
Promenade Upgrade
One of the areas that have been getting much attention from Cllr Smith is the Sea Point and Mouille Point Promenade. “The two most visible parts of the Atlantic Seaboard are Main Road and the Promenade - in fact, much of public opinion about how well the area is doing is based on the appearance of this space. Restoring the dignity of the Atlantic Seaboard means fixing up the crime and grime along these two areas first and foremost,” says JP.
Click here to read the full story. . .
We square up against bad Sea Point Pavilion (re)development
The proposed
redevelopment of the Sea Point Pavilion started back in 1998 when the City
Council put out a proposal call for the redevelopment of the site.
Now, a decade later, the approval of the process that was started at the time
is still . . .
Click here to read the
full story. . .
'Mr.
Fix-it': the show has ended after 15 months, having solved hundreds of
complaints on air and off.
Click
here to visit the Radio Station
The breakfast show is hosted by Lee
Downs
The
2010 roadworks will last 19 months. . . . Click
here to read the full story. . .
Aerial
pictures of the Green Point Stadium progress as at
Click here to view more photos. . .
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