City lights up Atlantis streets
31 October 2025
City teams visited the Atlantis area where new streetlights are being installed. The lights were installed in Swift Road in Robinvale, Akkerendam Court in Sherwood and Charles Matthews Street in Atlantis. This project is part of the City’s ongoing investment in electricity infrastructure, ensuring communities benefit from reliable services. In addition, the installation of new streetlighting plays an important role in creating safer communities and improving road conditions for motorists and pedestrians.
‘We recently conducted a site visit to Atlantis to observe the streetlight installation in the area. The installation of the new LED lights forms part of the City-wide 25-year programme for the extension of public lighting infrastructure. There are many benefits of these LED lights as they produce clearer light compared to traditional bulbs, improving visibility at night. They are also more energy efficient, have a longer lifespan, and require less maintenance. Importantly, this means fewer disruptions for residents.
'Our streetlight maintenance programme also plays a vital role in contributing to safer neighbourhoods, as well-lit streets help improve road safety for motorists and pedestrians. Energy teams have worked hard to fix streetlight-related faults and just over 8 000 streetlights were fixed across the metro last month.
‘We remind residents that vandalism and theft of streetlight infrastructure not only takes funding from critical infrastructure expansion projects, but also means communities won't experience these essential services. Residents are encouraged to report damaged or faulty streetlights via the City’s service channels so teams can attend to repairing them as quickly as possible,’ said the Mayoral Committee Member for Energy, Alderman Xanthea Limberg.
Protect Your Power Campaign to tackle R62 million vandalism, theft crisis
The City has spent approximately R62 million in the past financial year on electricity infrastructure maintenance and replacement.
Protect Your Power is a first of a kind campaign which highlights the massive impact of vandalism, theft, and illegal connections that leave our communities, neighbourhoods, and roadways in the dark. The City is calling on all residents to help us Protect Your Power and build safer, brighter communities by reporting any suspicious activity anonymously to the City’s Public Emergency Communication Centre (PECC).
Let’s ACT: Protect Your Power
Report suspicious behaviour to the City’s PECC: 021 480 7700
The SAPS remains the lead authority in crime prevention.
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City of Cape Town, Media Office
