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10 July 2026
There has been considerable confusion and misinformation this week regarding a notice issued by our Environmental Health Practitioners
20 November 2025
The Cape Peninsula Baboon Management Joint Task Team (CPBMJTT) has finalised and adopted the Action Plan which details the practical implementation of the Cape Peninsula Baboon Strategic Management Plan
05 November 2025
The City is horrified by the brutal poaching of 19 Angulate Tortoises at the Table Bay Nature Reserve.
06 September 2025
The department has just over 2 200 uniformed members who, in the past year, issued 376 113 fines for transgressions across nearly 30 different pieces of municipal and national legislation and attended 312 211 service requests across the metropole.
11 June 2025
On Wednesday, 4 June 2025, various stakeholders hosted a plenary session to help raise awareness on the Integrated Waste Management By-Law.
25 March 2025
The domestic animal survey was launched on Monday, 17 March 2025, in collaboration with the animal welfare sector
17 March 2025
The domestic animal survey is the latest in a series of interventions undertaken by the City administration to promote and ensure the welfare of animals in the metropole.
20 November 2024
The City’s Coastal Management Department was immediately activated to oversee the retrieval operation
10 November 2024
In the three months between July and September this year, the volunteers logged nearly 25 000 hours of service to compliment public safety efforts.
17 October 2024
The City would like to remind residents and visitors that it is against the law to approach any whale or dolphin within 300m of the shoreline.
26 August 2024
The successes of the past week are a timely reminder of the benefits of CCTV in detecting incidents of crime, but also other emergencies or issues affecting public safety.
24 November 2023
We are appealing to members of the public, tour operators, tour guides and all our visitors to work with the City and DFFE to put an end to this abuse and cruelty that seals endure during training
25 October 2023
Traditionally, October and November see an increase in complaints related to fireworks, particularly in relation to Guy Fawkes on 5 November.
07 September 2023
This year, we celebrate 10 years of the Mass Animal Sterilisation Project (MASP) and send grateful thanks to the City of Cape Town for their continued support and recognition
09 June 2023
The City’s Animal Control Unit has seen a sharp increase in the impoundment of animals in this financial year
09 May 2023
The Community Services and Health Directorate first disbursed Grant-in-Aid funding to the Cape of Good Hope SPCA in 2013 for a pilot mass pet sterilisation project in Dunoon and Brown’s Farm
30 April 2023
During the first three months of 2023, the City’s Metro Police and Law Enforcement Departments made 4 456 arrests
26 April 2023
The City of Cape Town’s Council today approved the Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) between the City, SANParks, and CapeNature to pave the way for the sustainable management of the Chacma baboon population of the Cape Peninsula.
17 February 2023
STATEMENT BY THE CITY’S MAYORAL COMMITTEE MEMBER FOR URBAN WASTE MANAGEMENT, ALDERMAN GRANT TWIGG
29 December 2022
The City’s Water and Sanitation Directorate is reminding residents and businesses to be water wise at all times, especially during prolonged high stages of load-shedding this summer. See how you too can be water wise.
22 November 2022
The debate has been raging for months now about a possible ban on pit-bulls, in the wake of numerous attacks
01 November 2022
The signage warns visitors to keep a respectful distance from marine wildlife at all times
20 October 2022
We are blessed in Cape Town to have a coastline that is still rich in biodiversity and home to many wild marine and coastal animals including seals, otters, penguins and many more
02 October 2022
In the run up to Diwali and Guy Fawkes, residents are reminded that permits are required for fireworks displays.
25 September 2022
During the last financial year, the Environmental Health Service attended to 8 356 complaints from the public.
22 September 2022
Cape Town has a very robust private organic waste processing sector offering many alternatives to landfilling
12 August 2022
The City of Cape Town will, as from next week, meet with residents and businesses from baboon-affected areas to discuss a suite of more sustainable proposals
26 July 2022
The City proposes that under the new programme, communities will become directly involved in devising and implementing solutions that are suitable to their unique circumstances
09 June 2022
The City will meet with residents and businesses from baboon-affected areas to discuss a wide range of proposals, many of which will be community driven and sustainable in the long-term
01 March 2022
The City of Cape Town’s Water and Sanitation Directorate would like to remind residents and businesses of some basic tips to help them find and fix leaks on their properties
22 February 2022
The recently promulgated Animal Keeping By-law regulates the number of pets that any one person may keep, and the conditions under which those pets must be kept
14 February 2022
The Paws-a-while animal adoption fair held at Observatory on Sunday
17 December 2021
The City wants to inform the public that the humane use of paintball markers will remain in place with ongoing oversight by CapeNature and the Cape of Good Hope SPCA.
13 December 2021
MEDIA STATEMENT BY SAFETY AND SECURITY PORTFOLIO CHAIRPERSON, COUNCILLOR MZWAKHE NQAVASHE
08 November 2021
Safety and Security weekly roundup.
15 October 2021
Persons wishing to host fireworks displays can apply for a permit to do so
14 October 2021
To ensure it delivers effectively, the NMBM’s Economic Development Tourism and Agriculture Department, embarked on a study tour to identify best practices adopted by well-functioning cities and classified the City of Cape Town as one such city.
10 October 2021
The Cape of Good Hope SPCA and the City of Cape Town’s Law Enforcement Animal Control Unit confiscated four dogs, and various paraphernalia associated with dogfighting was found at the scene.
29 September 2021
Council’s approval of these by-laws follows the Mayoral Committee’s greenlight, and the unanimous support of the Safety and Security Portfolio Committee earlier this month.
08 September 2021
These by-laws will help us protect land and buildings against unlawful occupation, and ensure the humane and constitutional enforcement of the prohibition on sleeping in public places
01 September 2021
The bylaws are amendments to the Traffic Bylaw, Animal Keeping Bylaw and the Bylaw relating to Streets, Public Places and Prevention of Noise Nuisances
31 July 2021
The draft Unlawful Occupation of Land by-law is expected to streamline procedures underpinning the effective resolution of complaints, and to mitigate risks to the City, individuals, and landowners, by ensuring that necessary and ongoing enforcement actions to protect land are supported by legislation.
27 July 2021
The City of Cape Town, as with other metros in South Africa, has seen an unprecedented increase in unlawful occupation since the start of the Covid-19 national lockdown in March 2021.
19 July 2021
Weekly dam levels' update.
12 July 2021
The total capacity of dams supplying the Cape Town metro increased by 4% in the last week, from 89,2% the previous week to 93,2%
08 July 2021
The Recreation and Parks Department received numerous complaints during the past few months of residents ‘dumping’ rabbits at the park in Vredekloof
05 July 2021
The total capacity of dams supplying the Cape Town metro increased by a whopping 13,8% in the last week, from 75,4% the previous week to 89,2%
28 June 2021
25 June 2021
Given the support from both CapeNature and the Cape of Good Hope SPCA for the humane use of paintball markers, and in the interest of the safety of baboons and residents alike
21 June 2021
The total capacity of dams supplying the Cape Town metro decreased by 0,6% in the last week, from 75% the previous week to 74,4%
7 August - 11 September 2026, Vasco Estate (Goodwood)
The Recreation and Parks Department is responsible for 201 Civic Centres, including Community Halls, Centres, Recreation Hubs and Multi-purpose centres around the metro.
The City of Cape Town today signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Local Government Sector Education and Training Authority (LGSETA), establishing a multi-year strategic partnership to expand skills development
See all tenders received by the City of Cape Town.
The Killarney Drop-off facility accepts clean, garage or garden waste, recyclables and ru...
3 August - 4 September 2026
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