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04 November 2025
Extensive infrastructure upgrades, proactive maintenance and environmental monitoring continue to form part of the City’s long-term plan to restore the Milnerton Lagoon.
23 October 2025
The City’s Water and Sanitation Directorate attended to 110 598 sewer blockages across its more than 9000 km sewer pipeline network during the 2024/2025 financial year
04 July 2025
During heavy rainfall, water ingress from gutters that are incorrectly connected can overwhelm the sewer network
08 May 2025
The City’s Water and Sanitation Directorate manages 487 sewer pump stations across Cape Town, 102 of which are coastal stations
30 April 2025
The City’ has appointed a contractor for the Trappies Bulk Sewer rehabilitation project to tackle sewer overflows in Strand and Gordon’s Bay.
23 August 2024
Rehabilitation of the 900mm diameter Trappies Bulk Sewer pipeline in Strand will address critical structural deterioration of the existing sewer network leading to frequent pipe bursts and overflows.
16 May 2024
With winter on our doorstep, the City’s Water and Sanitation Directorate has been busy preparing its infrastructure and systems for the rainy season which generally sees extra stormwater entering its networks.
11 February 2024
The City is serious about tackling illegal connections to municipal stormwater and sewer systems.
17 July 2023
Residents and motorists are advised that the section of De Villiers Street between Myburgh and Church streets has been closed for safety reasons so that the contractor appointed by the City’s Water and Sanitation Directorate can do emergency repairs to the collapsed sewer in this vicinity.
07 July 2023
When sewage is spilled into the street or enters the stormwater system, it ends up in the rivers and wetlands and pollutes our natural waters.
19 June 2023
During this time where Cape Town is experiencing heavy rain, residents are reminded to log sewer overflows and any other water and sanitation related matters immediately using one of the City’s official reporting channels, such as WhatsApp on 060 018 1505, so it can be resolved in the shortest possible time.
16 June 2023
Proposed road layout and access changes around Village Plaza in Gordon’s Bay
26 April 2023
Residents are reminded to log sewer overflows immediately using one of the City’s official reporting channels, such as WhatsApp and the City’s website
13 April 2023
City is on track to proactively jet-clean 200 kilometres of sewer pipeline ahead of the winter season
06 October 2022
Over recent months sewers that have collapsed in De Villiers and De Ruyter Streets have been repaired.
31 August 2022
City's water pollution inspectors will be checking the illegal stormwater-to-sewer connections in the Gordon's Bay suburbs of Admirals Park and Anchorage Park from 1 September 2022.
21 June 2022
Over the past week, heavy rains saw dams supplying Cape Town increase by 6,9% to 71,2%
16 June 2022
Councillor Quintas site visit to the Belmont Park Pond.
17 May 2022
Residents urged to help address the illegal stormwater-to-sewer connections as they contribute to sewer overflows when raining
05 May 2022
The City is doing our part now to prepare for winter
01 August 2021
The City’s monitoring of poor water quality at Rietvlei is showing that the heavy rainfall and stormwater ingress into sewers in recent weeks
The sewer overflow was the result of heavy rains leading to significant stormwater ingress, damaged manholes in the vicinity and infrastructure damage due to illegal dumping into the sewer system
22 July 2021
The spill is the result of infrastructure damage due to illegal dumping into the sewer system, significant stormwater ingress and the damaged manholes
08 July 2021
To guard against the risk to human health, the vlei has been temporarily closed for recreational activity until further notice.
10 May 2021
There are many illegal stormwater-to-sewer cross-connections on private properties in areas across Cape Town
21 December 2020
Over the coming months, the City’s Water and Sanitation Services Department will be visiting properties in Hout Bay to address illegal stormwater-to-sewer connections
30 September 2020
The City of Cape Town’s Transport Directorate is implementing recovery plans to attend to potholes after the hard lock down and winter rains.
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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