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21 July 2026
The bulk of the budget - R87 million – is for initiatives supporting people sleeping rough in the street
31 March 2026
Mayor Hill-Lewis City of Hope Budget Speech
25 February 2026
The Mayoral Committee Member for Energy, Alderman Xanthea Limberg, addressed Africa’s Green Economy Summit today, 25 February 2026
29 January 2026
All work, no play
20 November 2025
We’re asking our indigent residents and pensioners to apply for help with service and rates costs
30 September 2025
Reach for your Dreams
16 September 2025
Organisations that provides arts, culture and heritage programmes received Grant-in-Aid from the City of Cape Town
24 August 2025
The City is concerned that President Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation promise for increased affordable housing funding is yet to materialise.
23 June 2025
Through Ukwindla’s facilitation, 100 young residents were recruited and equipped with personal protective equipment (PPE) to take part in the clean-up operation
11 June 2025
The Durbanville Children’s Home, benefitted from a R150 000 donation from the City of Cape Town’s Mayoral Fund
19 May 2025
Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis has called on Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana to ensure no cuts to municipal funding
30 April 2025
The City is looking to extend rates rebates to more property owners and pensioners.
23 April 2025
The City of Cape Town offers the lowest monthly municipal bill of South Africa’s ‘big five’ metros
15 April 2025
City of Cape Town has tabled the most inclusive social assistance package for indigent relief and rates rebates based on an analysis of the 2025_26 draft budgets for each metro
09 April 2025
The rate-in-rand is a statutory formula used by municipalities to calculate property rates
27 March 2025
“Invested in Hope” Budget 2025/26
30 September 2024
The City held a social support drive in Manenberg to assist qualifying residents.
13 September 2024
The City of Cape Town joined National Treasury and several representatives from other municipalities at the Cape Town International Convention Centre
22 August 2024
The City notes the protest in Lavender Hill related to disputed electricity meter tampering incidents.
Mayor’s Council Speech 22 Aug 2024 – Cape Town spends SA-record R9,4bn on infrastructure
In total, a full 94% of the City's infrastructure budget was spent or contractually committed for 2023/24.
04 August 2024
The City's Community, Arts and Culture Department supports various organisations through GIA funding, to deliver impactful projects which contribute to the city's cultural vibrancy and community wellbeing.
25 July 2024
Council Speech- 25 July 2024
28 June 2024
Launched by the National Government 20 years ago, the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) is now in its 14th year of implementation at the City of Cape Town.
19 April 2024
The City is proposing some R4,8bn in social support for the indigent and for pensioners who qualify for assistance.
05 April 2024
The City of Cape Town confirms that R70 555 000 in Informal Settlements Upgrade Partnership Grant (ISUPG) funding was gazetted for transfer to the City by the National Minister on 20 March 2024
22 February 2024
Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis has condemned a major R540m cut in national funding.
21 February 2024
The City of Cape Town’s Urban Waste Management Directorate is urging communities to join hands in the fight against illegal dumping by organising once-off community clean-up events.
19 February 2024
Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis has called on Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana not to cut grant-funding to municipalities and provinces as part of budget austerity measures
26 October 2023
Even as our city and our country have come together so wonderfully in support of our sports teams, so we have watched in growing alarm as the world increasingly has been rent apart by the horrors of war.
03 October 2023
The City’s Indigent Support Drive continues this week in areas across the metro
01 October 2023
The City’s Arts and Culture Branch invites registered non-profit organisations to apply for funding
27 September 2023
Challenging the status quo of informality through new vision, vigour and greater partnerships has been top of the agenda at the City’s Human Settlement’s Directorate’s Informal Settlements Strategic Partnership session.
26 September 2023
City disaster risk management and frontline service teams remain on the ground assisting vulnerable residents in informal areas that have been impacted by the extraordinary storm that ravaged Cape Town,
20 September 2023
The City is assisting households with an income of R7 500 or less per month.
17 September 2023
The City is launching its Indigent Support campaign this month. Our team of experts will be in communities to offer assistance and help residents to complete their applications.
28 August 2023
Social housing opportunities provide families with affordable housing on well-located, accessible land, close to urban areas.
25 August 2023
The City has been able to reduce Eskom’s 18,49% increase to 17,6% for residents, and is the metro offering the most comprehensive protection for subsidised lifeline customers
25 July 2023
We have expanded the qualifying threshold for pensioners and social grant recipients to enable additional residents to benefit from the Lifeline tariff and rates rebates
14 July 2023
With the start of the new municipal financial year, applications are now open for rates and services relief.
05 July 2023
As Eskom’s tariff hike enters the municipal billing cycle from July, the City of Cape Town is offering unprecedented social relief measures for households in 2023/24.
07 June 2023
The City of Cape Town hosted the third annual EPWP Awards ceremony on Friday, 2 June 2023.
31 May 2023
Budget Vote Speech
30 May 2023
The City has a well-established track record of services and support to vulnerable individuals, as well as the NPOs who work tirelessly in pursuit of making a meaningful difference in people's lives.
15 May 2023
Contrary to National Human Settlements Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi’s remarks yesterday, the City of Cape Town has already allocated funds for upgrades to 16 informal settlements in Khayelitsha formed during the Covid-19 lockdown.
26 April 2023
COUNCIL SPEECH: 26 April 2023
21 April 2023
Social housing is a key pillar of the strategy to deliver more affordable social housing projects, located in well-located areas.
06 April 2023
We have done our best to keep affordability front of mind while not risking the delivery of services while investing in Cape Town's future.
30 March 2023
The City’s proposed R7,6 billion human settlements budget for the next three years focuses on public housing upgrades, affordable housing in well-located areas
22 February 2023
We are clearly delivering despite the immense challenges we are facing. The unprecedented large-scale unlawful occupations created 186 new informal settlements, or more than 69 000 new structures (between March 2020 to December 2021).
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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