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29 June 2026
In one simple summary: Five years ago, there was much of this City’s infrastructure grid that was under severe strain.
11 June 2026
No one will be without water.
27 May 2026
Mayor Hill-Lewis Council Speech
The City has opened supplementary public participation on amendments to its City of Hope Budget 2026/27 following the Western Cape High Court’s ruling on tariff structures.
22 May 2026
The City of Cape Town will publish amendments to its tabled Budget 2026/27 for public comment
01 May 2026
Team Cape Town, let’s continue to save water even though recent rains increased dam levels by 2,4% since last week. Saving water helps keep Cape Town’s dams fuller for longer.
30 April 2026
It remains my firm belief that Cape Town cannot truly work unless it works for everyone
20 April 2026
The new Safety and Security functionality on the City App allows the public to log certain categories of by-law and policing incidents
19 February 2026
The lower rate-in-rand is among several proposed measures to help keep property rates increases to a minimum for most homeowners
10 February 2026
The City is doing roadworks along Frans Conradie Drive in Boston as well as on Old Paarl Road in Bellville.
02 December 2025
Residents are reminded to be alert and aware of scammers posing as City Water and Sanitation staff soliciting payment from customers to avoid supposed water restrictions/disconnections
18 September 2025
The City's municipal offices, including cash, motor vehicle registration and licensing, Human Settlements offices as well as Driving Licence Testing Centres (DLTCs) and municipal courts will be closed on the public holiday, 24 September 2025
13 August 2025
We are committed to assisting prepaid electricity customers take control of their electricity usage
29 July 2025
City customers are advised of the looming eBill deadline that will see all municipal accounts being sent via email and not via the postal service.
28 June 2025
Households are reminded that there is some room to reduce monthly municipal service costs.
27 June 2025
Cape Town’s Council has approved a number of changes to the Municipal Planning By-law (MPBL) to make it easier to build and develop in the city.
26 June 2025
Cape Town’s Council has approved a number changes to the Municipal Planning By-law (MPBL)
Mayor’s Council Speech
The City’s Invested in Hope Budget for 2025/26
08 June 2025
The City urges all residents to make the switch to emailed accounts before 31 December 2025.
28 May 2025
The City of Cape Town has tabled expanded rates relief measures and other changes to the proposed
19 May 2025
The City reminds all residents to make the switch to emailed municipal accounts before 31 December 2025.
14 April 2025
All residents should note the deadline to switch to emailed municipal accounts before 31 December 2025
27 March 2025
“Invested in Hope” Budget 2025/26
Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis has announced a South African-record infrastructure investment of R39,7bn over three years in an address to City Council
09 March 2025
The City of Cape Town’s Mayoral Committee Member for Corporate Services, Alderman Theresa Uys, visited the Lwandle Community Hall in Strand
27 February 2025
The City will no longer send printed bills via the South African Postal Service after 31 December 2025 as part of its efforts to move accounts to email
04 December 2024
The courts have repeatedly affirmed that Nersa may only approve tariffs based on detailed cost-of-supply studies
24 November 2024
The City of Cape Town strongly condemns recent incidents of intimidation, directed at staff while they are executing their duties.
18 November 2024
The City called on Nersa to reject Eskom’s application.
07 November 2024
Residents can now get the latest updates directly from the Water and Sanitation Directorate by following the City’s WhatsApp Channel or City Alerts on X.
18 September 2024
All sectional title owners are responsible for their own rates and taxes, which is billed directly to owners by the City
16 July 2024
Recently Cape Town has been hard hit by unprecedented heavy rain.
01 July 2024
The City of Cape Town is funding a record infrastructure investment in communities
09 May 2024
The City of Cape Town is now ready to rollout the long-awaited cheaper single-phase feed-in meter to enable many more Capetonians to sell their excess solar power to us.
03 May 2024
A total of 432 Cape Town households have applied to earn cash from selling their excess solar power to the City and the applications will be assessed for eligibility
27 March 2024
City Council budget speech 2024
13 March 2024
With the solar power boom firmly under way in Cape Town, PV system authorisations are about to get a lot easier and faster with a new online application portal.
26 February 2024
Cape Town businesses and households have already earned over R25,8m under the City’s Cash for Power programme.
12 February 2024
Cape Town has become the first city to enable residential households to earn cash for power from their solar PV generation systems.
29 November 2023
Our teams have been assisting many residents in all areas of the city with their pensioner support applications over recent months
23 November 2023
The City is here to help and urges all qualifying pensioners to take advantage of the available support the City has to offer.
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.
02 September 2023
Response to Memorandum dated 28 August 2023
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
Eskom's 18,5% increase has driven up the cost to supply electricity and is impacting households.
11 August 2023
The City encourages customers who have not received their accounts via the Post Office yet to make a payment using the previous month’s City invoice as a guide
01 August 2023
While we certainly welcome the healthy dam levels, we cannot allow this to give us a false sense of water security for the future.
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
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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