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    City invites residents to PSHB community webinar

    City invites residents to PSHB community webinar

    18 June 2026

    The PSHB continues to pose a serious threat to Cape Town's urban forest and biodiversity

    Food for thought this festive period

    Food for thought this festive period

    29 December 2025

    ​The festive season sees more celebrations and more food on our tables, which also means more food going to waste

    Environmental Health rats out rodents

    Environmental Health rats out rodents

    13 May 2025

    In the nine months between July 2024 and March 2025, the City's Environmental Health Practitioners serviced 44 121 block baiting stations.

    City Health ramps up block-baiting

    City Health ramps up block-baiting

    11 November 2024

    ​Environmental Health Practitioners service, on average, 85 000 block-baiting stations in public spaces and informal areas across the metropole annually.

    ‘Pollution busters’ clamp down on illegal sewer to stormwater connections

    ‘Pollution busters’ clamp down on illegal sewer to stormwater connections

    28 October 2024

    ​The City’s Water Pollution Control unit continues to inspect properties across the city to ensure they do not have illegal sewer to stormwater connections.

    R12m budgeted for Langa public housing maintenance projects

    R12m budgeted for Langa public housing maintenance projects

    05 September 2023

    Mayoral Committee Member for Human Settlements Councillor Carl Pophaim received a memorandum from a protesting group this morning,

    Invasive Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer beetle spotted in Newlands

    Invasive Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer beetle spotted in Newlands

    25 January 2023

    ​The City of Cape Town wants to inform residents that a tree infested with the invasive Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer beetle (PSHB) was discovered on a private property in Newlands yesterday afternoon

    City’s CRU enhanced cleansing programme commences

    City’s CRU enhanced cleansing programme commences

    25 November 2022

    The City is committed to its ongoing maintenance, enhanced cleaning and pest control projects at its rental housing.

    Environmental Health ramps up rodent baiting

    Environmental Health ramps up rodent baiting

    15 March 2022

    ​The City’s Environmental Health Service services thousands of baiting points across the metropole each year, focusing on public spaces and informal residential areas

    City tackling invasive alien wasps across Cape Town

    City tackling invasive alien wasps across Cape Town

    01 March 2022

    The City’s Invasive Species Unit has four operational teams to assist with the removal of the wasps across Cape Town

    Construction of new Prince George Drive drop-off facility 80% complete

    Construction of new Prince George Drive drop-off facility 80% complete

    03 December 2021

    Today, Councillor Zahid Badroodien, the City’s Mayoral Committee Member for Water and Waste, visited the construction site of the new Prince George Drive Drop-off facility.

    Urban farmers- on your marks, get set, plant

    Urban farmers- on your marks, get set, plant

    16 July 2021

    ​With the rampant unemployment and hunger that persist in our communities as a result of various lockdown levels due to Covid-19, the Urban Management Directorate went back to the drawing board to revise its initial Urban Agriculture Training Programme

    Pockets of hostility jeopardising Covid-19 oversight efforts

    Pockets of hostility jeopardising Covid-19 oversight efforts

    16 March 2021

    ​The threats, levelled against Environmental Health Practitioners in some areas, are bedevilling efforts to ensure continued Covid-19 compliance.

    Tree mapping to increase City’s cover

    Tree mapping to increase City’s cover

    19 August 2020

    An important component of managing the Urban Forest is a tree inventory

    R30,7 million for enhanced COVID-19 cleansing in rental flats, hostels

    R30,7 million for enhanced COVID-19 cleansing in rental flats, hostels

    04 June 2020

    The City of Cape Town’s Council approved an amount of R30,7 million to commence with enhanced COVID-19 cleansing at public housing complexes, such as priority Council rental units and hostels across the metro

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