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21 May 2026
Cape Town has in excess of 600 scrap dealers and bucket shops
09 April 2026
The City’s streetlight and high mast repair and maintenance interventions form part of our broader strategy to improve service delivery and to protect our essential infrastructure in high risk areas
15 March 2026
The City continues to be plagued by ongoing electrical infrastructure theft and vandalism.
28 June 2025
Statement by the Mayoral Committee Member for Safety and Security, Alderman JP Smith
05 February 2025
On 20 October 2024, two suspects were arrested in Belhar while digging up cables
15 September 2024
Metal confiscations weighed in at 1 839,41 kilograms, while the amount of confiscated cable clocked 54 kilometres.
27 May 2024
City policing operations recovered over 1 700 kilograms of stolen metal in nine months between July 2023 and March 2024, including over 53 000 metres of stolen cabling.
10 May 2024
The City of Cape Town is repairing and replacing stolen cables and vandalised street lights at record pace, with 1 120 street lights cable replacements in April 2024 alone.
28 January 2024
Staff conducted 404 autonomous operations, 1 260 scrapyard inspections, 1 777 hotspot patrols, and responded to 277 complaints from the public.
17 September 2023
The unit increased its hotspot patrols by 42%, recorded a 23% increase in notices issued to scrapyards and issued 3 253 fines for various by-law transgressions.
06 March 2023
'The theft of cables and other critical infrastructure is simply not letting up.
10 November 2022
The unit has already confiscated 2 489kg of mixed copper and 252,5m of cable this year.
12 October 2022
Today we are conducting a truly massive anti-crime operation in Marikana informal settlement and surrounds
30 June 2022
‘The City of Cape Town is keen to help revive the Prasa Rail Enforcement Unit (REU)
24 May 2022
The City has seen a downward trend in vandalism, theft and illegal connections incidents in some districts of the city.
12 March 2022
The City’s Metal Theft Unit continues to see an increase in the number of arrests, and confiscations related to the theft and vandalism of critical infrastructure
06 September 2021
Earlier today, members of the Law Enforcement Metal Theft Unit conducted an inspection on random vehicles conveying scrap to a scrap metal dealer in Wetton
20 May 2021
The unit’s dogged determination has seen it being targeted on successive days.
27 August 2020
The unit also recovered over 2 000 meters of stolen copper and aluminium cables. The Memorandum of Agreement between the City, PRASA, and the Western Cape Government came to an end on 30 June 2020.
13 February 2020
Apart from being deployed on rail lines to assist with crime prevention, the Law Enforcement Officers are also supporting the South African Police Service
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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