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The City of Cape Town draft Budget 2018-2019 comment period is open

The City of Cape Town draft Budget 2018-2019 comment period is open Dear Cape Town residents and businesses The draft Budget 2018-2019 is available for comment until 16:30 on Friday, 4 May 2018. A budget of R 49.1 billion will be spent in the metropolitan area to ensure that services are maintained, improved and expanded, […]

Shelter Plays a Role in SWCID

Homeless persons who find refuge at the Somerset West Night Shelter, are given the opportunity to earn their board and lodgings by being employed to assist the SWCID teams, especially with cleaning tasks. The prerequisite is that they should be clean in terms of drug and alcohol consumption.    The services of the shelter, its staff and […]

Cleaning operations in full swing

The cleaning team of the SWCID has a host of tasks and challenges to contend with daily.  Accompanying photos show the various activities that they engage in, which include the following:  mowing of grass;  maintenance work on poles;  removal of stones that are lying around – in order to prevent criminally minded people  from using them to break windows […]

Urban Management Trolley Introduced

The Geocentric Urban Management Trolley Project was initiated in 2017.  The aim of the project is to provide urban cleaning and maintenance teams with a platform to improve their daily tasks, assist with moving of equipment and tools and enable recycling while performing their tasks.  A few design considerations were introduced into the design of […]

Safety and Security enjoy Priority in SWCID

In collaboration with the CCT ’ In collaboration with the CCT’s Law Enforcement Officer assigned to the SWCID, Secure Rite as service provider to the SWCID conducts a variety of operations aimed at preventing contraventions and addressing a variety of safety and security issues in the area.  Some of the activities include the following:  Safeguarding […]

Geocentric Launches New App

“As Geocentric we are very proud to launch our new mobile phone reporting application,” said Gene Lohrentz of the urban management company recently. “This is another way in which we are enabling our CID business and property owners to interact with their City Improvement District Management.    “We want our CID contributors to become part of our family by […]

Annual General Meeting 2017

Please follow the links below to download the relevant documentation Agenda and Notice to members CoR 36.2 2017 Nomination as Director form Proxy form Implementation Plan Budget 2018-19 Surplus Utilisation  Audited AFS (full set) Membership List Minutes of previous AGM (2016) APPLICATION FOR ADMISSION OF MEMBERSHIP – COMPANY APPLICATION FOR ADMISSION OF MEMBERSHIP – PRIVATE INDIVIDUAL Clippings […]

Cape Town Mayor outlines status quo of water crisis

During a recent speech delivered at the Atlantis Aquifer, Cape Town Mayor Patricia de Lille thanked Capetonians who had been making efforts to cut their water usage, saying that about half of water users had restricted their daily usage to 87 litres per day. But added that this was not enough. “We need each and […]

Partnership can benefit night shelter and SWCID

The night shelter in Somerset West, which has existed at the same address on Church Street for 30 years according to social worker Nicolene Andries, has in the past five years taken significant strides towards becoming better known to the community as well as more effective in its mission. This can partly be ascribed to […]