By Gavin, on March 15th, 2021  The developers of the River Club are planning to build a huge mixed use development on the land at the confluence of the Black and Liesbeek Rivers.
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By Gavin, on September 13th, 2018  We have learnt to adapt to the restrictions but to be penalised for saving water is unacceptable. It is unfortunate that the taxpayer has no recourse and the city government knows this and therefore abuses its authority
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By Gavin, on August 20th, 2018  City of Cape Town is laughing all the way to the bank, as its punitive water tariffs continue to swell City coffers It raked in close to R1 billion in the last financial year and now a further R210 million for water and R42m for sanitation has been over-recovered in July alone.
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By WebWolly, on August 17th, 2018 The above-inflation increases add to residents’ economic woes. The insensitive increases indicate that the City has not taken into account the affordability of its rates and levies.
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By Gavin, on February 1st, 2018  Bearing in mind that this level of consumer, using between 1kl and 6kl per month are at the very heart of the water saving efforts, it is absolutely shocking that these water saving champions have been targeted for punitive tariff increases in the region of 500%, far more than any other consumptive level.
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By Gavin, on January 2nd, 2018  City of Cape Town, in its proposals for a drought levy, called for community inputs between 5th December 2017 and 12 January 2018. They have also called for comment on a proposed Draft Water Amendment By-law between 12 December 2017 and 8th January 2018.
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By Gavin, on December 7th, 2017  It is with absolute dismay that the GCTCA noted the announcement that the City of Cape Town levy property owners with a drought charge to fund income shortfall as a result of water saving.
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By Gavin, on July 18th, 2017  There are a number of projects underway, but it’s not yet clear if it’s enough. For a city that relies on historically wet winters, these figures are daunting. What is more, the future looks drier.
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By Gavin, on December 11th, 2016 For generations to come, up to 70 percent of the vegetable supply of Capetonians will have to be imported from outside the province.
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By Gavin, on December 5th, 2016  Every day, the famous Camps Bay region in Cape Town, South Africa, is discharging million of litres of untreated waste-water into our marine reserve. This is creating some serious and growing problems, for the vulnerable sea-life, for us water-users and soon for beach-goers too.
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By WebWolly, on June 21st, 2016 It has been over a year since the City of Cape Town asked for comments from the public as part of the public participation process during its permit application to be allowed to continue discharging untreated effluent into our coastal waters and MPA’s. We have had no feedback or answers to our queries and objections, nor have we been advised as to whether or not the permit was granted and if so under what conditions.
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By WebWolly, on May 2nd, 2016  The GCTCA sincerely hopes that sanity will prevail and that political and housing development greed will not be the victor at the extreme loss of food security and very scarce water supplies, as well as jobs.
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By WebWolly, on April 17th, 2016  The Philippi farming community gives the Cape 200 000 tonnes of vegetables and flowers every year. Only 20 kilometres from the centre of town, Philippi has been Cape Town’s bread basket for nearly 2000 years. Carte Blanche asks: why are the city’s own town planners threatening its survival during one of the most devastating droughts this country has ever seen?
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By WebWolly, on April 7th, 2016  They called for an “urgent investigation” into the “irrational and unconstitutional” actions of Environmental, Planning and Development MEC Anton Bredell and mayor Patricia de Lille threatening the PHA, which is a critical food security resource.
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By Gavin, on April 6th, 2016  “Good agricultural land on the urban edge and elsewhere is rapidly being consumed by urban development, and valuable biodiversity resources and areas of scenic and amenity value are being threatened.”
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By WebWolly, on December 7th, 2015 Aerial photographs of the oceans around the Southern tip of the continent went viral earlier this year causing outrage. The images showed that the City of Cape Town was pumping 55 million litres of untreated sewage into Table Bay every day. New scientific analysis now reveals that 87 000 carcinogenic, hormone disrupting chemicals could be seeping from the sewage mass into the oceans. Yet, the city is without any immediate solutions. Carte Blanche investigates the far-reaching impact of the filth.
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