I took a group of 25 international journalists on a walking tour of the Cape Town Central City this morning. The weather was awful, a typical wet Cape winter’s day, but true to our motto – we walk, come rain or shine – we set off in good spirits. The group is…
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Cape Town Fan Walk lives on
It wasn’t as big as the World Cup Fan Walk. Or as glamorous. But last night’s PSL double header at the Cape Town Stadium showed that the Cape Town Fan Walk is here to stay.
Of the 46 000 people that attended the match at the stadium, only 6 000 used…
Cape Town’s Integrated Rapid Transit System takes shape
The City of Cape Town announced deadlines for the implementation of phase one of the Integrated Rapid Transit System (IRTS) at a meeting of the Cape Town Partnership’s Central City Partners Forum this week.
The West Coast trunk route between Bayside Shopping Centre and the CBD/ Waterfront will be up…
Whoops! Did someone perhaps jump the gun?
Sunday, 22 August. We had been waiting for about two hours at the Clyde-Pinelands sports fields, along with a good crowd of about 5 000 people, to watch the demolition of the Athlone Towers. Finally, three minutes to go. Nearly time for the big event. A stir of anticipation began…
Athlone Towers – a giant new opportunity for a different approach to city building?
When our boys were small, their name for the Athlone cooling towers was the ‘giant’s coffee cups’. Located near the N2 highway out of Cape Town, the ‘coffee cups’ usually signified the start of a holiday weekend out of town, or the end of a long tiring journey home.
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‘The Little Girl walks with her arms outstretched, dreaming she could fly…’
If you ever needed an excuse to walk on the Sea Point Promenade, now’s the time to go and see Walking the Road, an inspiring public art project by Marieke Prinsloo. I’m not going to tell you what the story is about – you must experience it yourself.
Once you’ve…
A Ripple of Hope – Reflections on Robert Kennedy’s 1966 visit to South Africa
For many years, an old LP recording of a speech by Robert Kennedy in Cape Town in 1966 lay around our family home. I never realised its significance until I saw RFK in the Land of Apartheid – A Ripple of Hope at the opening night of the…
The UDF was born in song
Steve Gordon’s moving tribute to the late Robbie Jansen in the Mail and Guardian this weekend (The last blow for freedom) reminded me just how important music was to the culture and ethos of the United Democratic Front (UDF) in Cape Town in the 1980s.
Who can forget…
The ‘unhappy compromise’ shows signs of coming of age
The Cape Town Foreshore has been described as an ‘unhappy compromise’ resulting in series of ‘wind-blown stretches of asphalt and concrete, filled with car parks and roaring traffic, inaccessible to pedestrians.’* Yet on a still winter’s morning, in the early dawn light, on foot, the Foreshore can almost be beautiful.…
‘Not soon. Not just now. Now. Because if you don’t, who will?’
One of the unexpected treats of the 2010 World Cup was having something other than political wrangling to read about on the front pages of our newspapers every day. For a whole month.
No disrespect intended, but sometimes we in South Africa get a little obsessed with what politicians are saying and doing. I…
Post 2010 paradigm shifts create opportunities for new city development
In 2008, the City of Cape Town and the Cape Town Partnership published the Central City Development Strategy – a framework to guide change and manage growth over the next ten years. We are currently reviewing and updating the strategy in light of the 2010 World Cup experience.…
Cape Town Squared (or how some of our most valuable public assets are not being properly used)
Do you remember the popular zebra artworks dotted around public spaces in Cape Town during the World Cup? Well, they’ve now migrated to the Artscape Piazza on the Foreshore.
The 33 zebras form an exhibition entitled ‘Not all is Black and White’, by the World for All…
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For sure, freeways?
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Integrated Rapid Transport in Cape Town – no other alternative
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Cape Town Station Square – unburied treasure
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Bright lights, dark alleys*
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I love it when a plan comes together
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We’re on the road to nowhere…
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Come rain or come shine… we walk the city to discover our history
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Cape Town Fan Walk lives on
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Cape Town’s Integrated Rapid Transit System takes shape
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Whoops! Did someone perhaps jump the gun?
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Rashiq Fataar: I am all for reconnecting the city to the sea but ...
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dirk: i just had the privilege of seeing and walking the...
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Comeau: Demolish and reroute them underground I say. It's ...
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Andrew: Negotiations going well for all sites needed for t...
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