The Cape Town Stadium has been completed on schedule.  The total cost was R4.5 billion.

Concept designers were GMP Architekten from Germany, while detail design was done by Louis Karol and Associates and Point Architects. The main building contractors were Murray and Roberts and WBHO, two of South Africa’s largest construction companies.

To take a tour of the Cape Town Stadium visitors are encouraged to make a booking by calling Tharwat Ismail on 021-4307346 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Green Point was host to the greatest sporting event in the world, the 2010 Soccer World Cup.

On match days, thousands of people walked from the city centre to the stadium, dressed in the colours of the countries they supported, waving flags and blowing vuvuzelas.  Restaurants were crowded where supporters viewed the game on large screens.  The festivities continued late into the night.

A big thanks to SAPS and the Cleansing Department for a safe and clean enviroment and to all Capetonians and visitors for contributing to a wonderful and successful tournament.

Join in and contribute to the Gallery with photographs you have taken of the events or post comments to the Guest Book.

Recycling along the Atlantic Seaboard

For several years Cllr Smith has been trying to get recycling projects going along the Atlantic Seaboard. While there were several privately run initiatives, the City was not formally driving a process until a pilot Waste Minimisation project was formally launched in 2006. Cllr Smith even went so far as to canvass five blocks of flats in Green Point himself to get the pilot study started.

The City of Cape Town is committed to sustainable waste management, including investing in and developing sustainable recycling strategies. To this end, the City has developed a recycling program known as Think Twice. Think Twice is the core message underpinning the City’s recycling service and is the brand that is linked to the free door-to-door voluntary recycling project being rolled out in the Atlantic Seaboard area that is aimed at reducing waste to landfill.

Approximately 6000 tons of waste is dumped in Cape Town every day, rapidly filling up the already limited landfill space that remains. The Think Twice programme is the City’s response to this growing problem whereby residents and businesses will be encouraged to implement a two bag system for their solid waste. People are being asked to think twice about how they dispose of their waste, and instead of simply dumping it all together in one black bag, to separate the recyclable material from the non-recyclable waste within their homes and places of work so that with only a little effort from everyone we can create a more sustainable system of waste disposal that will reduce both energy usage and greenhouse gasses.

In the case of suburbs along the Atlantic Seaboard and other parts of the City, many homeless persons or street people also make a living engaging in informal recycling, removing recyclable material from the bins that residents put outside for the City Solid Waste Department to empty on the refuse collection day. While the positive impact on recycling and the entrepreneurial activities by street people to sustain themselves is admirable, this informal recycling practice has some serious unintended consequences.

The City engages in various strategies to assist homeless people or street people to reintegrate with their families or communities and a number of projects are funded by the City for this purpose, including outreach workers, sheltered employment, job placement, skills training, emergency accommodation, shelter and second phase accommodation as well as alcohol rehabilitation and psychiatric services.

Over time we have realised that the informal recycling practices had the effect of making street people resistant to attempts to assist them in rebuilding a life off the streets, mainly due to the fact that the unstructured access to income lead to ongoing substance abuse problems, mainly with alcohol. It is therefore preferable for residents and complexes in the area to participate in the Think Twice formal recycling project, which can ensure that jobs that are created can be channelled to street people that have committed to reintegration and that the recycling industry incentivises people off the street and not disincentivises people still on the street.

Over the past 18 months the City has been running a pilot project in the Sea Point area collecting recyclables from 100 complexes. In line with the Integrated Waste Management Policy (IWMP), implementation of the Think Twice programme and planning for the 2010 World Cup Soccer event, the City has now expanded the pilot project to include complexes, businesses, etc. in the greater Sea Point, Green Point, Mouille Point and Three Anchor Bay areas.

Mandla Recycling has been appointed by the City as the contractor to roll out Think Twice in the Green Point, Mouille Point and Three Anchor Bay Area servicing residential and non residential properties from 1 October 2008.
They can be contacted on directly on
Tel. 021-409 1266

New Road for Green Point

The construction of the Granger Bay Boulevard between Main Road and Beach Road is now open.

The entire traffic circle at the intersection with Western Boulevard has been reconstructed to facilitate pedestrian access to and from the adjacent new stadium.

“Although this project has long been part of the City’s Transport Plan, its implementation has been expedited by the advent of the FIFA 2010 World Cup tournament,” says the City’s Director: Roads and Stormwater, Henry du Plessis.
“It is just one more example of how the tournament is providing a catalyst for accelerated development that will, in general, benefit Capetonians as a whole but, in this specific instance, the residents of Green Point and Sea Point in particular."