The City of Cape Town’s Mayoral Committee Member: Transport for Cape Town, Councillor Brett Herron, today conducted a site visit in the Cape Town Central City where construction teams are building bump-outs at busy intersections to improve pedestrian safety and universal access for road users with special needs.

In a country where there’s desperate poverty all around, it’s all too easy to slip into a state of “charity fatigue” when iPad activism based on social media outrage is as close as most people ever get to making a difference.

When most people dream about tying the knot in the Western Cape, thoughts invariably drift to two things: nuptials in a quaint chapel among the vines on a wine farm, or saying “I do” on Robben Island on Valentine’s Day.

There is no easy fix to help the homeless on the streets of our CBDs. As we approach International Homeless Day on 10 October, we speak to Pat Eddy, Social Development Manager at the Cape Town Central City Improvement District in regard to the complexities.

When it comes to your personal safety in a busy urban area, a little knowledge goes a long way. So says the Cape Town Central City Improvement District (CCID), an organisation with 15 years’ experience in securing the Cape Town CBD.

Much has been written in the media over the past year about the success of the Cape Town CBD, according to Rob Kane, chairperson of the Cape Town Central City Improvement District (CCID). “So much so,” says Kane, “that we’re being touted as an ‘overnight success story’.”

Touchstone House has topped out at 15 floors above Bree Street, according to Craig Armstrong, regional director of developer FWJK. Completion by the contractors, Stabilid, will follow in October 2015.

Along with the usual sectional title residential living that has blossomed in apartment blocks in the Cape Town CBD over the past two years, another type of residential is fast becoming a favourite lifestyle choice.

With the recent steep update of residential units in the Cape Town CBD, the question now is how to meet the demand for new units while meeting the pockets of the new urban dwellers.

Retail business in the Cape Town CBD is reporting a steady stabilisation in terms of confidence and economic performances, with the rates of those reporting declines in activity dropping.