The Cape Town Central City Improvement District (CCID) has launched an SMS donation service as part of its GIVE RESPONSIBLY campaign in an effort to help break the cycle of homelessness on the CBD’s streets.

With all the preparations done, event organisers are now counting down the days to what has been dubbed Africa’s grandest gathering, the 2012 Cape Town International Jazz Festival. Cape Town is set to offer festivalgoers a city getaway experience they will never forget.

The Company’s Garden, the oldest garden in South Africa and arguably one of the country’s top tourist attractions, is now under enhanced security.

A view of the Cape Town CBD’s skyline will show at least 10 towering cranes at work on various new developments. In spite of a sluggish global economy, business confidence is higher than ever with an estimated over R3 billion currently being invested in the CBD through these developments.

The greening of 14 Loop St, a recently refurbished 1904 building in Cape Town’s CBD, is paying both commercial and environmental dividends for the owners, the tenants and the City.

As the world gears up for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio+20 Summit in Brazil, the CCID is urging CBD businesses to use World Environment Day as an opportunity to get involved in the green economy and actively participate in adopting sustainable ways of conducting business.

The Cape Town Central City Improvement District (CCID) has appointed Gary Fisher, head of public works in the Western Cape Government, and Grant Elliott, regional manager for Redefine Properties in the Western Cape, as board members.

Investments into commercial property developments and refurbishments continue to rise in the Central City of Cape Town.

For more than 60 years, Archbishop Emeritus Tutu and his wife, Leah, have campaigned tirelessly to advance the cause of human rights, justice, reconciliation and the values enshrined in the Constitution.

Today the Cape Town Central City Improvement District (CCID) launched the first edition of The State of Cape Town Central City Report.