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| November 22, 2024

Food safety - Online tool available for Certificates of Acceptability

The City’s Environmental Health Service has received at least one thousand applications for Certificates of Acceptability (COA) this week.

| November 21, 2024

Good Hope Centre to get new life

The City of Cape Town has unveiled ambitious plans to rejuvenate the iconic Good Hope Centre, with a focus on preserving its historical value while transforming it into a vibrant mixed-use hub. This initiative aims to blend heritage conservation with urban development, aligning with the city’s broader goals of economic growth and community revitalization.

| November 12, 2024

Cape Town's Property Developers Forum: Strengthening Collaboration for Urban Growth

Cape Town’s Spatial Planning and Environment (SPE) directorate hosted the second Property Developers Forum on 11 November 2024. This event, building on its June debut, reflects the city's commitment to improving engagement with the property development sector and enhancing the business climate at a municipal level.

| November 7, 2024

Jobs Connect boosts Cape Town’s SMMEs

The City’s Mayoral Committee Member for Economic Growth, Alderman James Vos, has spent time engaging with businesses that have benefited from Jobs Connect, gaining insights into how the programme is helping them find the right skills to grow and succeed. Jobs Connect, Cape Town’s leading workforce development programme, continues to be a game-changer – not only for job seekers, but also for the city’s small, medium and micro-enterprises (SMMEs).

| October 25, 2024

City’s informal trading infrastructure projects gather pace

The City’s Economic Growth Directorate is investing in developing and revitalising markets and other informal trade infrastructure in various areas to help boost business for informal traders and grow the local economy. Recently Mayoral Committee Member for Economic Growth, Alderman James Vos, visited the Wallacedene Gateway Market where major upgrades are under way.

| October 2, 2024

Air France Reintroduces Seasonal Direct Flights Between Paris And Cape Town Starting 7 October 2024

Air France is proud to announce the return of its seasonal flight service between Cape Town International Airport (CPT) and Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG) starting from 7 October 2024. In response to strong demand from both business and leisure travellers, the airline will operate three weekly flights, with an additional flight scheduled to be added from November, just in time for the busy holiday season. This service underscores Air France's continued commitment to connecting South Africa with Europe and the rest of the world.

| October 2, 2024

Big growth opportunity for Capetonian clothing and textile SMEs with City-funded Origin8 programme

The City of Cape Town is calling on Cape Town-based small and medium-sized enterprises in the clothing, textile, footwear, and leather (CTFL) sector to apply now to participate in ‘Origin8: From Start-up to Scale-up’, a programme designed and administered by the Cape Clothing and Textile Cluster (CCTC) and funded by the City.

| September 10, 2024

Shoprite, Checkers and Usave ensures continued access to Money Transfer services to Lesotho and Eswatini amid new EFT regulations

Customers can continue to send money to Lesotho and Eswatini from all Shoprite, Checkers and Usave stores nationwide, even after the new regulations come into effect on 9 September 2024 which will impact electronic funds transfer (EFT) payments within the Common Monetary Area (CMA).

| September 8, 2024

8 reasons why your business may get hacked

No matter how big or small, any business can be a target for cyber attackers. While some business owners think they're too small to be noticed, the numbers tell a different story. In 2023 alone, over 343 million people fell victim to cybercrimes, and it doesn't look like it's slowing down.