Earlier this week Mayor Patricia de Lille announced at the Cape Town Press Club that plans have been finalized to complete the unfinished Foreshore bridge, which will connect it to the N1 highway, 40 years after the completion of the bridge ground to a halt. Continue reading →
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Camps Bay Drive roadworks completion delayed by more than two months!
The City of Cape Town has announced that the Camps Bay Drive roadworks will be completed at the end of November, two months later than the promised completion date, and announced more than two weeks after the work was meant to have been completed!
Instead of communicating with Camps Bay residents (and those from Hout Bay, being Continue reading →
WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 25 June
Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines
* AirBnB is increasing in popularity, and becoming a greater threat to hotels, especially as it is accepting hotel room listings at its attractive 3% commission compared to the norm of 15-25%, and because the guests are verified, reports MarketWatch!
* Reports speculate that the Formula One could be held in Cape Town Continue reading →
World Design Capital 2014: overpayment by City of Cape Town?
The Cape Argus has reported that the City of Cape Town may have overpaid more than R300000 on Cape Town hosting World Design Capital 2014 to International Council of Societies of Industrial Design, the organisation which coordinates and awards the biennial World Design Capital host cities.
The cost to the City of Cape Town and its ratepayers for the honour of having been elected as World Design Capital 2014 was R1,5 million, payable in three instalments of €150000 each. Despite an agreement by the City to get forward cover on the Rand/Euro exchange rate, this was not done, and the declining Rand relative to the Euro meant Continue reading →