Experienced gardener Temba Cimilanga (54), originally from the Eastern Cape, is leading a team of six on a search-and-rescue mission to collect plants from the banks of the Lourens River as part of the City’s flood-alleviation project.
A relatively poor turnout of just over 40 residents attended the City of Cape Town’s stakeholder engagement session for Subcouncil 8, which was held at the Strand Town Hall last Wednesday (15 November).
Residents of Greenacres Village in Bridgewater who live on the brink of the Lourens River are fed up with crime in the area and are demanding that a fence be erected to stop criminals from breaking into their properties.
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A kerfuffle played out in Helderberg Estate last Thursday (14 September) when residents forcibly stopped City workers from removing trees at Harewood Park, citing lack of communication regarding tree removals and proposing other solutions and more pr