Please note that the Mancomm meeting has been postponed to: Date: Tuesday 9th September 2025 Time: 18h00 Venue: Observatory Community Centre (room 1)
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Obs Development Tracker
This map shows the status of all the development applications submitted to the OCA’s Architecture and Heritage Committee in 2025. You can use this map to track the status of development applications and as a record of the developments that the OCA has supported or objected to. We hope that this map will give the…
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INVITATION : Lower Salt River Catchment Management Forum
When: Thu Oct 23, 2025 17:00 – 18:30 (SAST) Where: 11th Floor Council Chambers, 44 Whale Street Who: The guest list is not available MEETING LINK
Check out Friends of Valkenburg’s newly renovated coffee shop!
From an Obs local via WhatsApp: I just thought it was worth doing a shout out for Friends of Valkenburg trust as I just dropped off our work collection for them. Their NEWLY renovated coffee shop has top tier coffee and the patients are upskilled to become baristas – plus the best thrift shop deals…
Support Friends of the Liesbeek through MySchool card!
Woolworths has a new loyalty programme which means that the causes you chose under MySchool will no longer be supported unless you select your cause on their App within the next 30 days. The MySchool MyVillage MyPlanet programme and WRewards has changed to a new loyalty programme called MyDifference. If you still want a portion…
How Women Walk at Midnight aims to ‘challenge the culture of normalised violence against women’
By Tasleem Gierdien, 19 August 2025 Women Walk at Midnight is exactly that — women from communities around the world coming together to walk at midnight, united by a shared purpose and vision to reclaim safety and joy in public spaces. In South Africa, these walks represent both an act of defiance and a glimpse…
City of Cape Town spends nearly R400 MILLION annually cleaning up waste dumped illegally
An image of illegal dumping in Cape Town. Picture: X/CityofCT By Celeste Martin, 26 August 2025 The City states that despite increased enforcement, including 20,000 fines issued in the past year, the illegal dumping problem persists. John Maytham (standing in for Cape Talk’s Lester Kiewit) chats to the City of Cape Town’s Mayoral Committee Member…
Health fears mount at UN treaty talks: ‘Plastics are everywhere. We can’t protect ourselves’
Photo: Unsplash/engin akyurt By Celeste Martin, 06 August 2025 Environmental experts warn that without bold action; plastic pollution will spiral out of control. 702 and CapeTalk’s Africa Melane speaks to GroundWork campaigner Rico Euripidou, who is in attendance at the INC-5.2 conference in Geneva… READ MORE