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Good day All Please find attached Wish list notice and template for your information and compliance. The Subcouncil has commenced with the public consultation process for input into the Ward Allocation Budget for Financial year 2025/26. We would like to invite your organisation to submit proposals in compliance with the requirements specified in the attached Wish list notice. The…

In October 2022, OBSID approached Local South and requested a proposal to increase pedestrianisation of Lower Main Road and to improve mobility in the precinct more broadly. Open Obs! was conceptualised to explore how Lower Main Road could become a more pedestrian-friendly, safer and inviting space for businesses, residents and visitors. The original proposal included…

It is not so much a lawn as a moonscape: pitted craters dug by bandicoots, exhausted tufts of withered yellow grass plucked by wallabies and pitiful plants shrivelled brown under the Australian sunshine. But Kathleen Murray is the proud winner of the first World’s Ugliest Lawn competition after the Swedish contest to encourage water-saving, environmentally-friendly gardening went…

The Conversation – 19 January 2024 In 1950, as part of the Group Areas Act, South Africa’s apartheid government banished people of colour to outlying areas, away from central business districts. The Cape Flats are one such area, sprawling to the east of central Cape Town, writes Tinashe P. Kanosvamhira, University of Cape Town. Today…

Oxfam – 15 Jan 2024 Africa’s richest 1 percent own nearly half of the continent’s total financial wealth. A tax of up to 5 percent on Africa’s super-rich could generate an annual amount of $11.9 billion, nearly enough to pay for the 2023 humanitarian requirements for Eastern and Southern Africa Oxfam urges a new era…

When: 26th December 2023 (boxing day) Where: Malta Park If you can remember it was the smaller event that took place before the New Year’s Eve festival called Secrets of Summer. Our event is more lifestyle orientated with emphasis placed on our vendors and that allows us to create a more market lifestyle event paired…

🔔 School is out! It’s the holidays!! 🎉In the festive spirit, we invite you to visit the Cape Town Science Centre for our Fun Festival of Science holiday programme, running from 14 December 2023 – 16 January 2024. Prepare to be captivated by an array of exhilarating workshops and spellbinding demonstrations, curated to ignite a…

HELP CO-CREATE OBSERVATORY – MAKE YOUR VOICE COUNT OBSID is seeking resident input into our Open Obs! Project. You can vote online and find out more at https://www.flui.city/capetown/posts/65993-improving-the-urban-environment-of-lower-main-road-observatory WHAT IS OPEN OBS! OBSID – through Open Obs! Is exploring how Lower Main Rd can become a more pedestrian-friendly, safer and inviting space for businesses, residents and…

Friends of the Liesbeek was asked recently why Lower Obs hadn’t flooded this year despite the heavy rains. For those of you who don’t know, this is in large part due to the work of the Friends of the Liesbeek. Here is an amazing video about the work that they did (and continue to do)…

We appreciate your support. Volunteers welcome any weekend and donations especially over the festive season as student volunteers away. We still need help with donations of supplies of the following: sugar bread (need extra 20 loaves weekly) smooth peanut butter and apricot jam cinnamon salt mayo sanitizer disposable bowls and spoons sandwich bags Contact Mutoni…