Please consider removing any Box elder (Acer negundo) from your property this winter. These are highly susceptible to PSHB and will die within one year of infestation, this results in a mass of beetles attacking everything around it. The Southern Suburbs are a hot spot for PSHB and there have been confirmed PSHB infestations in…
Mancomm meeting
Reminder that our next Mancomm meeting will be held on Tuesday 30 January 2024 at the Observatory Community Centre at 18:00. Zoom invitations are available on request to [email protected] See draft agenda here Mancomm meeting Date: Tue 30 January 2024 Time: 18h00 Venue: Observatory Community Centre (room 1) or via Zoom (upon request) To attend our…
WARD ALLOCATIONS – CALL FOR PROPOSALS
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…
Improving the Urban Environment of Lower Main Road, Observatory
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…
Tasmanian garden wins prize for world’s ugliest lawn
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…
Healthy food is hard to come by in Cape Town’s poorer areas: how community gardens can fix that
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…
Seven richest Africans have more wealth than the poorest half of the continent’s population
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…
Its A Groove Lifetsyle Event – 26 December
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…
Cape Town Science Centre Holiday Programme
🔔 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…
Improving the Urban Environment of Lower Main Road, Observatory
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…