The WHO has launched a WhatsApp chatbot to provide people with info about the coronavirus. It’s one of a number of steps Facebook is taking to try and direct users to reliable information about the pandemic. WhatsApp has previously struggled with the spread of misinformation on its encrypted platform. The World Health Organisation has launched…
Open Streets – The CAPE TOWN TOGETHER platform can help communities deal with coronavirus disease…
These are trying times and we hope you are all staying safe (at home, if you can). As Open Streets Cape Town we have been thinking about how we can contribute towards the wellbeing of our fellow Cape Town residents and our broader movement. We believe strongly that SOCIAL DISTANCING should mean PHYSICAL DISTANCING and SOCIAL SOLIDARITY. This might just…
AVAAZ – The World in Action
Thanks so much for stepping up to meet the challenge of this virus with viral kindness! If you missed the next steps and instructions on how to start or join a ‘Viral Kindness’ Facebook group in your local community, here they are again: https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/covid_19_viral_kindness_dis/thanks.htm If you’ve already created a Facebook group to connect your local…
City starts soap donation drive
CITY OF CAPE TOWN 20 MARCH 2020 MEDIA RELEASE The drive is one of the latest measures implemented to help mitigate the spread and impact of COVID-19. Read more below: The City of Cape Town’s Disaster Risk Management Centre is facilitating a soap donation drive, in support of hygiene efforts around the Coronavirus. …
Social Issues – Join the OCA in Peace building this 2020
When: TBC Where: St Michael’s Church Hall, corner Bedford & St Michael’s Road, Observatory You are invited to join the Observatory Civic Associations one-day workshop partnering with organizations and active citizens in and around the neighborhood with a mission to make the world a better place. Along with representatives from these organizations we will strive…
Arts, Culture & Sports – Calling all artists, historians interested in the Observatory.
Observatory World Heritage History Project Placing Observatory as a nexus of mankind, this project anchored by Observatory Civic Association’s Arts, Culture and Sports Portfolio aims to bring about awareness of the historical significance Observatory as a precinct has in relation to South Africa, the African continent and the World. From the First Freeburgher Farms established…
Residents warned of potential scammers posing as COVID-19 health practitioners
CITY OF CAPE TOWN 16 MARCH 2020 MEDIA RELEASE The City has received reports of criminals approaching residents at their homes pretending to offer medical service and claiming to be doing home testing for COVID-19. The City would like to warn residents that no members of staff are assigned to perform door-to-door testing. For…
Community consciousness around the Corona Virus
Dear Residents, As we respond to this Coronavirus crisis as announced on Sunday by our President, it is our duty as a civic to assist in maximizing consciousness of the situation while minimizing fear. We call on our community for a human-centered approach that will diminish fear and not tolerate alarmist, racist, and xenophobic reactions. We…
Feedback from the OCA Chair on the Tribunal hearing of the River Club
The Ministerial Appeal Tribunal met on Friday 13th March to consider an appeal by the River Club developer, the City of Cape Town and two provincial government departments (Transport and Public Works; Environmental Affairs and Development Planning) against Heritage Western Cape’s Provisional Protection Order on the River Club. The order was issued in April 2018…
Precies waar ooit de landroof begon, wil Kaapstad nu bouwen
De River Club ligt op gewilde grond in Kaapstad. Maar het plan om er appartementen te bouwen, is omstreden. Dit is de eerste grond die Nederlanders in 1657 van de inheemse bevolking afpakten. Niels Posthumus 10 maart 2020, 9:51 Tauriq Jenkins (39) noemt het ‘de eindstrijd’ van een conflict dat 363 jaar geleden met de…