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The next chapter in the CCID story I write this letter in the midst of an offi ce move. Computers are CITYVIEWS being packed up, boxes fi lled with old fi les, and stationery carefully City Views is a free community paper published by the catalogued in preparation for transportation to , Cape Town Central City the CCID’s new home. Improvement District. It is our vision to ensure that our CBD y the time you read place all of our own. We leave to ensure the Central City grows is Safe, Clean, Caring and Open this, we’ll be settled behind at The Terraces in Bree from strength to strength. Tasso Evangelinos for Business for all who use it, into our new offi ces Street some wonderful times, It’s kind of appropriate that whether they live, work or play on the 13th fl oor of people and memories. I, for one, our CCID move takes place in Finally, though I’m more of a here, or are passing through. B1 Thibault Square, the famous have seen the staff complement the month that also celebrates whisky man, I’d like to raise a Published by modernist skyscraper on the grow from a combined six in a time in which our country saw glass to the amazing work being The Cape Town corner of and our early days (with the Cape new beginnings. Democracy done at Winery at Central City Improvement District Hans Strijdom Avenue. CCID Town Partnership then still the in turns 21 on Heritage Square. We sample its www.capetownccid.org communications manager CCID’s managing agent) to 19 at 27 April, and so in this issue, we delights on page 5 and take a 021 286 0830 Carola Koblitz unpacks the the CCID alone. The Cape Town dedicate space to celebrating look at some of the other unique Contributors Content: Brent Smith, Carola Koblitz history behind our new Partnership can still be found freedom in the Central City and products being made right here Photography: Scott Arendse premises on page 4. at 34 Bree Street and we’ve acknowledging the milestones in the CBD. It’s a bumper issue Carola Koblitz, Caitlin Bracken, Ed Suter It’s an exciting time, and realised we can wave to our that can be found across the and I hope you enjoy! Paul Lotter, Mmiselo Ntsime Jo-Anne Smetherham, Brent Smith somehow we feel like young friends there from our windows. CBD in recognition both of our Contact adults who are now setting out And, of course, we’ll continue to own South African path and Tasso Evangelinos Editor: Brent Smith for the fi rst time to live in a work together whenever we can those of others. COO of the CCID [email protected] Managing editor: Aziza Patandin [email protected] Design: Karmen van Rensburg for www.infestation.co.za 021 461 8601 What have we done for you lately? uRBAN MANAgEMENT

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The CCID’s The CCID’s latest annual investment iconic new HQ review launches If you’re familiar with the Cape Town CBD, then chances are you’ll The State of the Cape Town Central City know the tall building at 1 Thibault Square, which has just become the Report: 2014 – A year in review refl ects CCID’s home. Our communications manager, Carola Koblitz, takes a an international trend that is seeing walk through the building’s past and into the new offi ces on the (lucky) both businesses and people return to 13th fl oor. traditional downtowns. A new publication released by the CCID dovetails with global research recently published by the UK esigned by the government’s Foresight Future of Cities Project in 1 Thibault Square stands late, renowned tall in the Central City’s its report titled The Business of Cities. The UK report South African burgeoning fi nancial district. notes that businesses are attracted to the pool of architect possible employees and residents steadily returning D to well-managed CBDs. Revel Fox (of Revel Fox & Partners, still in business Corresponding with this international trend, the today), and completed in CCID’s own publication not only provides evidence of 1972 after three years of the growing employee population as the residential construction, it’s the type population climbs (according to the national census, of building that many of this has grown from 1 570 in 2001 to 5 286 in 2011, us Capetonians recognise and is now estimated to be close to 6 000), but also but, depending on age, we highlights the benefi ts of an increasingly improved all seem to have our own public transport system being able to bring potential term of reference for it. The workers into the CBD from other areas. BP Tower. The LG Building. The report also contains three years of trendable The one with the Standard results from surveys conducted among its business, Bank sign at the top. retail and residential components, as well as daytime Originally christened and nighttime CBD user perception surveys. the BP Centre, and The chairperson of the CCID, Rob Kane, says: “We incorporating the low-lying fi rmly believe that the next wave of development buildings that still surround and indeed growth overall in the CBD will be and link to it on Thibault towards accommodating increasing residential Square, the tower block was demands, from the need for more apartments – my very fi rst offi cial offi ce hopefully also including more affordable purchasing environment when, during and rental opportunities – to the provision of retail the late 1970s, I spent the and other facilities to service the needs of this afternoons of my student growing population. days in it as a part-time “The CCID’s last report, 2013 – A year in review, receptionist to a quantity also received extensive national and international surveyor. Back then, there recognition,” says Kane, “and was honoured with an were few other buildings tall award by the International Downtown Association (IDA) enough to block our view in the category of Economic & Business Development of the harbour and I can for ‘developing successful marketing efforts and even remember watching strategies that have recruited new businesses or the Union-Castle Royal Mail improved retention efforts in a downtown.’ ship undertaking its fi nal “We have no doubt voyage out of the 2014 report will harbour. prove to be just as THE STATE OF useful – by providing CAPE TOWN Being back in the building, CENTRAL CITY there’s a wonderful sense information to those REPORT for me of now returning to looking to invest in the 2014 A YEAR IN REVIEW my roots; coming full circle, Cape Town CBD, and so to speak. Much the same “good buildings” and the axis, which minimises the major bonus for the CCID by giving assurance as the building has itself. BP Centre was among those sun load on the facades and staff: everyone of us now to those currently Until last year, when selected. consequently reduces air has a superb view of our invested here that they Portside opened on Bree Built for R8 million by conditioning running costs. downtown! have made a very wise Street, it was the tallest (then) Murray & Stewart, The twist also enables To shield the windows on economic decision.” building in the Central City. the tower sits at a jaunty all offi ces to have a view the east, north and west An e-book version is In 1973, it won a medal 45 degree twist to the of either the harbour or from the sun, a precast available at as the best example of rectangular grid of the across the CBD towards screen was mounted on www.capetownccid.org/our-work/ architecture in the Cape streets surrounding it; the the mountain, and gives every fl oor of the 32-storey communications/state-of-the-cape-town-central- Province. In 2000, the intention not only to bring occupants a unique outlook offi ce tower. These screens city-report. Hard copies can also be obtained via the South African Institute of addition focus onto the between the neighbouring stand away from the sides CCID (email [email protected]). Architecture conducted a building itself but to place it buildings rather than of the building to allow air national survey to identify practically on a north-south directly at them. It’s a to fl ow behind them and refl ect additional light into circular frameless glass Town for R300m, and was at the offi ces, while cutting drum suspended from a the time the largest grade-A The square in the 1970s off the sun’s direct rays. steel ring attached to the commercial property in The facade consists of underside of the structure. the city. Today owned and precast column and beam The low-rise building managed by Redefi ne, liners with an exposed adjacent to the tower, now the building received an aggregate grey stone – a the offi ces of Standard Bank extensive upgrade of R25m fi nish unlikely to suffer the Thibault Square branch, from its previous owners in same discolouration that originally contained a 2011, and with the CBD now downtown buildings often private cinema, exhibition expanding signifi cantly encounter through city and conference rooms, and into the Foreshore area, pollution. additional offi ces for use by 1 Thibault is well placed in The dramatic three-storey BP, the building’s original what is fast becoming the foyer (bringing the building anchor tennant. new heart of the CBD. It’s to 35 storeys in total) was In 2006, the building was a fi tting new home for the an innovation in itself, sold along with two other CCID, and one to which I’ve contained within a larger offi ce buildings in Cape fondly returned. April / May 2015 CityViews www.instagram.com/CapeTownCCID around town 5

Signal Hill Winery’s owner, Jean-Vincent Ridon, Jean-Vincent’s partner, Laurence Buthelezi, The winery’s vineyard is situated presses grapes the old-fashioned way. trained in Burgundy. on the slopes of . Photos courtesy of Jean-Vincent Ridon

bottles are made from the grapes to produce one bottle Oranjezicht grapes and 300 of wine. from the sun-kissed Camps Signal Hill is also stocked at Where Burgundy Bay grapes, and the rest Caroline’s Fine Wine Cellar (62 are currently sourced from Strand St) and can be ordered Constantia and . with your dinner at Chefs “You don’t need fancy Warehouse and Canteen, also meets Bree Street equipment,” he says, “unless in Heritage Square. you’re going industrial You may be tempted to and want to make 300 000 describe what you taste with The Western Cape is a famed New World winemaking region, but who bottles a year.” words. But, reiterates Jean- If you’d like to sample a Vincent, words mean nothing would have thought that a few of its most palatable vintages are wine produced at SA’s only when it comes to vino. “They produced by a winery in the Cape Town Central City? City Views editor urban winery, pop in to link to your own frame of 100 Shortmarket St from reference. This wine might Brent Smith met with Signal Hill Winery’s owner, Jean-Vincent Ridon, Monday to Saturday for taste like my grandmother’s on a Friday afternoon for a spot of tasting. a free tasting. And while marmalade to me, but it’s you’re there you can order something completely food from neighbouring different to you. And it restaurant HQ. doesn’t matter, because, The winery also opens late much like the CBD’s streets ean-Vincent is a by Jean-Vincent and his He explains that in Western Cape wineries are for tastings as part of the and public spaces, it brings French winemaker, partner, Laurence Buthelezi, traditional European traditionally more in line with First Thursdays initiative. us together.” and today he has a Burgundy-trained Zulu winemaking centres – such those of the Bordeaux region If you happen to have your offered me a smoky winemaker – as well as any as those in France, Spain, and its rows of countryside own vine or vineyard, you Signal Hill Winery SpanishJ Grenache to taste member of the public who Italy and Germany – grapes vineyards that rapidly can even bring your harvest 100 Shortmarket St at his South African winery is keen to be a part of the are grown and wine is made expanded during the 17th for fermentation. It takes www.winery.co.za, on Shortmarket Street. winemaking process. “Every in villages, towns and cities, century. about a kilo and a half of 021 424 5820 “What can I say? The tannins time we do a pressing or a not in the countryside as aren’t harsh,” he opines. bottling we advertise it on South Africans are used City slicker “So it’s a wine to be drunk Facebook so that people to. “Vines were protected However, Jean-Vincent – something we share with can come and join,” says the behind the fortifications says he will always stay in friends – not a wine to just vintner, who has made wine of old European villages, the city and hopes to see talk about.” in California, France and because in times of war they more vineyards planted in Ironically, these words Turkey, and in South Africa wanted to protect the wine! the . His is a fully say it all, summing up since 1996. “We even glue on In fact, 90% of Burgundy operational boutique winery Jean-Vincent’s approach to the labels by hand.” wineries are inside villages that produces 3 000 – 4 000 winemaking and the way and towns.” bottles a year. Six hundred his produce brings together Wine of origin different people and Born in the Alpes on the influences. border of the Rhone River HANDMADE IN THE CBD The Grenache was made and educated in Paris, right here in the Cape Town Jean-Vincent was invited in Here are two more reasons to love local in the CBD from grapes harvested 2001 by the mayor of Paris Central City. in the dry granite soil of the to be official winemaker at Piekenierskloof ridge in the last vineyard in city, Clos Mali South Citrusdal. But for its “city” Montmartre. But he chose Master tailor Meiga (from Mali) will kit you out in wines, Signal Hill Winery uses to stay in the Cape Town your very own bespoke hand-embroidered outfit. grapes from tiny vineyards CBD, where he initially set He’s recently moved to a new, larger premises situated in, of all places, up shop in 1999, two years where you can see for yourself how his beautiful Oranjezicht and . after Signal Hill Winery was garments are made. The courtyard at its Heritage founded on Ashanti Estate 94-96 Long St | 021 426 1519 Square premises (where it in Paarl. moved in 2009) is also home “I’m a city man,” he says, Skinz Leatherwear to the oldest vine in the “and, after discovering Since 1978, Skinz has manufactured and country. The latter has been through the Western Cape sourced unique leatherwear. This is the place use for a limited vintage of 20 Provincial Archives that there to pick up leather waistcoats, suede crop tops, bottles per year. were once three wineries in ostrich-skin wallets – and even outlandish Once the grapes are Church Street, I wanted to porcupine lampshades. harvested, everything bring winemaking back to 86 Long St | 021 424 3978 Mali South is done by hand on site the Central City.” 6 talk of the town www.facebook.com/CityViewsCapeTown @CapeTownCCID CityViews April / May 2015

“Whites only” and “Non-whites only” benches, Queen Victoria St, outside the High Court Annex

Before 1990, the street scene depicted in this image would Wire-art De , statue of Government Ave have been illegal. The Population Registration Madiba, Act of 1950 required that each Mandela inhabitant of South Africa be Rhodes Place classified and registered in accordance with their racial characteristics. Meanwhile, under the Reservation of Separate Amenities Act of 1953, even the use of street furniture was designated along racial lines – which means our Precinct 1 & 4 manager, Mmiselo Ntsime, would not have been allowed to sit on the “Whites only” bench, and our Precinct 2 manager, Paul Lotter, would not have been allowed to sit on the “Non- It was from the steps of whites” bench. Tuynhuys that President Through strategic legislation, FW de Klerk announced the urban environment in on 18 March 1992 that SA was engineered to keep South Africa had “closed different races apart. Parliament the book on ”. repealed the Reservation of Separate Amenities Act on 15 October 1990 and the Population Registration Act on 28 June 1991. These benches, which form What makes the Cape Town Central City a place for all? part of an installation by artist The 2011 South African Census revealed an inclusive and Roderick Sauls, were placed outside the High Court Annex embracing residential population in the CBD, made up of 47% building to show where the Race Black African, 12% Coloured, 4% Indian/Asian and 31% White. Classification Appeal Board once sat to determine people’s race THE classification. NEW SOUTH Freedom Day on The Atrium at Mandela Rhodes Place (cnr Wale City Hall and the , 27 April AFRICA Darling St and Burg sts) is where you’ll commemorates find this wire-art statue of Madiba by Masimba Jefta the day in 1994 (Jeff) Mwazha entitled when the first First Step to Freedom. democratic election was held in South “Democracy is an Africa. The ANC open house with was voted into a firm foundation power and Nelson and a balcony to Mandela was sing from” inaugurated as president on 10 May.

It was here, from the balcony Open House of the , Provincial Legislature that Nelson Mandela first square, Long St addressed the nation after spending 27 years in prison. between Wale & Dorp sts On 11 February 1990, after a journey from Victor Verster On 27 April 2015, South Prison (now Groot Drakenstein Africa’s democracy turns Correctional Centre), the then 21 and “eligible to run its future president spoke to own house,” according 60 000 supporters on the to artist Jacques Coetzer, Grand Parade. who won the Western Cape Government’s public After Madiba’s death, on art competition last year. 6 December 2013, thousands His design will soon be of mourners gathered at the installed in Long Street. same site. April / May 2015 CityViews www.instagram.com/CapeTownCCID talk of the town 7

Far left: The Museum District Six was originally established as a mixed community of freed slaves, merchants, artisans, labourers and immigrants. On 11 February 1966 it was declared a white area under the Group Areas Act of 1950, and by 1982, more than 60 000 people had been forcibly removed to the . The Group Areas Act was repealed on 30 June 1991. The , established in December 1994, works with the memories of the District Six experience and with that of forced removals more generally. You can visit the museum itself or take a site tour. THE www.districtsix.co.za STRUGGLE 021 466 7200 District Six Museum, Left and below: The Purple FOR 25 Buitenkant St The Purple Shall Govern by Conrad Botes Rain Protest memorial, FREEDOM Burg St at Church St intersection “Freedom, to me, implies the ability to move with ease between spaces that were previously restricted Celebrating – spatially and conceptually. FREEDOM It requires much more than a legal framework to make IN THE freedom live well in our lives.

Twenty-one years During an anti-apartheid protest in the Central City on CENTRAL CITY 2 September 1989, four days before parliament held have shown us its elections, a police water cannon with purple dye how much work As the oldest CBD in South Africa, Cape Town was turned on thousands. A piece of anti-apartheid graffiti, “The purple shall govern”, appeared on the is required on the Central City has a long history of segregation Old Town House (now home to the Michaelis Collection) level of economic in . The statement is a play on and oppression that dates all the way back to words of the ’s declaration that empowerment, “The people shall govern”. Conrad Botes’s artwork th gender equity, the mid-17 century. However, for the past 25 depicts those who defied the then state of emergency and participated in the march. embracing of years the CBD has also been at the forefront of differences of all kinds in people change for the better, and is the place where before freedom for Nelson Mandela first addressed the nation after “For us was just symbolic all is a reality. he was released from prison in 1990. of the removal out of District Six.” The District Six – Cape jazz icon Abdullah Ibrahim Museum represents a space for exploring all of these; to think “This cathedral here St George’s Cathedral, 5 Wale St about, discuss and The studio where Abdullah Ibrahim’s “Mannenberg” will tell stories in was recorded in 1974 is commemorated with a experience some of sculpture of seven stainless-steel pipes mounted the future. It will the freedoms.” outside the building. Designed by electrical engineer tell stories of how Mark O’Donovan and performance artist Francois – Bonita Bennett, Venter, the pipes have been tuned to play the first police and soldier seven notes of the melody. Run a stick along these desecrated this director of the pipes to hear “Mannenberg”. District Six Museum holy place; this cathedral will speak of rallies that we Mannenberg pipes, have had when Bloem St our organisations decided to unban themselves. This cathedral will speak of the start of that great march, in “For us Manenberg September, a march was just symbolic that started in Cape of the removal out Town and was of District Six.” copied in the rest of Cape jazz icon South Africa.” Abdullah Ibrahim – Archbishop Emeritus On 13 September 1989, Archbishop Desmond Tutu in an Desmond Tutu led 30 000 Capetonians from a diverse cross-section of the city excerpt from his book in a march through the CBD in support The Rainbow People of the end of apartheid. www.sgcathedral.co.za, 021 424 7360 of God 8 talk of the town www.facebook.com/CityViewsCapeTown @CapeTownCCID CityViews April / May 2015 Lessons from abroad Post-apartheid South Africa has become a beacon of democracy and freedom. But, as you will discover in many of the museums and street installations in our cosmopolitan downtown, Capetonians often reflect outward. As such, our CBD The South African also has memorials that recognise atrocities committed elsewhere in the world. Jewish Museum’s Religious and Cultural The Cape Town Holocaust Centre Diversity Programme

Situated alongside the Cape Town Holocaust Centre, in the Albow Brothers Centre in Hatfield Street, is the South Photo courtesy of Richard Freedman Photo courtesy of Richard African Jewish Museum.

It offers a free programme to grade five to seven learners that exposes them to ideas around diversity, multiculturalism, different religions and common humanity.

In groups, learners move around the museum between four stations, coming together at the end to reflect on the experience. The programme is run by trained facilitators, endorsed by the Western Cape Education Department.

88 Hatfield St www.sajewishmuseum.co.za 021 465 1546 From persecution The Cape Town “The best way to “The Cape Town to fascism: Holocaust Centre bridge the divides Holocaust Centre reminding 88 Hatfield St in our society is uses the platform us never to During World War II, to learn about of Holocaust history Nazi Germany killed forget approximately six million each other. This to engage people Jews as well as millions of programme aims from all walks of others, including differently abled people and those from to do exactly that. life in questioning the LGBT community. What underpins the concepts The South African Holocaust our programme is that underlie our & Genocide Foundation and democratic and Cape Town Holocaust Centre thecommonality were set up partially to teach of human values free society, such about the consequences as respect for of prejudice, and the dangers found across the of indifference, apathy and diverse global diversity, freedom silence. religions and of speech and www.ctholocaust.co.za, cultures. association and the 021 462 5553 value and fragility Diversity shows of democracy. us different manners in which It is hoped that with to embrace the this awareness we same basic morals will help to create and values, it is a more caring and something to just society in celebrate.” which each human being is respected – Gavin Morris, and valued.” director of the South African Jewish – Richard Freedman, Museum national director of the SA Holocaust & Genocide Foundation

Berlin Wall fragment Top of St George’s Mall

In 1996, Nelson Mandela visited Berlin. Following his visit, the German government sent him a segment of the Berlin Wall as a gift. Originally displayed inside the V&A Waterfront, it can today be found on St George’s Mall outside the building that bears Mandela’s name (Mandela Rhodes Place). The Berlin Wall was a symbol of the suppression of human rights by the Eastern bloc during the Cold War and its fall marked the first critical step towards German The SA Jewish Museum at the Albow Brothers Centre reunification. April / May 2015 CityViews www.instagram.com/CapeTownCCID talk of the town 9

The Slave Tree Spin St traffic island

Slaves would wait under the “slave tree” for their masters to come out of Groote Kerk. Although the original slave tree was removed in 1916, a commemorative plinth can be found in its place. As part of World Design Capital 2014, artist and designer Nadya Glawé erected a temporary sculpture of a tree at the site. 180 years Bound by of SLAVERY origin The Dutch settlers introduced slavery to the shortly after their arrival in 1652. The first slave, Abraham van Batavia, arrived here as a stowaway in 1653. Slavery at the Cape went on for almost two centuries and ended nearly 50 years before the and establishment of Johannesburg.

Bo-Kaap Museum “While Cape Town is uniquely favoured with historical sites, The Slave Lodge one is of unique importance in its rallying cry The Slave Lodge Cnr Adderley & to consider our Wale sts history’s past The Slave Lodge was built by injustices and think the Dutch settlers in 1679. creatively about Slaves lived in the building until 1811. It then housed ways to make our a variety of government future a better departments, including the Cape Supreme Court, the one. For very good library and the post office. reason, the Iziko Since 1960, it has been used as a museum and it now Slave Lodge is fast contains exhibits regarding developing in to the history of slavery. one of Cape Town’s www.iziko.org.za/museums/ must-see museum slave-lodge, 021 460 8242 attractions.” – Lalou Meltzer, director of the Social History Collections, of

South Africa Tichmann Photos courtesy of Paul

Bo-Kaap Museum The Cape Town 71 Wale St, Bo-Kaap Memorial to the Chapter two of the Constitution Enslaved Bo-Kaap is the traditional home of Cape Town’s Muslim of South Africa contains the Bill of Church Square community and became home Rights, which states, among other Church Square was once a to many freed slaves after slave market. Additionally, the abolition of slavery in things: “No one may be subjected to Dutch East India Company 1834. The Bo-Kaap Museum slavery, servitude or forced labour.” slaves were baptised in the highlights the cultural Groote Kerk, while slave contribution to the Cape children were required to made by early Muslim settlers You can view the Bill of Rights online work in the silk factory in by depicting a typical Spin Street – both adjacent to th at www.justice.gov.za/legislation/ 19 -century Bo-Kaap the square. Today, 11 granite household. constitution/bill-of-rights.html. blocks give an indication www.iziko.org.za/museums/ of the names of some of bo-kaap-museum, the slaves traded in Church 021 481 3938 Square as well as words synonymous with the era. 10 about town www.facebook.com/CityViewsCapeTown @CapeTownCCID CityViews April / May 2015

Far left: CCID fieldworker Dean Ramjoomia addresses Khulisa’s Bridge the Gap participants as his colleagues Headman Siralarala and Mark Williams look on. Left and above: The participants wear orange EPWP vests. BRIDGING the gap

A pilot project developed by the NGO programmes and work “Money is very important – if a Khulisa alumnus if one should opportunities where people can you go home you have something became available. And Councillor Khulisa Social Solutions and funded earn an income. It also aims to to offer. Or you can now pay for Dave Bryant has promised ward through the City of Cape Town as part of instil normal working habits yourself to stay in a shelter, which money to continue some of the whereby participants arrive for can cost R800 a month.” cleaning. the Expanded Public Works Programme work every day, on time. “We Another participant, in her 50s, “These are the kinds of (EPWP) is giving 38 CBD street people monitor this, not to punish them, came to Jesse with tears in her partnership, along with the but to create a daily pattern,” eyes after receiving her first pay CCID, the Service Dining Rooms, the opportunity to earn an income and says Jesse. cheque – it was the first of her life. U-turn, Soil for Live and Fruit learn valuable skills. Khulisa’s Cape Town “Just having a bank account and & Veg City, that can make the A day in the life a salary feels incredible. One guy programme a success.” manager of strategic partnerships, Bridge the Gap’s participants are came to me and said when he went Constantly being arrested and expected to arrive at the Service to the bank, he queued and felt like appearing in the community Jesse Laitinen, filled us in on how it works. Dining Rooms at 08h15 every a normal person.” court costs society financially, and morning. The day starts with it also has a psychological impact a meeting, where everyone is What’s next? on those who find themselves t started with a “job advert” Jesse says Mehnaaz, who is encouraged to talk about their Jesse says the Bridge the Gap trapped in the cycle. Khulisa’s at the Service Dining Rooms based at the community court lives. By 09h00, they’re in Lower pilot project is the first step on the daily eight-hour programme on Canterbury Street – just in Buitenkant Street, interacts Gardens and Bo-Kaap, cleaning ladder. “We have a responsibility keeps its participants busy and Ilike any you’d find in the with up to 300 street people per the streets. The City provides when it ends in June to place fosters work skills while teaching newspaper or on the noticeboard month. “Unfortunately, because them with brooms. One of the its participants in programmes life skills. at your local supermarket. Only, street people often have no guys took the initiative to make that will help them further or Fittingly, “khulisa” is a Zulu this one was aimed at recruiting address, a social worker has only scoops out of plastic containers. find entry-level jobs. For this, we word meaning to nurture. Jess members of a marginalised one day to spend with them – and Lunch is at 12 at the Service hope to get CBD businesses on concludes: “You find potential section of society, one that has then they go back to the street. Dining Rooms, and afterwards board. Wimpy in St George’s Mall, and use it. It’s amazing how traditionally struggled to enter The service we could provide was the second part of the daily for example, has committed to people respond when you into the job market. completely inadequate, which programme takes place. One keeping aside an entry-level job for believe in the good in them.” It was the first step in an organic was frustrating.” group goes upstairs for computer, selection process for Khulisa’s This was the proverbial spark literacy and occupational Bridge the Gap project and, for Bridge the Gap. “We started therapy lessons provided by Jesse Laitinen meets with Dean. according to Jesse, the response looking at other ways to help U-turn Homeless Ministries, was phenomenal. “Forty-five street people. There are already while the others go across street people turned up at the NGOs such as Straatwerk and the road to tend the garden at first call and 75 at the next. Most The Carpenter’s Shop that Fruit & Veg City – a Soil for Life of them knew and trusted our provide work to people who are project with a five-year contract social worker, Mehnaaz Essop, relatively high up in terms of self- allowing them to sell produce to who they’d met through the motivation and resilience. Many the retailer. These groups rotate community court. CCID field of our respondents had been throughout the week. workers [Dean Ramjoomia, stuck in a cycle of petty crimes Headman Siralarala and Mark such as theft and bylaw offences Earning a living Williams] helped us narrow such as aggressive begging. These The participants are paid R1 200 the respondents down to the are the people who fall through fortnightly. Four weeks in, at the 38 required. The CCID also the cracks of society.” time of writing, the programme contributed towards start-up Begun with the aim of learning had an attendance rate of 85%. costs.” what works when it comes to Jesse jokes: “I checked: the rate of helping people off the streets, absenteeism in the workplace in “A quarter of them the project is based on a harm- South Africa is between 15 and have returned home reduction model that postulates 30%, so we’re doing very well!” If you have a job or moved in with it’s not just an individual’s fault Even more encouraging, 69% opportunity for a Khulisa friends, including one that he or she may have become of the participants have moved Bridge the Gap participant, marginalised; it’s often also the off the streets. A quarter of them please contact the CCID’s participant who had social development result of an environment that have returned home or moved been on the streets manager, Pat Eddy, on doesn’t offer other alternatives. in with friends, including one since 1992.” 021 286 0830. As such, Khulisa’s pilot project participant who had been on the includes personal development streets since 1992. Jesse says: April / May 2015 CityViews www.instagram.com/CapeTownCCID talk of the town 11 It’s your move Associate “freedom of movement” with any city in the world and it will conjure up different things to the citizens in each of those place. Turning its focus on to the Cape Town CBD, City Views defines what those words mean to our own downtown and to all of us as Capetonians.

Freedom to use public transport A good CBD that provides access to readily available public transport for all means a space where people can move with ease. According to the CCID’s The State of Cape Town Central City Report: 2014 – A year in review, it’s been estimated that approximately 350 000 people move through the CBD each day, with approximately 151 403 ending their trip in the CBD itself for the purposes of work or education. This volume has seen the MyCiTi bus rapid transit system roll out its operations to a total of 15 direct routes into and out of the area, via three main transit stations and 22 stops.

Many commuters now equate the MyCiTi system to freedom of movement for themselves. According to Esihle Dyoyi (right): “The bus gives me freedom of feeling safe, with no fear at all that other passengers will rob me.” For Johannesburg tourists Mpho and Ben Raseruthe: “MyCiTi gives us the freedom to get to places much more cheaply than a metered taxi. It’s been our main mode of transport in Cape Town and we love it!”

Freedom for pedestrians There are those who occupy the CBD in many different Freedom for cyclists ways, daily treading a path to and from places of work With the City making a concerted effort or study. For these people, freedom of movement towards more sustainable transport options, may mean sidewalks where people feel both safe and this has also seen a number of dedicated welcome as pedestrians, and include streets that have bicycle lanes rolled out across the CBD. been narrowed for pedestrian prioritisation or closed entirely to vehicular traffic Yes, City Views readers (particularly those of you still in your cars), that’s what the The City of Cape Town’s Transport for Cape Town green lanes that criss-cross Bree Street department also recently introduced a programme to represent: a way in which Transport for roll out exclusive pedestrian signal control to enhance Cape Town aims to give cyclists their own pedestrian safety. The system activates a four-way stop freedom of movement, safe from the of vehicular traffic at a busy intersection, providing danger of cars. pedestrians with their own allotted and exclusive use time to cross during a signal cycle, and also permits It seems to be taking a while for the crossing in any direction while the lights are in the message to sink through that these are not pedestrians’ favour. opportunities in which to double-park a vehicle, but the more we talk about it, the Audio-tactile pedestrian push-buttons are also being more we’ll respect cyclists’ own freedom of incorporated into the system to aid pedestrians with movement through the CBD. special needs, thus improving on universal accessibility and speaking to the need to ensure that the Central City strives towards a downtown that embraces freedom of movement for those who are differently abled.

Freedom to protest The Cape Town Central City has for many decades been a place that has strived for freedom of expression, from the days of the Purple Rain Protest during the apartheid era (when water cannons filled with purple dye were turned on protesters in Greenmarket Square) to the thousands who today still march through the CBD, voicing their right to protest. Freedom of movement through the CBD has, therefore, come to equate freedom of expression in a downtown where the right to stage a protest march (as long as the protest remains orderly) has become exercised almost weekly.

During a four-month period (from December 2014 until the time of going to print), the CCID posted notifications of a total of 20 protest marches (that’s an average of five a month), ranging in size from 5 000 to 50, all without incident, as participants moved freely along our streets and into public places, expressing what they felt passionate about. 12 on the town www.facebook.com/CityViewsCapeTown @CapeTownCCID CityViews April / May 2015

APRIl – MAY

Pencil these April and May events into your What’s on in the diary. And for more activities, exhibitions, shows and gigs, keep an eye on our Facebook page, CENTRAl CITY www.facebook.com/CityViewsCapeTown.

Throughout 28 April – 3 May April and May Suidoosterfees Cabaret in Cape Town th The Fugard Theatre The 12 annual welcomes you to the raunchy Suidoosterfees, a festival Kit Kat Club as the world- that thrusts Kaapse lifestyle, famous Cabaret opens nightly cultural diversity and throughout April and May. inclusivity into the limelight, Where: The Fugard Theatre whirls its way across the CBD. When: Tuesdays to Fridays Where: Cape Town City 8-19 April at 20h00, Saturdays at Hall, the Artscape and the 16h00 & 20h00 Fugard Theatre The Greatest Love of All – When: 10h00 The Whitney Houston Show Cost: R100-R280, available through Computicket Cost: Free – This is a fun tribute to the pop icon featuring hits including www.thefugard.com www.suidoosterfees.co.za “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” and “I Will Always Love You” 7-10 May performed by Belinda Davids. Kamers Where: , DF Malan St Enjoy a captivating fusion of When: 20h00, Saturday at When: Wednesdays to Saturdays at 20h00, Sundays at 18h00 design and crafts in the form 14h00 and 20h00, Sunday Cost: R240-R290, available through Computicket of a vast pop-up retail at 13h00 and 18h00 www.artscape.co.za showcase under one roof. Cost: R70 at gate, R50 at Where: Cape Town City www.ffw.co.za 7-18 April Hall, Darling St www.kamersvol.com Anthology: Where: Alexander A Change in the Weather Upstairs, 76 Strand St 7 May Three writers and two actors When: 21h00 produce an anthology of short Cost: R100 at the door, First Thursdays Where: Bree & plays based on the theme R90 online The Central City comes Church sts “A Change in the Weather”. https://alexanderbar.co.za alive on the fi rst Thursday When: 10h00 of every month, as dozens Cost: Galleries offer 19-24 May of art galleries stay open free entry; look out for 18 April and cultural events go on restaurant specials St Petersburg Ballet 29-31 May The Independence Gala Zimbabwe will peform, along perform Swan Lake until late. www.fi rst-thursdays.co.za During this evening that with top Zim dancehall artists Making its fi rst visit to Electronic celebrates the diversity of and others. Cape Town in eight years, & Gaming Expo African culture and African Where: Cape Town City St Petersburg Ballet will Cape Town’s fi rst complete independence, award-winning Hall, Darling St perform the world’s most- gaming exhibition will artists Cabo Snoop from Angola When: 20h00 loved ballet – Swan Lake. allow gamers to touch, feel and Buffalo Souljah from Cost: R100-R150 Where: Artscape and experience the virtual Theatre Centre, world and what this exciting 30 April DF Malan St industry has to offer. When: 20h00, Saturday Where: Cape Town The Delft Big Band Where: St George’s at 14h00 and 20h00, International Convention Join the cats at The Crypt Jazz Cathedral, 5 Wale St Sunday at 13h00 Centre, 1 Lower Long St Restaurant as the Delft Big When: 20h00 and 18h00 When: 10h00 Band perform for International Cost: R100 Cost: R285-R630 Cost: R60 Jazz Day. www.thecryptjazz.com www.artscape.co.za www.egesa.co.za

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