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what we can get. I’m told, though, all other neighbourhoods #TRENDING that even if we do receive our usual throughout the City, whether there share of winter showers, it won’t be are city improvement districts or City Views enough to replenish our dams to a not, we have a street community. #cosplay higher level than the end of last Until there are enough facilities is a free Cape Town winter. This means water restrictions to accommodate the homeless, we Central City community are likely to become a way of life in the need to find solutions that best newspaper published by Cape, at least for the next few years. meet the challenges. And we will the Cape Town Central City It’s amazing how much we depend only find the ultimate solutions when Improvement District (CCID), on water, and yet how much it we all work together – private, a non-profit organisation. It makes life difficult on the street. To public and NGO sectors. But for shelter street people from the now, let’s all at least do the best we is the CCID’s vision to ensure elements – the rain and the icy can to help the truly destitute. If, the Central City is safe, clean, winds – the CCID is putting in place as a corporate, you would consider FanCon: Cape Town Comic Con came to the CTICC on the caring and open for business a few important interventions this getting involved with the Street weekend of 29 April. for all who use it, whether Navigating year. As in previous years, we’ll be Sleeper project, take a look at (image: Atlanta Comic Con) they live, work or play here, providing waterproof ponchos, as page 7 for more information. It’s all or are passing through. the waters well as instant soup, for distribution part of being a caring Central City by our Social Development we can be proud of. Rain, rain, go away ... fieldworkers to their clients as On that note, on page 8, our or come again? needed. This will supplement the Social Development manager, Pat assistance they already render every Eddy, tells us about transitional www.facebook.com/ single day. We are also working housing for the homeless and harm CityViewsCapeTown Tasso Evangelinos with Youth Solutions Africa’s reduction – two concepts that could Woodstock shelter to ensure it has also lead to a more caring CBD. Published by CEO of the CCID The Cape Town Central City enough bed space for up to 30 of As for our regular programming, Improvement District (CCID) our clients every night. You can find so to speak, this issue of City Views th 13 floor, 1 Thibault Square, Winter is tricky. Cape Town’s is out about this and other CCID- is, as usual, filled with a mix of Cnr Long St & Hans Strijdom Ave, #KeepItClean Cape Town, 8001 usually cold and wet, a time when partnered NGOs on page 5. retail and event news. We also look www.capetownccid.org the worst off have it even worse. Then, for the first time this year, at the route the Foreshore Freeway Did you see our activation in Bree www.facebook.com/CapeTownCCID It’s also a time when, after a long, we are purchasing 150 Street Sleeper may take in the coming years Street on 6 April? The CCID removes 2 100kg of street refuse a day from 021 286 0830 dry summer, many of us are hoping sleeping bags for our fieldworkers (page 4), and speak to three the Central City. for rain. Though we may feel guilty to distribute on the streets. Many influential Central City-based Editorial (CCID) doing so from our warm homes, may say we are encouraging and millennials about the spaces they Editor: Brent Smith enabling people to sleep on the inhabit (page 9). [email protected] this is especially true in 2017 when, #KeepItClean Managing editor: Aziza Patandin in the shadow of drought, we’ll take streets. The reality is that, as with Enjoy, and stay warm. [email protected] Contact Brent if you have a story to tell, and Aziza if you want copies. Communications manager: Carola Koblitz My team of four I would like to thank my team – Mark Online coordinator: Scott Arendse fieldworkers have Williams, Headman Sirala-rala, Joseph Show you care this in bucket loads. Maganga and Shanien Stemmett – for Design (Infestation) The CCID Social Development team’s tagline is “show As you will see in the their dedication to improving so many Account manager: Melissa Sherwin you care”. It’s the ethos by which we work every day, Social Development lives. I would also like to take this Art director: Sam Bainbridge and we want to inspire others to do the same. “dashboard” below, opportunity, like Tasso has above, to Sies! The CCID’s 2017 Finished artist: Shane Wells between them they challenge the Central City community. #KeepItClean campaign has come Designed by: www.infestation.co.za The Cape Town Central City and its interact almost 2 000 times with street To the business people, residents, to an end, but we continue to give a 021 461 8601 surrounding neighbourhoods have people in a three-month period. They NGOs and City officials we work with, I thumbs down to litter and illegal dumping. Contributors a street population of around 1 200. have forged close relationships with know we all have different viewpoints Content: Brent Smith, Though they live in the public eye, the many of the people they have met when it comes to street people. But how Carola Koblitz, Pat Eddy depth of their trauma is often over- over the years, facilitating essential can we come together and show we all Photography: Ed Suter, Gregor Röhrig, looked. The only way to understand and health services, visiting family and care for our community as a whole? Johan Dempers, Lisa Burnell, Carola assist is to treat them like you would other social contacts in communities Koblitz, Scott Arendse, Brent Smith anyone else. And that requires caring outside the CBD, and even attending Pat Eddy Cover photo: Ed Suter and compassion. some of their clients’ funerals. Manager of CCID Social Development

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Stakeholder news USEFUL Evolution Café CONTACTS This health store and wellness café For more serves nutritious and delicious food Central City news and drinks. and views, subscribe to Open for business 5 Portside, Bree St | 082 903 3406 Emergency the CCID’s newsletter. Go The CCID wishes these new www.evolution-cafe.com to www.capetownccid.org CCID 24-hour retailers all the best in the Central City. and enter your email Homage 1862 safety & address at the bottom security of the homepage. Located in a Victorian building opposite the Pepperclub Hotel & Spa, Homage 082 415 7127 pays tribute to the Cape’s food heritage. (Cape Town CBD only) 168 Loop St | 082 210 5218 www.facebook.com/homage.1862 Hail Pizza & Wholesome ambulance, health, Two eateries have opened behind Xpresso Café noise & fire Clarke’s Bar & Dining Room. Lo and behold, another R10 eatery in Wholesome offers healthy light meals the CBD. Coffee, pastries, sandwiches 107 / 021 480 7700 during the day. At night, the space turns and treats: everything’s a tenner. And (24 hours) into Hail Pizza. you can even buy a R10 voucher for 133 Bree St | 072 349 3551 someone on the street. 107 from landlines only www.facebook.com/hailpizza 61 Adderley St (entrance on capetown | www.facebook.com/ Shortmarket St) | 021 422 0437 Wholesomecapetown www.xpressocafe.co.za SAPS CENTRAL CITY 021 467 8001/2 Villains Ale House (24 hours)

The state of retail in THE Shop LEARN Central City Hint: it’s on the rise services The Sew Much Fun Studio Snipped Hair Bar Incident reporting & This boutique offers courses in From colouring and cutting to blow enquiries sewing to anyone, whether they dries and extensions, get groomed of retailers open in the CBD’s financial district. be absolute beginners or budding over weekends Refuse Collection, 4 Portside, Bree St | 074 093 7733 30% dressmakers. Water Issues, Street Lights 210 Long St www.facebook.com/ and Electricity Faults SnippedHairBar of retailers stay http://thesewmuchfunstudio.com 0860 103 089 open beyond 17h00 31% Traffic Signal Faults Play EAT 0860 001 948 2 The East City area* is Prepaid Electricity Meters Villains Ale House Cool Bananas 279 579 km the biggest retail Brought to you by the guys behind From raw juice to hot coffee, retail space in the precinct, with 0800 220 440 The Village Idiot, Aces ’n Spades, everything’s R10 at the cool CBD 2 Cable Theft Jerry’s Burger Bar, Jason Bakery new Cool Bananas kiosk in 105 773 m 0800 222 771 and Bardough, this English-style pub St Georges Mall. 94% retail of space including welcomes all. St Georges Mall at occupancy rate three malls Disaster Risk 38 Hout St | 021 422 2317 north intersection | 021 511 8054 Management www.facebook.com/ www.facebook.com/ Source: 2016 Retail Opinion Survey, as published in The State of Cape Town Central 080 911 4357 villainsalehouse TheVegologist City Report – 2016: A year in review | *East City = Adderley to Canterbury streets and 021 597 6000 (24 hours) Darling to Roeland streets

Social concerns Alcohol & Drug Helpline 0800 435 748 The people have “smoken” Social Development: Children The CCID’s autumn #KeepItClean campaign In May, the CCID tested a possible wondering: the CBD is pretty 0800 220 250 new ciggie bin on St Georges Mall evenly split between Beliebers and entered its final phase with a novel way to stub Social Development: and . Inspired by non-Beliebers (see left). Adults out your stompie and leave your mark. UK-based charity Hubbub’s “ballot Along with new trolleys acquired bin” design rolled out in cities earlier this year by Urban 0800 872 201 including Manchester (www. Management to make the work of CCID Social Department hubbub.org.uk/ballot-bin), this our road maintenance and graffiti 082 563 4289 one turned an outdoor smoke into teams easier, other #KeepItClean the same experience the office elements activated in May as part water cooler offers – a chance to of a month-long public awareness Bylaw & traffic debate the issues of the day. campaign included street-pole infringements The display area contained a posters and an installation question, changed on a regular showing what 2 100kg of street Law Enforcement basis, and asked smokers to vote refuse (the amount the CCID 021 596 1999 (24 hours) with their butts. The idea was to collects every day) looks like encourage them to discard their (see Twitter photo on page 2). Traffic Police stompies in a designated bin During the campaign, we also 0860 765 423 rather than on the sidewalk or distributed over 30 000 CCID- Metro Police in the gutter. And, judging by the branded pocket ashtrays. These 0860 765 423 crowds it drew and the number pouches have a flame-retardant of butts it held at the end of each lining, allowing you to stub out your Our ciggie-butt bin got smokers talking. day, the activation was a huge stompie responsibly even when success. Oh, and in case you’re there isn’t a bin nearby. 4 City Views: your free Cape Town Central City newspaper

Foreshore Freeway

Cape Town’s “road to nowhere” finally has somewhere to go. And it could pave the way for a Travel to tomorrow more equitable Central City.

There are six hectares of underused City-owned land between and around the Foreshore Freeways (left).

One of the Foreshore Freeway Precinct proposals envisioned high- rise developments and completed road infrastructure (below).

ever mind , Cape development (TOD) project, calling on investors Town’s most famous landmark is and developers to submit proposals for the arguably its Foreshore Freeway. This freeway and the surrounding land that would concrete monolith, which cuts the address the traffic congestion and make provision NCentral City off from the sea, features an elevated for affordable housing in the CBD. The aim was section as well as incomplete road “stubs”. It has to reverse the legacy of apartheid spatial planning been this way since construction halted in 1977, a and bring people closer to places of work. monument to an era of car-centred urban planning. Surrounding the freeway, however, is six hectares Six proposals made it through the initial of valuable, underused City-owned land. assessment phase. The public could view these in an exhibition at the Civic Centre in March. Some Built on reclaimed land in the 1930s, the Foreshore of the proposals advocate for joining the freeway’s itself is being reclaimed for a second time, as unfinished viaducts, while others opt for demolition greenfields developments and refurbishments of all its existing infrastructure. In the case of bring people to its streets. As the value of the the latter, an at-grade boulevard or a tunnelled precinct has increased, so has the urgency to roadway could serve as an entryway into – and “deal” with the freeway and surrounds, especially route through – the Central City. Along with considering Cape Town’s status as the most traffic- affordable housing in the area, other ideas also congested city in SA (according to TomTom). include green spaces, sports facilities and public result in the same for the Mother City? A similar way of the New York High Line, as raised by another transport infrastructure that could transform the project has transformed downtown Seoul, South of the proposals. This 2km linear park in Manhattan If completed, would the freeway solve this problem? Foreshore into a vibrant people-focused node. Korea. The removal of the elevated Cheonggye occupies an elevated section of a disused railway Or is it time to look at it with new eyes? Proponents Freeway reconnected the city with a lost spur. The project, in addition to being a spectacular of so-called new urbanism cite the benefits of This is by no means a world first. In fact, freeways waterway. According to Inhabitat, the area is public space, has also catalysed development in the walkable neighbourhoods and globally advocate are literally falling out of favour all over. One of now a “green oasis in a concrete jungle [...] that surrounding neighbourhoods. Could this be a way to for the removal of such “overbuilt” infrastructure. these was San Francisco’s Embarcadero Freeway, attracts 60 000 visitors a day”. reconnect the Cape Town CBD with the sea? There is even evidence to suggest doing so damaged by the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake lessens traffic, a phenomenon known as “reduced and then demolished. A new downtown emerged Other examples include the John F Fitzgerald The City of Cape Town is now evaluating the public’s demand” (the opposite of “induced demand”). The from the rubble, one that now has huge amounts Expressway in Boston, Massachusetts, in the comments on the proposals as part of a four-month theory goes that if a road closes, travellers will of public space, as well as paths dedicated to US, and Rio Madrid in Spain’s central capital, process that will result in the selection of the adjust their behaviour to compensate – as long as cyclists and pedestrians. There are also new public where freeway traffic now goes into underground preferred bidders for the development. Councillor there are alternatives. transport routes, which have changed the way tunnels. All these projects have led to healthier, Brett Herron, the mayco member for TDA, says the San Franciscans interact with their city. greener, and safer cities. City would like to see the planning and approval To this end, in 2016, the City of Cape Town’s processes concluded within two years. Whatever Transport and Urban Development Authority Could demolition of Cape Town’s Foreshore Demolition may not be necessary, however, to the outcome, it’s sure to be a new way forward for (TDA) launched the city’s first transit-oriented Freeway, as mooted by a few of the proposals, overhaul the freeway. Another option is to go the Cape Town. Brought to you by the Cape Town Central City Improvement District (CCID) Winter 2017 5

The CCID’s partner NGOs The Carpenter’s Shop Your donation goes to: social worker assessments and support aimed at rehabilitating and reintegrating street people into society; vocational training; a second-phase Show you care: shelter; ablution facilities. Also needs: clothing The Carpenter’s Shop also runs a car wash with dry washing. Here, you can get your vehicle cleaned by street people who have gone through a training course. Your support enables The Carpenter’s Shop to train more people, giving them an opportunity to donate become employed. 14a Roeland St | 021 461 5508 | www.tcs.org.za Winter is an especially tough time for Cape Town’s street people. We’re sure many of you want to help. If so, you can do so via Khulisa Social Solutions the CCID’s six primary partner NGOs. Your donation goes to: personal development and work-based rehabilitation for the chronic homeless to reintegrate into society. Find out about the Khulisa Streetscapes garden, sponsored by the CCID and where members of the public can buy the produce grown, on page 6. 3rd floor, Norlen House, 17 Buitenkant St Straatwerk’s road maintenance team 021 465 6112 | http://khulisa.org.za attends to defects on sidewalks in the CBD.

Straatwerk Your donation goes to: the rehabilitation of men and women living on the street via structured employment. Also needs: shoes Did you know Straatwerk gives the CCID extra capacity to meet urban management needs as they arise? Through this collaboration, the CCID creates work opportunities for around 300 street people each The CCID’s Social Development fieldworkers engage with street people and refer them to our partner NGOs for services. Pictured is Shanien Stemmet. year. This includes an upskilled road maintenance team consisting of six members who attend to repairs There are many organisations SnapScan system we’ve set up to damaged pavement surfaces and signage, minor in Cape Town that help street (see box below), in which case potholes, and road-marking painting. people. The ones on this page are we will split it equally among the 37 Chiappini St, Bo-Kaap | 021 425 0140 www.straatwerk.org.za those with which the CCID Social six NGOs that follow. Or you can Youth Solutions Africa Development team works the contact one or more of the NGOs closest in the Central City. of your choice yourself to give You can donate money via the money or goods directly.

Ons Plek Your donation goes to: a shelter for female street children that provides food and accommodation. What if i Want to 7 Malleson Rd, Mowbray | 021 685 4052/49 help right noW? www.onsplek.org.za There are four ways you can donate to the CCID’s Youth Solutions Africa partner NGOs. Your donation goes to: a shelter and skills training The Homestead programmes for men and women; a social worker to Your donation goes to: a shelter for male help reintegrate them into society. Also needs: blankets 1. SMS “GIVE” to 38088 to donate R10*. street children that provides food and Find out how the CCID helped Youth Solutions Africa accommodation; a reintegration programme. 2. Download the free SnapScan app All monetary donations expand its Woodstock shelter, on page 6. 150 Strand St | 021 461 7470 onto your smartphone and scan the CCID receives are Cnr Russell & Chapel streets, http://thehomestead.org.za the code to the right to donate the split equally among six https://safyouth.org | 021 462 8006 amount of your choice**. partner NGOs. The CCID takes no admin fee. 3. Make an EFT payment to the Show You Care GIVE RESPONSIBLY * Our partner NGOs campaign.You can find bank details receive an average of Did we bin the bin project? at www.showyoucare.co.za. R8 depending on your cellphone service If you’ve been a City Views reader for some time, or follow the CCID, you may remember our 4. Or, as outlined on this page, you provider. GIVE RESPONSIBLY donation bin project. We rolled these out to Central City businesses can make a donation directly to every winter for several years to encourage their staff to donate items for street people. the NGO of your choice. All items ** A 3% admin fee goes We are so proud that the project has taken on a life of its own, with many of the original stakeholders – Belmond Mount Nelson, Boston City Campus, Infestation, New Media in good condition are appreciated, to SnapScan. Publishing, Pam Golding Properties, Protea Hotel North Wharf, Redefine Properties, Tsogo but we’ve noted the most For detailed Ts&Cs visit Sun and Woodheads – having run with it and now managing it themselves. Thank you! If important ones some of the NGOs www.showyoucare.co.za. you are prepared to have a bin on your premises and manage it via your own organisation, are hoping for. please email [email protected].

Safe, clean, caring and open for buSineSS A non-profit organisation, the Cape Town Central City Improvement District (CCID) works with the public and private sectors to develop, promote and manage the Cape Town CBD. It has four departments: Safety & Security, Urban Management, Social Development and Communications.

Contact details for Social Development are on www.capetownccid.org

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Opportunities to help Show you care: For many years, the CCID has worked with key stakeholders on programmes to assist the homeless and destitute, putting help sponsor a its money where its mouth is. project

Several of the CCID’s projects are now ripe for expansion, while new ones are in development. We would like to challenge the Central City’s private sector to get involved with uplifting the community so we can collectively demonstrate the spirit of #ShowYouCare. Here are two projects currently seeking sponsorship.

Khulisa advocates for sheltered employment for this group, with many opportunities existing within the green economy; ie urban gardening and recycling projects. An initial pilot with 40 participants delivered these results: • Individuals were happy to work, providing the work was in line with their capability. • The income they received brought CCID fieldwork Joe Maganga interacts with a client in The Company’s Garden. routine and structure to their lives as well as providing a sense of The Khulisa garden dignity and purpose. Central City costs of consumables in the use the capital equipment costs of the • 77% of the participants and maintenance of the facilities, units and servicing them in terms of were able to move off the ablution facilities and is seeking R1 917 336 towards cleaning and waste removal. Khulisa Streetscapes streets, with 68% addressing Value: R2 291 736 – seeking Value: R2 146 560 – their substance abuse. sponsorship of R1 917 336 seeking sponsorship Along with assisting with clients, early in 2016 the of R1 497 600 How others have the identification of suitable One of the biggest asks of our CCID approached YSA with participants from its own street CBD homeless community is for already helped: an offer to fund an upgrade With the tag line “Reinventing lives”, clients for the pilot, the CCID also adequate public ablution facilities. expansion of Youth of the facility to the value of Khulisa is an NPO that empowers contributed towards the costs The few that do exist are kilometres R249 700. This included the people and communities to unlock of the programme coordinator, away from each other and only Solutions Africa’s building of four additional their potential. Its Cape Town a part-time trainer, a part-time open for very limited hours during Woodstock shelter dormitories to accommodate office, in the CBD, creates diversion substance abuse counsellor, and the day. more people, upgrading of programmes that enable minor ablution and kitchen facilities, obtaining IDs for participants. One of the CCID’s primary offenders to upskill themselves The project provision of furniture and partners in the Cape Town CBD, towards gainful employment, The City of Cape Town’s Expanded The CCID wishes to acquire three fittings, and building of 14 Youth Solutions Africa (YSA) and ultimately reintegrate into Public Works Programme (EPWP) portable ablution units that would additional lockers. works to reduce the number of society and away from what could provided stipends for the first three remain open from 06h00 till homeless people living on the In turn, the project drew otherwise become a spiral of crime. months. The CCID then funded 23h00. It wants to station these streets, and provides temporary sponsorship from Eris additional stipends beyond this close to its own mobile public shelter offering beds, access to Properties (which contributed The project period to ensure the sustainability service and information kiosks to ablution facilities and two meals R50 000 to project management The Streetscapes programme is of the project. afford users security and peace of a day. By the beginning of 2016, fees) and Tsogo Sun (which primarily for the chronic homeless mind. Serviced by participants in it was able to accommodate donated a stove and cooker). and repeat offenders who are often The sponsorship “ask” programmes with the CCID’s NGO up to 60 men and women at its Other concerned CBD unable to stay at shelters due to The programme would need partners, these facilities would also Woodstock facility. But with the stakeholders donated carpeting, heavy drinking or drug use. Many R2 146 560 to run for another create work opportunities – a total number of homeless in the CBD linens and kitchen appliances. of them have been on the streets two years. Of this, the CCID of 4 368 four-hour shifts each year. area being around 700, this was for decades, making reintegration has committed to sponsoring The CCID is now purchasing a drop in the ocean, with beds in under their current circumstances R648 000, if an additional partner The sponsorship “ask” materials to tile YSA’s ablution extremely high demand. near impossible. Lack of diversion sponsor can fund the balance A total of R2 291 736 would enable area, and providing the facility options for reoffenders has led to a of R1 497 600 (mainly for this project to run for two years. To ensure at least 18 beds could with an additional 18 steel vicious cycle of arrests and losing expansion to the garden and to The CCID has already committed to be set aside for the CCID’s own lockers for its clients. of hope, dignity and belongings. develop other work opportunities). sponsoring R374 400 towards the Brought to you by the Cape Town Central City Improvement District (CCID) Winter 2017 7

Other ways to show you care Street Sleeper is an NPO that upcycles vinyl billboards into sleeping bags for the homeless. This transforms the negative impact of waste into immediate relief for those living on the street. Street Sleeper founder Oliver Brain and Caroline demonstrate the Street Sleeper bag.

Obey started dialysis at a private access to more of his salary. But very newspaper. Says Robert: “We Buy a Street Sleeper facility in March 2016, with most life will remain a struggle and regard Hannes as our mentor and Street Sleeper is an NPO that of his salary going towards two expenses will continue to mount we are so grateful to him.” upcycles vinyl billboards into treatments per week, as well as until he receives a transplant. Robert and Vitalis registered Ladles sleeping bags for the homeless. supplementary medical expenses If you would like to help Obey out, Jarovi Trading as a company in This transforms the negative and a special diet. At the same please contact Scott Arendse at 2014 and have distributed City of Love impact of waste into immediate time, he applied for private medical [email protected]. relief for those living on the street. aid but was subject to a 12-month Views ever since. They have Ladles of Love started as a The bag is durable and waterproof, waiting period due to his pre- added to their portfolio over soup kitchen for 70 street and transforms into a carrier bag existing condition. His wife, Ashell, Support a business time and wish to take on more people but now serves for storing possessions during the also brings in earnings (sometimes clients so they can increase their over 800 meals a week in day. At night, the user can fill the working seven days a week) but, Jarovi Trading, an independent capacity for creating work for three venues: St Georges pillow slip area with clothes for between them, there hasn’t been company formed by two original others. They recently assisted Mall, The Carpenter’s Shop, head support. enough to cover his healthcare out Straatwerk participants in 2014, with the CCID Urban Management and The Haven in Napier Street. It has served over of pocket and support their two provides a variety of services. department’s #KeepItClean The CCID has purchased 150 These include distribution of flyers 70 000 free meals in total. children, one of whom has since activations in the CBD (see page “Show you care”-branded Street and newspapers, graffiti removal The organisation is looking started grade 1. 3), with CCID project coordinator Sleepers for distribution to its and event management. to partner with people and Aziza Patandin referring to their Social Development clients. In CCID online coordinator Scott businesses who want to The directors are Robert Viga professionalism and enthusiasm the event of a Street Sleeper going Arendse decided to step in, help on an ongoing basis. missing, a CCID fieldworker will be and Vitalis Mhlanga, who came as “outstanding”. raising R30 000 for Obey and To find out how, visit able to return the bag, when found, to Cape Town in 2009. They both his family through a 12-hour www.ladlesoflove.org.za through a numbering system that fell upon hard times and were Says Robert: “When we need extra tennis marathon in May 2016. unable to find work. Robert joined people for projects, we get them or call Danny Diliberto will link the property back to the Scott repeated the challenge on 073 720 8088. original recipient. Straatwerk in June of that year, via Straatwerk. But our long- on 3 June this year to celebrate and Vitalis in October, and the term goal is to give street people the end of Obey’s healthcare If you would like to buy Street two struck up a close friendship income and incentives in the form waiting period, and raised close Sleepers or fund a similar project as they upskilled on the job. In of permanent employment.” to the CCID’s, please visit to R9 000 by the time of going 2013, Straatwerk manager Hannes www.streetsleeper.org. to print. Obey’s ongoing monthly van der Merwe gave them an If you want to find out more dialysis has transferred to his entrepreneurship opportunity to about Jarovi Trading’s services, Help a friend medical aid and he will have take over the distribution of this visit www.jarovitrading.co.za. Obey Togarepi is an operations supervisor at Straatwerk. If you’re a regular City Views reader, you may recall our 2016 story about Obey’s health and the efforts of a CCID employee to raise money for him. “Go home and spend time with your family.” These were the words of a doctor at a state hospital when Obey sought help after receiving a diagnosis of kidney failure in November 2015. A Zimbabwean citizen, he was not allowed to access public healthcare in SA, even though he Scott Arendse (left) enjoys a time out with Obey Togarepi. Vitalis Mhlanga (left) and Robert Viga (right) had an SA work permit. 8 City Views: your free Cape Town Central City newspaper

There are a variety of shelters and Like Cape Town, San Francisco housing. The centres themselves Supporting the homeless services for street people in Cape has a high level of homelessness. have received a warm welcome in Town, a number of which the CCID’s Unlike Cape Town, where there many neighbourhoods, which have Social Development team work has been a tendency to “wish embraced the concept. with daily. While many of the CBD’s it away”, San Francisco has homeless access these services, taken the bull by the horns. Its The good news for Cape Town’s A place others are reluctant. The latter tend Navigation Centers are different homeless population is that the to be those who have been on the from traditional shelters in that City is considering a similar pre- streets for a particularly long time they have few barriers to entry shelter facility. A pilot safe space and who may have lost hope or and intensive case management. is set to open in the Culemborg trust in the system. They are the And unlike traditional shelters, area of the Foreshore in September. so-called “chronic homeless”. people with partners, pets and Funded by the City, it will provide possessions are welcome. the homeless at night with a place As a caring CBD, how do we ensure to sleep, eat and do laundry. It will those who need it most volunteer to The first Navigation Center, which also give them lockers to store to call seek help? The answer may lie in a opened in March 2015, has their belongings and access to transitional housing programme proved popular with homeless work programmes. As an initial pioneered in San Francisco, California, residents who have been reluctant outreach, it could persuade a and known as Navigation Centers. to go to traditional shelters. It user of the space to commit to a Run by the city’s Department of plays a role in acclimatising developmental plan. Homelessness and Supportive clients to the municipal system, Housing, it provides otherwise linking them with support The CCID supports this project, home unsheltered San Franciscans room services, and preparing them for especially as many of our clients and board while case managers moves into permanent housing. have identified a need for a safe CCID Social Development manager Pat Eddy work to connect them to income, space. In fact, we have tried tells us about the latest initiatives for supporting public benefits, health services, A June 2016 evaluation of this to identify a suitable space for the homeless and other street people. shelter and, yes, housing. pilot revealed some interesting vulnerable people for some time. statistics about its participants. The majority, 61%, had been The project could face some homeless for one to five years. challenges, though, as there is However, a significant amount currently no local best-practise had been homeless for longer, model for the pilot to draw from. with 10% over 16 years. 78% of So, it is critical the City take into those who exited the Navigation account input from the NGOs who Center went home or to render services to street people, permanent housing. At the six- as well as from potential users of month mark, the average length the space. It is essential, also, to of stay for clients who exited the consider the uniqueness of each centre into permanent housing person and to move at their pace was 57 days. without trying to find one-size-fits- all solutions. Other Navigation Centers have since opened in California, many of our together bring over 1 150 clients have vulnerable people off the streets, identified a need with 72% of them having exited to for a safe space. Mission Street’s Navigation Center in San Francisco, California A new home for harm The CCID’s Social Development Says Shaun Kelly, the projects, department welcomes TB/HIV policy, advocacy and human reduction Care’s new drop-in centre to rights manager at TB/HIV Care: the area. “Harm reduction is about meeting people where they are at, without Founded as the Nelspoort After judgement, and helping them injecting equipment won’t stop Care Committee in March 1929, Cape Argus them from using drugs, but will achieve their drug-use aims, columnist and TB/HIV Care has been helping including abstinence, in the way street people’s make it harder for them to stay as Capetonians for almost 90 years. that causes the least harm to them, activist Danny safe and healthy as possible. Oosthuizen Since 2011, it has become a major irrespective of the current legal speaks at the Many of the CCID’s own clients provider of health services to “key and policy framework.” launch of populations”; ie those most at risk TB/HIV Care’s living on the streets are injecting drop-in centre. of HIV infection. This, he believes, contributes to drugs. The harm reduction the understanding of drug use, services provided at the drop-in TB/HIV Care has offered health the development of effective provision of sterile needles and to access these services, as well centre allow this group to receive services in the Cape Town Central drug policy and the rights of syringes as well as condoms, HIV as an on-site social worker and appropriate HIV counselling and City through its mobile clinics since marginalised groups. counselling and testing, TB and psychosocial counsellor. It also testing, which assists in reducing 2007. This year, it established a STI screening, wound care, and has a safe space where they can the spread of HIV on the streets. fixed drop-in centre, on Rose Street Part of TB/HIV Care’s Step Up behaviour change interventions access shower facilities and a As a welcome gesture, the CCID is in , right outside the project, the harm reduction tailored to injecting, overdose chill-out area. purchasing two mesh locker sets CCID’s boundaries. This centre programme includes a package of prevention and the sexual risks for TB/HIV Care, one for the male provides “harm reduction” to help essential HIV and other wellness of PWID. The Western Cape Government and one for the female ablution prevent and reduce the spread of services recommended to PWID Department of Health supports areas, as well as 20 post-box HIV among sex workers and people by the World Health Organisation The CCID’s fieldworkers are able to the project, acknowledging that lockers for clients to store their who inject drugs (PWID). (WHO). The project includes the refer clients to the drop-in centre taking away someone’s safe most important belongings. Brought to you by the Cape Town Central City Improvement District (CCID) Winter 2017 9

Social spaces Meeting in the middle City Views spoke to three millennials who are shaping the Central City by enabling the spaces that attract them. In so doing, they are helping improve the area for all generations.

Born between 1980 and 2000, millennials came of age in an era The CCID’s 2015 online residential survey reflects this, revealing of rapid technological progression. For them, boundaries are not Generation Y is the largest group living in the Cape Town Central set by geography but by the limitations of their devices. They are City. (44% of all respondents were between 18 and 34.) The collaborators and can reach the world in an instant message. area also has many young workers as well as students passing through every day (owing to 82 education institutes). Despite this, millennials tend to seek out a downtown lifestyle where people prize face-to-face connection in social spaces. We found out what attracts them, Globally, more and more of them are migrating to CBDs. straight from the horse’s mouth.

Rö hrig Kyle Lucky G regor of ur CBD is also home to it easy. My dream is to smash an increasing amount through the class and subcultural of so-called “third lines and have everyone hang out courtesy spaces” catering to together as one people.” millennials.O This term refers to the social realm outside the For Kyle, this melting pot is P icture home and the office, and includes energising: “I love the hustle and community centres, cafés, grind of the CBD. It keeps your Rashiq Fataar Katlego Maphai bars and even barber shops. mind sharp and your heart strong.” According to urban sociologist Ray Oldenburg, these hangouts Many agree. According to the ashiq Fataar is the regeneration company. It lso working in the CBD grounded as a result. We are also are the heart of a community’s CCID’s 2015 online residential MD of Future Cape evaluated the space across is Yoco co-founder and surrounded by partners who help social vitality. survey, 91% of all respondents, Town (FCT), which has multiple criteria and released a CEO Katlego Maphai. us to deliver our service. ranging from millennials its office in StG eorges report with recommendations to Yoco, based in Loop A three-in-one venue at 61 to retirees, frequented The RMall. The 30-year-old founded improve it. AStreet, provides merchants of all “Additionally, the CBD’s ever- Company’s Garden and 80% Harrington St epitomises this changing environment forces the consultancy online and sizes with a mobile point of sale concept. Managed by hospitality ate out at least once a week. According to Rashiq, the us to be forward looking. This is is redefining civic engagement. application and card acceptance group The Firm, it includes Central City appeals to critical for a venture.” solution. Over 300 retailers and District (an events venue and It seems whether you’re a Rashiq says: “I trained as an millennials because it has restaurants in the have night club), Harringtons Cocktail member of Gen X, a baby actuary, and my passion for layers of history, and a relevant signed up. Lounge, and SurfaRosa (a dive boomer, the iGeneration or the cities started at the age of seven contemporary, cultural and bar). Kyle Lucky (30) – the vocalist millennial in the middle, you through Cape Town’s 2004 entertainment offering. “At the Katlego says: “Cape Town in hard rock band Dead Lucky will find a place to socialise in Olympic bid. While I worked at a same time,” he says, “there is a is one of the strongest SME and hardcore punk band One the Central City. It’s thanks in no large corporate for four years and sense of potential that speaks to environments in South Africa. Eight Seven – manages the latter. small part to the latter that these completed my degree, I started a the city’s regeneration thus far There’s a lower concentration The 33-year- spaces continue to thrive. blog in my spare time. It gained and the remarkable future of big corporates than old believes He says: “SurfaRosa is super laid attention and has transformed ahead. Millennials want to Johannesburg and, as such, the CBD back. Anyone is welcome. We’re into an independent NPO that feel that they are part of this.” people are more likely to start all about good times and taking collaborates widely to contribute a venture or work for one.” appeals to towards a more visionary, the Central millennials equitable and innovative city, The 33-year-old believes the and works on projects to move City appeals CBD appeals to millennials because a SurfaRosa is super laid back. the city towards this vision.” to millennials because a sense of connection sense of Anyone is welcome. We’re all about because it is something they value. “It is connection good times and taking it easy. My To this end, FCT recently under- vibrant, with a lot going on. took a study of Church Square has layers of Importantly, we are surrounded is something dream is to smash through the for Urban Lime, a property history ... by our customers and remain they value. class And subcultural lines. 10 City Views: your free Cape Town Central City newspaper

When you need us right now Smart city Explore the CBD If you have an on-the-ground Promote emergency or find yourself in your specials You can use the CCID website need of immediate assistance The CCID to locate retailers and service in the Central City, it’s always If you run a restaurant or shop, providers in the CBD in seven best to contact our 24-hour or provide accommodation in control centre on 082 415 7127, categories: Eat | Learn | Play and our Safety & the CBD, you can draw attention Services | Shop | Stay | Visit Security team will to specials on the CCID website. respond. First, find your venue under Explore the CBD. (If it’s not already there, please email its Get images details to scott@capetownccid. The CCID has a vast library of open-source images of or relating to org.) When you click on it, an online the Central City. This includes everything from buildings and events image (if available) and a map We have several services on our website and to public spaces. Select the photo you need under Media >> Galleries will appear to the right. Under the social media you may find useful. and click “request high resolution”. Fill out the form with your map, select “If this is your venue contact details and the reason for you request, and we’ll do the rest. and you have a special on you’d We designed the CCID website as a place where it would be easy like us to help you promote, click to locate retailers and service providers in the Central City. And since here.” Fill in the form and you’re launching two years ago, we have added new features to enhance View the CCID’s publications done! We’ll vet the information this experience. Here they are. and post it on your listing. A red You can download or view City Views online by going to banner will then appear over your About >> Publications. Here you will also find the CCID’s venue’s photo, indicating that you other publications: The State of Cape Town Central City are running a special. Report and the Best of Cape Town Central City guide.

Coming soon: our improved property listings site for the CBD We are currently giving this portal, launched last year, a revamp to make it much easier for real estate agencies to link Request open-source Gauge the economic their own listings directly to our site. Stay tuned for more information on the upgraded CCID campaign material climate of the CBD features, but go ahead and still take a peak if you are looking to buy or rent property in The CCID produces a wealth of campaign and The State of Cape Town Central City Report has its own digital portal the CBD, from residential to promotional material that other communities may on the CCID website (click Invest in the navigation menu). This commercial to retail. Click Property want to use in their own neighbourhoods. You can page opens on a map showing the locations of the various property Listings on the navigation menu. find PDFs of these by going to About >> Campaigns. developments underway, in planning or proposed in the CBD. This map To request open artwork so that you can add your will soon also represent other economic activities in the area, from the own logo etc, contact [email protected]. clustering of retailers and eateries to residential complexes and beyond.

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Winter warmers

Folk Coffee IT’s soup season Anthropology This beautifully decorated When the winter craving strikes, know café serves “soup sliders”: a selection of three soups where to go to get warm at lunchtime. along with ciabatta toast. Touchstone House, 7 Bree St 021 276 1795 Clarke’s Bar and www.folkcoffee.co.za This is your one-stop shop for a Dining Room variety of warm treats, including This hip Bree Street spot has soup Food Lovers Market soup. The staff, many of whom on its day and night menus. You get have been there for 20 years, make a choice between smoked tomato, All three Food Lovers Markets in everything on site. cauliflower or oyster chowder. It town have a self-serve soup station. 11 Riebeek St comes a grilled cheese sandwich or 122 St Georges Mall Jason Bakery’s Cup of Luv 021 419 1937 a slice of toasted sourdough. Cnr Heerengracht & Hertzog 133 Bree St | 021 424 7648 Boulevard | Icon, cnr Loop St www.clarkesdining.co.za & Hans Strijdom Ave Brownies & DownieS 087 740 9600 https://foodloversmarket.co.za A restaurant and training centre for Jason Bakery SMAK Delicatessen people with intellectual disabilities chopchop Captain Bread’s famous Cup of SMAK’s butternut and sweet potato offers a soup of the day with Luv flavour changes daily and is This East City hidden gem is all The General Store soup finished with a hint of cinnamon, crusty bread. about health and affordability. always served with a toasted slice coconut cream and deep-fried According to Eat Out, which has of freshly baked bread. chickpeas, is as vegan-friendly and 2 Long St 75 Harrington St | 071 262 4717 its offices nearby, The General delicious as they come. 021 200 0459 www.facebook.com/ 185 Bree St Store has some excellent lunchtime http://browniesdownies.co.za orderchopchop 021 424 5644 22 Bree St | 021 418 3266 soup options. www.jasonbakery.com www.smak.co.za 22 Bree St | 021 418 2305 Café Honeybun Dear Me http://the-generalstore.co.za The newest addition to For a difference, try Dear Me’s miso Lunchworks Southern Sun Cape Sun has a broth with silken tofu, seaweed, The Waterkant Street institution The landmark hotel is offering an selection of soups, including pea shiitake mushrooms and spring Giulio’s Café often has soup as a daily special. express winter lunch including and ham, spicy quinoa and tomato, onion. During winter, they usually This lunchtime hot spot offers Stay tuned to its Facebook page bottomless soup and freshly baked and butternut, on its menu. have one other soup on the menu, a soup of the day on cold days. for details, lest you miss out on the breads. The offer will be available 54 Shortmarket St which is a meatier option. Ask your waiter for details. likes of cabbage and sausage, and weekdays between 12h00 and 14h30 021 422 5225 165 Longmarket St Cornerstone House, 16 Loop St creamy leek and potato soup. in Le Bar & Lounge at the hotel. www.facebook.com/ 021 422 4920/4374 021 418 6304 22 Waterkant St | 021 418 3118 23 Strand St | 021 488 5100 CafeHoneyBunCT www.dearme.co.za www.giulios.co.za www.facebook.com/Lunchworks.ct www.tsogosun.com

Afraid of Mice Merry Pop Ins This designer store has just This second-hand kids’ store caters WARM unpacked vintage coats, for zero to 13 year olds. Its high-quality sweaters and winter dresses. stock includes items from abroad, and 86 Long St new items arrive every day. 021 423 7353 201 Bree St | 021 422 4911 AND www.afraidofmice.com www.merrypopins.co.za

Glitterati Second Time Around FUZZY Glitterati specialises in retro fashion This fun-loving vintage clothing store from the ‘50s through to the ‘80s. is full of hats, dresses and jackets that would make a flapper proud. Shop 2, Antique Arcade, 127 Long St 196 Long St | 021 423 1674 082 819 5247 http://secondtimearound.co www.theantiquearcade.co.za U-turn Charity Shop Gracious Daisy Vintage This outlet has a wonderful selection This is the place to find all those of men’s, women’s and children’s Winter is the perfect old-school threads you wish your clothing, and accessories, all in great time to look back mother had kept for you. condition at great prices. Many items and cover yourself in 234 Long St come straight from retailers and have 021 422 3597 never even been worn before. Afraid of Mice nostalgia – clothing- www.facebook.com/ 9 Long St (entrance on Riebeek Street) wise that is. GraciousDaisyVintage 021 674 6119 | www.homeless.org.za 12 City Views: your free Cape Town Central City newspaper

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On stage Where the heart is a stretch Under the dome 2-18 June 31 August (till 3 September) 17 June Ongoing Swan Lake Cape Homemakers Expo International Day of Yoga Iziko Planetarium and Digital Dome This home improvement, decor, design and lifestyle Accompanied by the Cape Town This day full of yoga will raise money for The Planetarium reopened in May with the latest expo showcases the year’s hottest trends and ideas. Philharmonic Orchestra, the Cape Town charity. There will be workshops, a market digital technology. Allow it to transport you and It features top brands and local craftsmanship … all City Ballet brings Swan Lake to the and a mega yoga practice. your kids to distant galaxies. under one roof. Artscape Opera House. Where: Cape Town International Convention Where: Iziko Planetarium and Digital Dome, Where: Cape Town International Convention Centre, Where: Cape Town City Hall, Darling St Centre, Convention Square, 1 Lower Long St 25 Queen Victoria St Convention Square, 1 Lower Long St When: various times; see website When: 08h00 till 19h00 When: Various When: 10h00 Cost: R120- Cost: Free Cost: Adults R40; children, students and SA Cost: Adults R80; pensioners R70; www.artscape.co.za www.joellesleebos.com pensioners R20 (to increase from 17 June) children under 12 free www.iziko.org.za www.homemakersonline.co.za

Show you GIVE RESPONSIBLY to the NGOs that provide these services and help break the Help the NGOs that help care by giving cycle of life on the streets. To help the NGOs listed above that work with the CCID, you can make a difference in one of the following ways. responsibly to the homeless and give where the NGOs that it will make a DIFFERENCE provide these snapscan SMS “GIVE” to 38088 services and You can download the to donate R10 towards the NGO partners free SnapScan app with which the CCID works closely in the help break the onto your smartphone Cape Town Central City. cycle of life and SCAN the code An average of R8 is donated depending on the streets. below to donate the on your service provider. For detailed amount of your choice Ts & Cs visit . To help the via your phone. NGOs listed above that work with the CCID, visit our website for more information on the you can make campaign, our NGO partners and *The Cape Town Central City Improvement District (CCID) a difference in other ways you can assist. works closely with the following NGO partners in the Cape Town CBD one of the www.showyoucare.co.za The Carpenter’s Shop Khulisa Social Solutions Straatwerk following ways. Vocational training and Work-based rehabilitation Job rehabilitation projects rehabilitation services for adults for the chronic homeless for street people

The Homestead Ons Plek Youth Solutions Africa An initiative of the Cape Town Residential care and family Residential care and Shelter and skills training Central City Improvement District (CCID) integration for boys reunification processes for girls programmes for adults www.capetownccid.org