Statement by Cape Town Mayor, Geordin Hill-Lewis

Today we’re starting off with a major city-wide Clean-Up Campaign in Mitchells Plain Town Centre.

Over the course of the next couple of months, I invite every Capetonian to join me on this campaign in various parts of our beautiful city and do their part too to Keep Cape Town Clean Together.

In the January Adjustment Budget, we have allocated R5 million for a City-wide clean-up campaign. Residents deserve clean communities and I hope that with a consistent educational campaign we can turn the tide and change behaviour.

More than 180 000 tonnes of waste is cleared annually from illegal dumping hotspots city-wide. Illegal dumping costs the City more than R300 million, and this is why a sustained focus to change behaviour is so vital.

Keeping our City clean is a high priority because a clean space creates openness and opportunity.

Caption 1: Ward 116 Cllr Solomon Philander prepares to lift dirt into one of the refuse bags held by Alderman Twigg, with Mayor Hill-Lewis sweeping.

Caption 2: From left Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis, Alderman Twigg, Mayoral Committee Member for Urban Waste Management, and Ward 116 Cllr Solomon Philander clean a field at Town Centre with Solid Waste staff.

Source: City Of Cape Town