Understanding Homelessness in Cape Town

Introduction Travelling around Cape Town one will, without a doubt, notice that there are more people living on the streets than ever before. As food prices, lack of jobs and petrol prices rise, more people are losing the places they call their homes and find...

Keeping Muizenberg Clean

Keeping Muizenberg Clean The role of the cleaning team within the Muizenberg Improvement District is to provide a street cleaning service in conjunction with the Solid Waste team from the City of Cape Town. We clean most of the streets within the MID area; as well as...

IN SEARCH OF A SAFE SPACE

IN SEARCH OF A SAFE SPACE The Muizenberg Improvement District (MID) met with Cape Town mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis and his team on the 9th of June to visit some potential sites in Muizenberg for a homeless safe space. We have been working over the last few years to find...

MID June Newsletter

MID June Newsletter Dear MID Members, Looking back to where we were this time last year – still in hard lockdown with no idea when we would ‘return to normal’ – I feel myself breathing a sigh of relief. We have come a long way in 12 months: vaccines are rolling out...

BIG News From MID + 2021 Goals

BIG News From MID + 2021 Goals Dear MID Members, As we forge on into 2021 still plagued by the ‘Curse of Covid’, the above quote, for me, best describes our Muizenberg community. Businesses have been battered, yet most continue to endure. Residents have felt the...