{"id":975452,"date":"2022-02-04T00:16:08","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T00:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/04\/city-of-cape-town-launches-a-cleanup-campaign\/"},"modified":"2022-02-04T00:16:08","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T00:16:08","slug":"city-of-cape-town-launches-a-cleanup-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/04\/city-of-cape-town-launches-a-cleanup-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Cape Town launches a cleanup campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/096ec98f-78c4-5f6a-a4d8-c4c1886ac074&#038;operation=CROP&#038;offset=0x10&#038;resize=412x232.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div><!--sse--><\/p>\n<p>Cape Town &#8211; City of Cape Town mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis launched a city-wide cleanup campaign on Wednesday in a bid to create clean communities around the city.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign kicked off in Mitchell\u2019s Plain, where the mayor swept the streets in support of various ward councillors and residents.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cToday, we\u2019re starting with a major city-wide Clean-Up Campaign in Mitchell\u2019s Plain Town Centre. Throughout 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 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,\u201d Hill-Lewis said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the mayor, more than 180 000 tons of waste is cleared annually from illegal dumping hotspots city-wide. He says that illegal dumping costs the City more than R300 million.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"RelatedArticlescss__StyledRelatedArticles-sc-10g88yu-0 ezIKFV\">\n<h2><span>MORE ON THIS<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cKeeping our city clean is a high priority because a clean space creates openness and opportunity. The vision I\u2019ve spoken about for this beautiful City is to create a sense of civic pride and have all residents get involved in looking after their communities to ensure that the City is neat and tidy for all,\u201d the mayor added.<\/p>\n<p>The grassroots political party, Cape Coloured Congress, commended the mayor for launching this campaign, particularly in Mitchells Plain, while also urging the municipality to do more for the disadvantaged communities in Cape Town.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new mayor has done in a few months what his predecessors have ignored for decades. It was due to the prompting of the Cape Coloured Congress to the City of Cape Town to pay attention to the Town Centre that brought this about,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cWhile the mayor is definitely an upgrade of what came before him, we demand more from him. We remind the mayor that the Cape Flats is his voting base and that \u2018coloured\u2019 people don\u2019t reside in Mitchell\u2019s Plain alone. He needs to show the same commitment to the rest of the Cape Flats and every other suburb where the long-suffering people continue to eke out an existence,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n<p><strong id=\"strong-28faf8a6993c56bdb8d34c93d6fa7eed\">IOL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--\/sse--><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Town &#8211; City of Cape Town mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis launched a city-wide cleanup campaign on Wednesday in a bid to create clean communities around the city. The campaign kicked off in Mitchell\u2019s Plain, where the mayor swept the streets in support of various ward councillors and residents. \u201cToday, we\u2019re starting with a major city-wide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":975453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3894],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-975452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}