Brendan van der Merwe
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Sep 06
Buttskop Level Crossing Tragedy
Pupils killed at Buttskop crossing remembered FIVE years after 10 pupils – between the ages of 8 and 18 – were killed while on their way to school, their families are still finding it difficult to come to terms with their deaths. The minibus taxi transporting them was hit by a passenger train at a …
Sep 06
Five Years later: Buttskop level crossing victims remembered
25 August 2015 4:44 PM A Memorial Wall was unveiled today to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the death of 10 children at the Buttskop level crossing in Blackheath. The Memorial Wall was erected at the Welmoed Cemetery near Eerste River, as most of the children who died in the accident were buried there. The …
Sep 06
Cleansing Operations
As previously stated, major cleansing operations have taken place on the residential boundaries of Happy Valley and Blackheath and Gaylee during August, where residents litter and throw garden refuse and general waste over their walls and into the public space. 300 Blue bags were filled with litter from these locations in a two week period …
Sep 06
School news in August 2015
Happy Feet Crèche Sing For Africa Grade “R” School Both schools in Happy Valley are functioning very well and they are busy as always with fun learning activities with our little learners. Happy Feet Crèche is at the full capacity as parents return to work after the Winter months. Many of the parents are seasonal …
Sep 06
Emerging Business Programme – Intensive 2-Day Business Strategy Course
Please see the attached document regarding the Emerging Business Programme – Intensive 2-Day Business Strategy Course The Department of Economic Development and Tourism in partnership with the University of the Western Cape will be rolling out a programme focussing on equipping emerging small, medium and micro enterprise owners with the relevant business knowledge and skills …
Jun 03
News – April 2015
The March edition of the Blackheath City Improvement District was slightly delayed due to fact that sometimes good news takes a bit longer to present than expected and some of our most important projects sometimes don’t finish at month end and deserve a bit of extra time so that we can ensure that we can …
Jun 03
Blackheath CID – CCTV and License Plate Recognition (LPR) initiative
Those who have noticed “The eyes of Big Brother” at the entrances to the Blackheath Industrial Area will know that we are now monitoring all the entrances to the Blackheath Industrial Area via CCTV. In Partnership with the City of Cape Town, The South African Police Services, and the locally based Security suppliers, ST3 Security …
Jun 03
The Blackheath Non-Motorised Transport (NMT) initiative
The Blackheath NMT project is well under-way and appears to be progressing well and according to schedule. The new pedestrian routes have successfully taken pedestrian traffic off of the roadways and onto safe and well-made pedestrian walkways that are being well used by the many pedestrians who move through the Blackheath Industrial Area on a …
Jun 03
Road Maintenance – April 2015
The Blackheath CID cleansing team had a very productive month and succeeded in sweeping, mowing and getting rid of weeds and other alien vegetation throughout the area. Their next task is to tidy up the whole of Range Road and to especially look at verge levelling. The Blackheath Industrial Area is slowly but surely improving …
Jun 03
Verge upgrades – April 2015
Verge upgrades are still on-going in the area with Shar Civils still busy with the NMT lane projects and pushing hard to finish up at the end of May. Range Road is in its final stages and there is still a lot of work that needs to be done in School Road. Essential stormwater and …