C A P E TOW N C E N T R A L C I T Y I M P R OV E M E N T D I S T R I C T N P C
LEFT: CCID Urban Managment, from left: Kally Benito (manager) and Carlisle Marankey (precinct manager); members of the Gardening Services team.
URBAN MANAGEMENT Providing a clean city centre despite the exodus of workers and visitors from the CBD, maintaining its infrastructure and initiating beautification projects was Urban Management’s focus in the year under review. COVID CHALLENGES •
Ensuring the safety of over 40 team members,
positive Covid-19 cases in the year under review. •
With less foot traffic at night, 12 night shift cleaners
who clean and maintain the CBD daily from
were moved to the day shift. This increased the
08h00 to 17h00, so they don’t contract Covid-19.
tally to 40 cleaners per day shift and allowed Urban Management to cope with additional demands
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Managing overflowing bins due to waste collection
and to concentrate on detailed cleaning such as
delays caused by positive Covid-19 cases at the City of
washing green street-pole refuse bins and scrubbing
Cape Town’s Solid Waste Management Department’s
around them to remove dirt and sticky substances.
various depots, particularly in July 2020. • •
Introducing a Sanitising Squad to regularly disinfect
Increasing the frequency of cleaning around waste
and sanitise high-touch surfaces in the CBD to help
collection points and attending to litter spilling out of bags
reduce the risk of Covid-19 and other infections
(torn open by people searching for recyclable materials)
(see below).
and bins.
KEY PANDEMIC PROJECTS •
Repairing broken and damaged CCID cigarettebutt bins during the cigarette ban, which prompted
Disinfecting the CBD
people to empty the cylinders to look for stompies. Urban Management spearheaded efforts
STRATEGIES & SUCCESSES
to contain the spread of Covid-19 in the Central City by introducing a Sanitising Squad in July 2020. The
To deal with challenges, Urban Management revised
team traversed the CBD every weekday from 08h00
its cleaning deployment strategy in the CBD due to
to 17h00, deep-cleaning the many high-touch
Covid-19 curfews, taking the following measures:
surfaces in the city centre including pedestrian buttons, railings, benches, bollard tops, the top part
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Implementing daily Covid-19 safety protocols – such
of electrical boxes, and the lids of green street-pole
as social distancing, the issuing and correct use of
refuse bins. Using high-pressure spray backpacks and
PPE and temperature checks – to keep its teams safe.
squirt bottles, the team used 1 620 litres of 70 % +
As a result, Urban Management didn’t experience any
alcohol-based sanitiser in the year under review.
