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
CHAIRPERSON’S REVIEW ROB KANE The resilience and sheer staying power of the Cape Town Central City Improvement District has never been more evident than in the year under review. It has been nothing short of remarkable. It is therefore fitting that this year the CCID turns 21 in the Mother City’s Central Business District, which has also displayed remarkable resilience to the economic knocks and blows the global pandemic has wrought.
ADAPTING SWIFTLY Here, too, the CCID has triumphantly worked in our downtown, displaying once again a commendable work ethic and ability to adapt swiftly and effectively to circumstances on the ground and provide stability for our stakeholders. The CCID’s teams in its operational departments – Safety & Security, Urban Management and Social Development – are our men (and women!) in the “arena”. In 2020/21, facing the uncertainty of a dangerous pandemic and ever-changing lockdown regulations, they continued to work diligently and with a positive attitude under
Tasso Evangelinos and his team, and the CBD’s businesses and entrepreneurs, can be applauded for “daring greatly” in 2020/2021. I am reminded of the inspirational words of American president Teddy Roosevelt, from a speech
very difficult conditions. As regulations changed, so did
known as “The Man in the Arena”.
Communications, embarked on a wide-reaching national
their strategies. Communications and Finance also went beyond the call of duty to ensure the CCID's success. Communications, with the CCID’s PR agency Atmosphere campaign to promote the CBD economy, while Finance
DARING GREATLY
ensured the CCID once again achieved a clean audit.
“It is not the critic who counts; nor the man who points
COLLABORATION IS KEY
out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs
In this report, our teams reflect on the extraordinary
to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face
challenges they faced in this, our first full Covid-19 year.
is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives
A key theme for all departments is collaboration: the
valiantly; who errs ... because there is no effort without
CCID doesn’t operate in a vacuum but provides top-
error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do
up services to the highest possible standards to those
the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms … who at the
delivered by our primary partners, namely the City of
best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,
Cape Town and the South African Police Service (SAPS).
and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold
To this end, the 300 Public Safety Officers in the Safety
and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
& Security teams worked night and day, patrolling the streets and doing regular joint crime-prevention
Aptly, the late Nelson Mandela handed this speech to Bok
operations with SAPS and City Law Enforcement to
captain François Pienaar just before he led his team onto
reassure workers, business owners, landlords, residents
the field to face the favoured, and fearsome, All Blacks
and visitors – and ultimately ensure a climate conducive
in the 1995 World Cup final. The triumphant result is
to doing business and making investments prevailed.
a cherished part of our history.
Cleaners and other workers in the Urban Management department continued to clean and beautify the CBD,
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