MaitCID
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Helping the Homeless build a Sustainable Future
Mahatma Gandhi said that the true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members. Unfortunately, as South Africans, we are desensitised in part to the poverty that permeates our ordinary lives. Used to the sight of the radical impact our ever-expanding gap between the haves and have nots…
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Trial By Fire – Fire Safety In Cape Town’s Summer
Cape Town’s fire season occurs from November through to May which are our hottest, and driest months. Together with our beloved south-easterly “Cape Doctor” – which adores clearing our city of pollution – these arid conditions create ideal opportunities for wildfires to spark and quickly rage out of control. From our homes and businesses to…
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Top 10 Tips To Keep Your Store Safe This Festive Season
While many of us see the festive season as a time to kick back and relax, for the retail sector it is the busiest time of the year. With high volumes of high-value stock, seasonal staff and more capital flowing through our premises than any other time of the year staying safe is a definite…
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How to Prepare Your Property For the Festive Season
Here are our top tips to keep your property safe so you can enjoy the festive season
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City Improvement District By-Law & City Improvement District Policy
Have your say on the proposed changes to the City Improvement District By-Law & City Improvement District Policy
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Our Facade Improvement Programme- Building a Better Future
Bestselling entrepreneurial author Jim Rohn once said, “The good things we build – end up building us”. In the Maitland City Improvement District (MAITCID), our streets are no utopia, but at the MAITCID we are committed to collaboratively improving our community. We believe that improvement is contagious – which is why we have initiated our…
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Clean-up of MiCiti corridor
The CID did a clean up of the MyCiti corridor in Koeberg Road. “We are experiencing difficulty with communication between us and the Department of Transport of the City Council in this regard,” said MaitCID manager, Gerhard van Rensburg of Geocentric Urban Management Initially the development would have been ended of with landscaping which was…
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Some of the Public Safety Incidents in Maitland this Month
Assault On 4 February at about 00h36 in the morning an assault was witnessed in Camden Road, where a person from Garden Village was assaulted as he left Tiffany’s Night Club. The injured person was taken to Groote Schuur Hospital by ambulance (see photos). Arrested in possession of stolen property On 6 February at the Camp Road public parking…
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Urban Management Trolley Introduced
The Geocentric Urban Management Trolley Project was initiated in 2017. The aim of the project is to provide urban cleaning and maintenance teams with a platform to improve their daily tasks, assist with moving of equipment and tools and enable recycling while performing their tasks. A few design considerations were introduced into the design of…