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Spring update & AGM 2025 Save the Date

As the seasons shift from winter to spring, the Beaconvale Improvement District continues its work to keep our urban environment clean, safe and well maintained. This is also the time when we prepare for our Annual General Meeting (AGM 2025), where we reflect on the year’s achievements and look ahead to 2025/26.

We invite all stakeholders to join us for our AGM – an important opportunity to participate in shaping the future of our community. Full details are provided below.

AGM 2025

AGM 2025

Save the Date!

An important event on our annual agenda, the Beaconvale Improvement District AGM is scheduled for Monday, 13 October 2025 at 10:00 at Unit A1, Connaught Park, McGregor Street, Beaconvale. Stakeholders are encouraged to attend.

Only bona fide members may vote on resolutions. Non-members wishing to participate must be registered before Thursday, 2 October 2025.RSVP to info@beaconvalecid.co.za.

Become a Member

To become a member there are a few documents that need to be filled out. Under the Companies Act, the Members’ Register must contain the following information in respect of each member:
(a) name; (b) business, residential or postal address; (c) email address (unless person has declined to provide an email address); and (d) an identifying number unique to that person (e.g. a RSA ID number).

Find these application forms here.

Greening & Urban Maintenance

Over the past months, our teams have been hard at work maintaining and refreshing the Beaconvale area. These projects are aimed at improving the quality of the public environment for all who live, work and visit here.

Our focus has included:

  • Urban cleaning and maintenance – tackling illegal dumping, graffiti removal, gutter and drain cleaning, poster removal and high-pressure sanitising.
  • Greening initiatives – planting, landscaping and maintaining public spaces to create a more welcoming and environmentally friendly urban landscape.
  • Ongoing upgrades – responding to service requests, addressing problem areas, and ensuring that seasonal changes don’t compromise the safety or cleanliness of our streets.

Together, these efforts lay the foundation for a brighter, cleaner and greener spring season.

Spring updates from BVID

In Beaconvale, recent projects have included large-scale deweeding and grass cutting, as well as gutter and drain cleaning to prevent blockages from winter rainfall. The team has also addressed illegal dumping and graffiti removal, ensuring public spaces remain safe and welcoming.

A major highlight was the Brentford Street upgrade project, where extensive work was carried out to improve the streetscape and maintain the surrounding area with a “pop-up park”. These efforts, supported by ongoing poster removal and targeted sanitising of public spaces, contribute to a cleaner, greener Beaconvale for residents, businesses and visitors.

City Updates

Switch to eBilling before 31 December 2025

The City of Cape Town is phasing out paper bills, with all municipal accounts to be sent by email from 1 January 2026. To switch to eBilling, simply send your account number and email address to Revenue.Eservices@capetown.gov.za or via SMS to 31223. More than 475 000 residents have already made the move, enjoying faster, more efficient and environmentally friendly billing. Customers without email access can still receive paper bills by contacting the City’s Call Centre on 0860 103 089 for assistance.

Building a Cleaner, Greener Cape Town – The City’s New Waste Strategy

The City of Cape Town has launched its new Waste Strategy, a long-term roadmap to deliver sustainable, affordable and future-fit waste services for all residents and businesses. With illegal dumping, landfill reliance and growing urban waste challenges, the strategy sets out clear goals to improve data and technology use, drive behaviour change, strengthen partnerships and close service gaps.

Centred on three pillars – optimising existing services, minimising waste to landfill, and maximising service offerings – the strategy calls on everyone to play their part in building a cleaner, greener Cape Town.

Download the full Waste Strategy

Electricity Tariff Reform – What’s New

From 1 July 2025, as part of the new municipal financial year, customers may notice changes to electricity tariffs and the way items appear on their municipal accounts. These reforms are designed to ensure sustainable service delivery into the future while continuing to provide price relief where possible.

For more information, please see the City’s electricity price relief overview pamphlet.

View the Pamphlet

Update: The City of Cape Town Draft Budget 2025-2026 comment period is open until 13 June

June 2025 update:

NOTICE OF EXTENSION: DRAFT BUDGET 2025/26 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION PERIOD

Following thorough consideration of all inputs received, the City has proposed several key amendments. Interested parties may view the draft budget in full and comment on the amendments between 28 May and 13 June 2025. Should any comments made during the initial public participation period not have been addressed, you are welcome to comment again. Please visit www.capetown.gov.za for the full amended draft budget documents and any supporting material. The residential calculator has also been updated to reflect the proposed amendments.

Visit www.capetown.gov.za/HaveYourSay to comment

April 2025 article:

The City of Cape Town Draft Budget 2025-2026 is available for comment until 16:30 on Friday, 2 May 2025; and until Thursday, 17 April 2025 for the proposed amendments to the 2022-2027 Integrated Development Plan (IDP).

Total Budget – R84,1 bn for 2025/26

A budget of R84,1 billion will be spent in the metropolitan area to ensure that services are maintained, improved and expanded, that capital projects are rolled out and that the IDP is implemented.

Budget Summary & Documentation

The City of Cape Town’s budget reflects its key policy decisions and priorities, determines rates increases and indicates where money will be spent on programmes and services. View the full Draft Budget 2025/26 with associated documentation on the City’s website. For a summary of the budget, see the presentation and the advert (English | Afrikaans | isiXhosa).

The documents can also be accessed on the City website from 28 March 2025 at www.capetown.gov.za/budget.

Continue reading Update: The City of Cape Town Draft Budget 2025-2026 comment period is open until 13 June

The City of Cape Town draft Budget 2018-2019 comment period is open

The City of Cape Town’s draft Budget 2018-2019 is available for comment until 16:30 on Friday, 4 May 2018.

A budget of R 49.1 billion will be spent in the metropolitan area to ensure that services are maintained, improved and expanded, that capital projects are rolled out and that the Integrated Development Plan (IDP) is implemented.

The effect of the unprecedented and continuing drought is a strong theme and has influenced many factors, including tariff increases and reviews in tariff structure. 

2016-2017 Budget highlights:

Created 45 370 EPWP job opportunities; invested R 3.7 billion (2015/16: R 3.3 billion) in repairs and maintenance; installed 1 747 subsidised electricity connections; provided 676 new taps and 2 085 new toilets to informal settlements; achieved 69,86% employment rate of people from employment equity target groups at the highest levels of management.
• Review the draft 2018/2019 Budget documents
• Comment online and read the common draft Budget FAQs
• You can see what an existing tariff will look like under the new draft Budget by reviewing Annexure 6 and the various documents by Directorate.
• For a comprehensive overview of the tabled budget and proposed changes, please read Annexure A.

Highlights from Annexure A:

• An allowance of R 76 million for indigent relief.
• Introduction of a fixed service charge for both water and electricity.
• Planned capital expenditure includes R 5 billion for Informal Settlements, Water & Waste. Services, R 1.7 billion for the Transport & Urban Development Authority and R 1.1 billion for Energy.
• Simplifying the steps of the water and electricity tariff from six to four.
The proposed average rates and tariff increases for 2018-19 are shown the table below. 

Important things to remember:
• The City does not make any profit on the sale of water or electricity.
• The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) approved an average percentage price increase of 5.23% to Eskom for the 2018-19 financial year, which translates to a 7.32% increase for municipalities.
Frequently asked questions:
• Rates and valuation FAQs
• Electricity tariff FAQs