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The City of Cape Town’s Corporate Services Directorate proposes to spend R431 million on capital projects in the next financial year to ensure the City is responsive and adaptable in times of constant change, and can deliver on its mandate. Read more below:

The City’s Invested in Hope Budget 2025/26 was tabled at its Council meeting last month, and is now available for public comment. 

The Corporate Services Directorate is best described as the City’s nerve centre as it is the hub of information and knowledge management and provides support to other directorates to deliver on their mandates. The directorate manages the effective human resourcing of the City administration and the portfolio of City facilities, such as corporate buildings, clinics, libraries, fire stations, municipal courts, depots, and so forth. 

‘We are also responsible for the City’s interaction with the public, where the main priority is to make the administration more accessible, transparent, responsive and accountable to our residents. Our Mobile Office programme and Basket of Services count among our most important initiatives where we take the City’s services to our communities, to where they live. Wherever the Mobile Office visits, residents have direct access to officials to help them with enquiries about rates, sewage, electricity, water, refuse collection and account enquiries. 

‘With the Basket of Services, residents have the opportunity to engage directly with officials from a number of City departments – be it to register for a housing opportunity, or get assistance with applications for bursaries, internships, and apprenticeships. These visits are carefully planned and hosted at a City facility within the community. In so doing, we are making the City more accessible and saving residents transport costs,’ said the City’s Mayoral Committee Member for Corporate Services, Alderman Theresa Uys.  

The main capital projects for the new financial year are as follows:

• R208 million for new fleet and to replace aged plant equipment
• R115 million for the Core Application Refresh project to upgrade the City’s core applications
• R37 million for the installation of broadband infrastructure at City facilities
• R29 million for the upgrade of City facilities

The directorate’s operational budget for 2024/25 is R3,7 billion to ensure the City’s core business continues and that other directorates can deliver on their mandates. 

Counting among the operational expenses are:

• managing nearly 6 000 vehicles and plant equipment
• managing 159 City buildings; 120 clinics; 102 libraries and 38 Early Childhood Development Centres
• managing 31 fire stations, 19 Metro Police offices, 31 traffic centres, and 54 Law Enforcement offices
• managing 11 municipal courts
• information systems and technology
• the interface with residents such as the City’s Call Centre
• training, and 
• support services to Councillors, Council, and Subcouncils

‘The directorate manages a fleet of nearly 6 000 vehicles and plant equipment. This is no easy task as the fleet needs to be available at all times, repaired and maintained, managed, fuelled, tracked and monitored. 

‘Many of our aged fleet items have reached the end of their economic life and must be replaced, thus, we are setting aside funding to accelerate the fleet replacement programme. Similarly, the buildings under our watch need to be maintained, refurbished, and managed so that residents have access to dignified spaces wherever they may go to do business with the City.

‘I encourage residents to please peruse the City’s draft budget, and to submit comments before 2 May 2025, this is an important opportunity to make your voice heard,’ said Alderman Uys.

Issued by the City of Cape Town