Wednesday, April 17, 2013

City of Cape Town spends R1 million to clean graffiti

Loyiso Langeni
17 April 2013

The City of Cape Town officially launched the graffiti clean-up operations in Lavender Hill. 

The operation is part of Operation Choke which was launched last week.

Mayoral Committee Member for Safety and Security JP Smith said they are urging community members to deal with indications of disorder to keep the city safe and clean.

Smith added that a 110 people have been working since February cleaning up graffiti in some of the most damaged infected neighbourhoods across the city.

Smith added that they have cleaned just about 13,260

square metres of gang tagging.

Smith further added Communities are getting jobs cleaning graffiti, the city is spending about R1.3 million on their job creation campaign.

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