Meet The Team

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The Century City Property Owners’ Association, functioning as a mini municipality, is responsible for the management of the entire Century City Precinct. Our staff complement is around 120, with the majority made up of our various landscaping and maintenance and infrastructure teams

Safety & Security Team

The division is overall responsible for the Safety and Security of Century City. It Includes managing a 24/7 security operations centre and all related technology deployed inside and outside the centre. All tactical deployments of response personnel and foot and bicycle patrols are handled in the division.

The safety and security team manages all medical and fire emergencies in public spaces and supports private institutions in these efforts until the arrival of the CoCT emergency services. The division coordinates with the CoCT on all security and related matters regarding the event in Century City and supports the city in enforcing city by-laws. Traffic management is also one of the safety and security division’s core functions supporting the CoCT dedicated traffic team to Century City.

Staff Compliment: Consists of over 100 security staff members and a traffic officer team.

Facilities & Infrastructure Team

Facilities & Infrastructure, made up of the Infrastructure & Buildings Department, Maintenance Department, Stores Management Department.

Streetlight maintenance, pump repairs, treated effluent water management for irrigation & green buildings, CCPOA vehicle and aquatic fleet maintenance, bulk services maintenance, building maintenance, Infrastructure repairs and painting, site cleanliness and waste management, stock management, CCPOA depot management, Special Projects management, close interaction with the various City Of Cape Town departments.

Staff Compliment: Approx 35 staff members

Environmental, Horticulture & Sporting Codes

Overseeing the functionalities of the various sections, budgets, staff and projects.

Dealing with all matters environmentally related. Liaison with residents, private POAs and businesses on environmental matters, queries and advise. Creating awareness on environmental issues and partaking in/presenting environmental awareness days, events, forums, conferences, etc. Engaging with various relevant stakeholders in the field on environmental management, nature conservation, water quality, waste management, environmental education, eco-tourism, landscaping and horticulture, and sustainability, to foster healthy partnerships to promote sustainable environmental practices.

Promoting and implementing the principles of a SMART Environment Sustainability, e.g. through expanding common areas/parks, introducing new technologies, the use of renewable resources, reducing our carbon footprint, promoting citizen science, etc.

Dealing with the various sporting clubs and codes making use of common areas in Century City, including bootcamp, touchies, Century City canoe, Century City sup, Century City athletics, parkrun, dragonboats, etc. Promoting sport and sports facilities in the precinct, as we as the establishment of new clubs, e.g. tennis, etc. Facilitating events on common areas, such as sporting events, birthday parties, corporate events, team building, etc.

Staff Compliment: approx 75 members

Intaka Island Team

Landscaping Team

Eco Centre – Eco Centre Manager

Running a full time environmental education program to over 170 different schools from across the Western Cape. Venue hire of an Activity Centre, Lapa and Energy Cube Room for birthday parties, corporate events, training, etc. Hosting events such as a Winter Night Market, Fathers’ day sleepover, full moon hike and other educational programs linked to an annual environmental calendar. Providing a worldclass Eco Tourism facility with over 35 000 both local and overseas visitors.

Intaka Island Nature Conservation & Waste Management

Management of the Intaka Island Nature Conservation Site. Overseeing the propagation program of the CCPOA Nursery on Intaka, which supplies in-house plants to both the Intaka fynbos restoration program and the horticultural planting program. Doing active vegetation restoration through planting and seed sowing. Fire management, alien vegetation clearing, data collection & monitoring e.g. fish surveys, camera trapping, fixed photo plot monitoring, etc. Facilitating animal rescues and rehabilitation with other NGOs. Maintenance of visitor infrastructure e.g. bird hides, pathways, etc. and cells of wetland. Partaking in/presenting environmental open & awareness days.

Management of the CCPOA inhouse recycle waste area where we deal with garden refuge (from horticulture), aquatic vegetation (from canals) and general waste (from infrastructure); 2 refuge rooms for businesses around Central Park located at Esplanade and Park lane, and the Drop and Go facility next to Porsche. The precinct generates an annual average of 12 000kg of general waste, of which 75% is recycled off site. Garden and aquatic waste is also recycled off site and later added as compost to CCPOA gardens, as part of the sustainable re-use of resources

Canal Maintenance – Canal Maintenance Supervisor

Maintenance of the CC waterways, though harvesting of aquatic plants with large and small harvesters, maintenance of canal verge vegetation and daily litter pickups / removing of foreign objects such as shopping trolleys, etc. Upkeep of water features, e.g. Quays, CCUS, Ratanga Park. Ensuring water quality of canals through treatment programs such as installing barley bay bags, chemical treatments, etc.

Horticulture & Landscaping

The upkeep and revamp of all natural common areas in the precinct. Ongoing weeding, composting, fertilizing and revamping of over 23 000m2 gardens, mowing of 51 000m2 lawned areas e.g. medians, circles, vacant plots, road reserves and pruning of all indigenous trees and hedges on common areas throughout the precinct. Pest control, removal of invasive exotic plant species and indigenous tree planting program. Maintenance of Central Park sports field, Manhattan- and Ratanga Parks. Liaison with private POAs wrt private landscaping standards and other roleplayers and landowners such as the City of Cape Town.

Marketing Team

The Marketing Department is responsible for the management and implementation of all brand and marketing activities and events of the CCPOA – this includes Century City, Century City Arts Foundation and Intaka Island. We play a vital role in promoting the business and mission of the precinct. Our social media and digital marketing enable us to connect with our audience, grow our audience and build credible relationships. We conduct customer and market research that helps us define target markets and opportunities and helps us understand how our products and services are perceived and where we need to improve on.

The marketing department is heavily involved in various events, sports club initiatives and community activities.

Finance & Admin Team

The finance and admin team is the backbone of CCPOA and in charge of all administration and financial matters. They ensure that there are checks and balances in all aspects of our business be it Budgets, Debtors, Creditors, Cash Flow, HR or tax matters.