August 2021 - V&A Solve

27 August 2021 SMME Cluster

A new community platform

The Pandemic has been desperately challenging for small business owners. With the very first COVID-19 lockdown, anticipating the global slowdown that was coming, the Waterfront shifted its small business support...

27 August 2021 SMME Cluster

SMME community platform

To support SMMEs across the precinct, the Waterfront has built a virtual Community platform. The intention is to facilitate stronger connections between tenants, peer-to-peer learning, and access to current news...

27 August 2021 Featured Posts, SMME Cluster

Enabling tomorrow

The V&A Waterfront has a long commitment to enterprise development. It showed up in the early days, in initiatives such as the Red and Blue sheds; and has matured into...

13 August 2021 Featured Posts, Ocean Cluster

The plastics crisis

At the second Ocean Cluster session, held in July 2021, the focus was on one of the themes that had emerged in the first session: the impact of plastics on...

13 August 2021 Food Cluster

V&A in the value chain

At the first Food Cluster session in April 2021, the focus was on how an entity like the V&A Waterfront, which operates at the consumption end of the food value...

13 August 2021 Ocean Cluster

Human-wildlife intersect

At the first Ocean Cluster session in June 2021, the focus was on the intersect between human activity and marine wildlife. In 2021, the theme for World Oceans Day –...

13 August 2021 Food Cluster

Why a food cluster?

More than 60% of households in Cape Town were unable, even before the Pandemic, to afford an adequately nutritious diet. This even though there are over 45 000 ha of...

13 August 2021 Ocean Cluster

Why an ocean cluster?

The founding philosophy of the Waterfront was to connect the people of Cape Town with the sea. The Waterfront is keenly aware of its role and responsibility in sustaining this...

13 August 2021 General

Shared value comes alive

The V&A Waterfront is a mixed-use, nearly 53-hectare neighbourhood that is home to independent retailers and global retail brands; commercial properties, designers and artists and entrepreneurs; residential accommodation and hospitality...

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