Anyone with a little bit of common sense will understand that you can not allow ball games in a public place for obvious reasons. No debate ot by laws should even be required.

where are capetonians supposed to enjoy some football, while outside?

the city does not provide any public spaces for football, it fails dismally by comparison to international cities like london, paris, new york, buenos aires and many others. its no wonder our football teams perform so terribly on the international stage. how could football ever imporve if amateurs, kids, teenagers and all other lovers of the game cannot have a kick around in a public open space like sea point promenade.

Safa i hope you reading this and putting pressure on the council to withdraw this obsurd issue from the discussion table. this would never be raised against cricket or rugby and its no wonder that in these sports we are world class. SA stop treating soccer like the orphan child and give it the suppport it deserves. we have more raw talent than most nations and we can be world class one day.
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hassan

JP smith's submission that the soccer players are ruining the grass on the Promenade is dead wrong. Every night for years there soccer games have been played there, adding to the great ambiance of the Promenade at sunset. Apart from the havoc created by the Cape Town Marathon, it is the City Council's slap dash maintenance work done along the strip in front of the SABC. They have been digging up trenches to lay new cables and simply didn't return in time to lay new grass. Now it is summer and very hard to regrow grass on public places. It can be done but with proper boundaries set up etc. Don't blame the soccer players JP; they simply use the lawns for what it is intended for.

GF.A - you are a silly little child seeking attention. Not everyone who opposes what the CT Municipalty is doing, an ANC cadre or supporter. Grow up. Why do people like you bring an ANC even where it is irrelevant? You are implying that anyone who is not a DA supporter, nor supports by-laws from a DA run Municipality, is an ANC cadre. Really now!!!

You are in serious need of therapy to get rid of your ANC hatred.

Before you label me an ANC cadre; I agree with the enforcement of the by-law by the CT Municipality. You do not need to agree with a by-law or law to abide by it.

Nothing stupid about By-Laws, they are the building blocks of our civilized society and upheld for our protection. Ignore small problems and they will lead to larger problems, like loitering and selling of illicit substances etc. Time to reverse the decay that has affected our society. Obeying and respecting the law must happen even if it means enforcment with stiff fines or a night in Jail.

Anonymous - would you still say the non enforcement of the bylaws were "stupid" if your little baby child got hit square in the face by a soccer ball traveliling at 60 plus KM/H or if a cricket ball went through the windscreen of your precious car, your only mode of transpor for you and your family? Or is it rather a case of you being one of those ANC cadres sour about losing the election who will find ANYTHING negative to say about the WC and City of Cape Town? Perhaps you are one of those who were so miffed about getting fined for parking illegally while you specifically expected special treatment becuase you just "had" to see the new moon on Sea Point Promenade? Which bunch of sour grapes is it Anonymarse

No wonder the Cape Town Government cannot deliver a decent service at there offices, because they busy protecting STUPID by-laws for grass. "CAPE TOWN WORKS FOR YOU"