The Cape Town city council has set aside R2-million to fund the baboon monitoring programme on the Peninsula, it announced on Thursday.
The decision by the mayoral committee follows growing tension over interactions between baboons and humans.
Much of the city borders on the Table Mountain National Park, where several troops roam freely.
Baboons, who raid bins and houses, are regularly found shot, and this week a city newspaper showed photographs of a female that was electrocuted on powerlines in the suburb of Tokai.
There has been uncertainty over the continued financing of the ten-year-old monitor programme, in which minders watch over troops and keep them away from the urban edge.
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The city said in a media release that the money was being provided as an interim solution, subject to the mid-year budget review in December.
"In the meantime, the city, together with Sanparks and CapeNature, is working towards a sustainable, long term solution," it said.
As part of this process, the city would host a baboon expert workshop at the Civic Centre on July 2.
"It will seek to define the most effective strategy for baboon management in the Cape Peninsula and to determine how best to implement it," the city said. - Sapa
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