As Garden Cities enters its second century, the company, along with millions of other enterprises around the world finds itself facing challenges, not only to livelihoods, but to life itself.

The company is a survivor and in its hundred years, through good and bad times, has built homes for many thousands of Capetonians in carefully planned and serviced suburbs.  This is the work that put it at the forefront of responsible development in the Western Cape.

Now, with severely restricted financial conditions largely as a result of the on-going threat of the viral pandemic, Garden Cities, like its peers, has to reboot, to create a near-normal, to continue, somehow, to serve the increasing number of home-seekers across the economic spectrum.

As a non-profit company Garden Cities uses a considerable part of its earnings to go far beyond planning suburbs and building houses and infrastructure to make the lives of residents easier, more productive and healthier.  Homes in a Garden Cities suburb give their owners a very special sense of worth and achievement and reflect the care and ambition for excellence that has hallmarked the company from its very foundation.

It’s not only within the suburbs it creates, but also in the wider environment, that Garden Cities strives to improve lives.  Specific among its efforts is an initiative that serves to improve education throughout the entire metropole and beyond -  the provision so far, of more than 104 school halls now at an individual cost of over R8 million.  The halls are advocated by academics as essential tools without which holistic education can’t be delivered.