A section of the road was damaged during a Level-9 storm in September 2023 and has been closed to the public since then. Repairs to Cape Town’s storm-battered Kloof Road are finally on the horizon — but residents eager for action are being warned not to expect visible construction until March 2026, when crews are due to move onto the fragile Table Mountain National Park site. Repairs to the key route between the City Bowl and the Atlantic Seaboard are expected to start by March 2026, the City of Cape Town confirmed, ending months of uncertainty over one of the metro’s most frustrating road closures.
The City’s Urban Mobility Directorate says the first two months of 2026 will be dedicated to securing construction permits and approvals required under the project’s environmental management plan, as the route falls inside Table Mountain National Park. Only after this process will full physical repairs begin. Kloof Road, between Kloof Nek Road and Round House Road, has been shut since a Level-9 storm in September 2023 destabilised its supporting embankments.
A second slip in 2024, triggered by heavy winter rainfall, caused further damage and kept the road closed to the public. Environmental approvals in terms of the National Environmental Management Act, along with a Water Use Licence, have already been granted — greenlighting rehabilitation in the protected, environmentally sensitive area. Councillor Rob Quintas, the City’s Mayoral Committee Member for Urban Mobility, stressed both the urgency and complexity of the project.
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