Officials pulled the huge mammal through heavy traffic down a busy road along the city's False Bay coastline.
Salvage staff needed an industrial digger to move the 30 metre southern Right Whale, which became stranded on Sunday at Cape Town's Capricorn beach.
City emergency services spokesman Wilfred Solomons-Johannes confirmed the beach had been closed amid fears deadly Great White sharks had entered shallow waters to feed on the carcase.
He said: "The whale was spotted on the beach on Sunday afternoon."
"It had become beached and was dead by the time officials could get to it. The animal had several bits of flesh taken out of it, and it appears it had been bitten by sharks."
He added: "We called in the city's specialist marine rescue team, who used diggers and a lorry to remove the whale. It was heaved onto the back of a truck and taken to a landfill site for disposal."
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