Explore Joburg with our social media team
01 April 2017
Our social media team is exploring Joburg at The Sheds, 1 Fox Street in Marshalltown where London based muso Tom Misch will be performing...Read more
IDP meeting ends in chaos in Ivory Park
04 April 2017
Apublic engagement on the City of Johannesburg’s 2017-2021 Integrated Development Plan (IDP) and the proposed R56-billion 2017-2018 Budget ended in chaos in Ivory Park in Region A on Monday, April 3, after unruly community members, mostly youths dressed in ANC colours, stormed the podium and forced Member of the Mayoral Committee for Public Safety Cllr Michael Sun to cut short his speech...Read more
Residents demand delivery during IDP meeting
05 April 2017
The time for asking the City of Johannesburg to deliver services is long overdue.
Now is the time to demand that the services be delivered...Read more
Jozi residents welcome clinics’ extended hours
05 April 2017
More Johannesburg residents now have increased access to quality primary healthcare services after Johannesburg Executive Mayor Cllr Herman Mashaba introduced extended operating hours at five more public clinics across the city on Monday April 3...Read more
MMC saves the day after residents disrupt IDP review
05 April 2017
Cllr Nico de Jager, the Johannesburg Member of the Mayoral Committee who oversees Region C, is to schedule an urgent meeting with relevant stakeholders to address service delivery issues raised by Zandspruit residents during a review of the Integrated Development Plan (IDP) in Boskruin on the West Rand on Tuesday April 4...Read more
Protea South residents give City a long IDP shopping list
06 April 2017
Water and electricity cuts; termination of the Jozi@Work programme; leaking sewer and water pipes; potholes; and the lack of housing, proper roads and transport system, street lighting, recreational parks, swimming pools and libraries featured prominently in a Region D Integrated Development Plan (IDP) public participation meeting at the Protea South Multipurpose Centre in Soweto on Wednesday April 5...Read more
Johannesburg – the home of Africa’s dollar millionaires
06 April 2017
Johannesburg is not only the City of Gold but it is also home to the largest number of dollar millionaires in Africa...Read more
Whose IDP is this anyway, residents ask City officials
07 April 2017
Soweto residents questioned City of Johannesburg officials on whether the Integrated Development Plan (IDP) adequately and accurately represented their needs, aspirations and expectations...Read more
Region spends R90-million on projects prioritised in IDP
10 April 2017
The City of Johannesburg has spent nearly R90-million to complete and upgrade 10 projects in Region B that were high on the list of demands made by residents during an Integrated Development Plan (IDP) meeting in the 2015-2016 financial year...Read more
Pertinent issues left out of draft IDP, claim residents
10 April 2017
Hundreds of residents of Discovery and surrounding areas in Roodepoort have told City of Johannesburg officials and elected public representatives that they are unhappy with the draft 2017-2018 Integrated Development Plan (IDP) as they feel it has left out pertinent issues affecting their region...Read more
Violence ends IDP meeting
10 April 2017
Ameeting called to look into the draft 2017-2018 Integrated Development Plan (IDP) at the Hillbrow Recreation Centre in the City of Johannesburg’s Region F on Friday night was abandoned after proceedings were disrupted by an unruly mob...Read more
Power failure fails to stop Braamfischerville IDP meeting
11 April 2017
City of Johannesburg officials had to be assisted by the use of cellphone light to complete a 2017-2018 Integrated Development Plan (IDP) presentation after the Braamfischerville Multipurpose Centre was plunged into darkness following a power failure shortly after the start of a public consultation meeting last night (Monday April 10)...Read more
Service delivery on a roll in Zandspruit, Cosmo City
11 April 2017
The City of Johannesburg’s Region C Director, Mlamleli Belot, at the weekend brought residents of Cosmo City and Zandspruit up to speed with a number of service delivery projects being undertaken or are in the pipeline in their respective areas...Read more
Ivory Park residents declare war on litter
12 April 2017
More than 100 residents of Ivory Park, north of Johannesburg, on Tuesday April 11 rolled up their sleeves to rid vast swathes of the township of litter threatening their environment and making their neighbourhood an eyesore...Read more
We need heritage sites in Sophiatown, IDP meeting told
13 April 2017
The City of Johannesburg’s Region B is one of a few with the least number of service delivery challenges. It is also a region with a fast-paced population growth, low crime rate, relatively high levels of development and growing urbanisation trends, mainly as a result of an increasing student population...Read more
City outlines IDP projects to improve Region F suburbs
14 April 2017
The City of Johannesburg has plans to rid Region F of crime and traffic congestion and accelerate service delivery through the Integrated Development Plan (IDP)...Read more
Business embraces plans to revitalise the inner city
18 April 2017
The Johannesburg Business Forum has thrown its weight behind the City of Johannesburg’s efforts to revitalise the inner city to make it investor friendly so it can unlock economic growth and create jobs...Read more
Disruptions fail to halt regional IDP summit
19 April 2017
The City of Joburg is laying criminal charges against ANC councillors following the violent disruption of an Integrated Development Plan (IDP) summit in Midrand last night,” said Johannesburg Executive Mayor Cllr Herman Mashaba...Read more
JMPD nabs more than 800 drunk drivers over Easter
20 April 2017
The City of Johannesburg has expressed concern following the arrest of 815 drunk drivers over the Easter weekend.
The number of arrested drunk motorists this Easter represents a 2.2% increase over the 797 apprehended during the same period last year...Read more
Joburg Water hands 30 youths key to employment
20 April 2017
Johannesburg Water, the City of Johannesburg’s water and sanitation entity, has provided 30 unemployed youths with an opportunity to gain skills in the sector in which it operates through its Youth Development Learnership programme...Read more
Scores of matric learners attend City’s career expo
21 April 2017
Grade 12 learners from three high schools in Soweto were put within touching distance of their future when the City of Johannesburg hosted a career exhibition at the Diepkloof Community Hall this week...Read more
Axe us if we don’t deliver, Mayor tells IDP summit
24 April 2017
Johannesburg Executive Mayor, Herman Mashaba, on Saturday April 22 boldly told the city’s residents to vote his administration out should it fail to deliver on its promises...Read more
City aids Rugby transformation
28 April 2017
The call to transform South African rugby “against all odds” was intensified at a gala dinner in honour of Soweto Rugby Union (SRU) co-founder Sanele Mdakane and former player Teboho Mokoena at the Stay City Hotel in Berea, Johannesburg, last night (Thursday April 27)...Read more
Metrobus trebles its service on the OR Tambo Airport route
28 April 2017
Travelling between the Johannesburg city centre and OR Tambo International Airport has never been so convenient, easy and affordable...Read more
Orange Grove residents slam poor state of parks
04 April 2017
The parlous state of parks and sports facilities in Orange Grove in the City of Johannesburg’s Region E came under sharp criticism at a public meeting looking into the Integrated Development Plan (IDP) and Budget at the Jabula Recreation Centre in Sandringham on Monday April 3...Read more
IDP hears that things are not fine in Finetown
04 April 2017
Residents of Finetown in the City of Johannesburg’s Region G expressed their dissatisfaction and frustrations with the “slow pace of service delivery” during a 2017-2021 Integrated Development Plan (IDP) and 2017-2018 Budget outreach meeting at the Finetown Multipurpose Centre last night (Monday April 3)...Read more
JMPD to get tough on errant Easter road users, Mayor warns
05 April 2017
Johannesburg Metro Police Department (JMPD) officers will be out in full force over the Easter weekend in a bid to put the skids on fatalities and injuries on the city’s roads...Read more
Help City to work for you, MMC pleads at IDP meeting
05 April 2017
Member of the Mayoral Committee for Community Development Cllr Nonhlanhla Sifumba has urged Soweto residents to pay their rates and taxes to make it easier for the City of Johannesburg to deliver on its obligations...Read more
Rabie Ridge residents vent their anger at IDP meeting
06 April 2017
In Rabie Ridge we don’t have a clinic; what we have is a shack called a clinic.”
With these emotive words, local resident Rex Mawila summed up the levels of the ratepayers’ frustrations over the lack or poor state of public facilities in this sprawling Region A suburb...Read more
Mayor launches R25-million electricity project at Finetown, Meriting
06 April 2017
More than 900 households at two informal settlements in Region G, south of Johannesburg, are to benefit from a R25-million electrification project being jointly undertaken by City Power, the City of Johannesburg’s electricity entity, and national power utility Eskom...Read more
Pikitup in fresh bid to promote recycling
07 April 2017
Pikitup, the City of Johannesburg’s waste management entity, has placed 48 large refuse bins at strategic areas at the busy Noord Street taxi rank in the Johannesburg CBD to assess the level of recycling awareness among commuters...Read more
City officials urged to roll out more recreational facilities
07 April 2017
Residents of the City of Johannesburg’s Region G have vented their anger and frustrations at the municipality for allegedly failing to keep its promises and meeting their expectations...Read more
Steve Kekana to turn Joburg Theatre into a lovers’ paradise
10 April 2017
Legendary crossover artist Steve Kekana, who serenaded lovers with his soulful and beautiful ballads in the late 1970s and 1980s, will make a rare appearance at the Joburg Theatre in Braamfontein later this month...Read more
Residents take a walk towards a healthier lifestyle
10 April 2017
Friday April 7 was a Healthy Lifestyle Day for residents of Rosettenville, Turffontein and Townsview in the City of Johannesburg’s Region F...Read more
Play puts SA’s current woes on Joburg Theatre stage
10 April 2017
After watching The Caucasian Chalk Circle at the Joburg Theatre in Braamfontein on Friday night, one walked out of The Fringe with a sense of deja vu...Read more
We are a forgotten lot, residents tell IDP meeting
11 April 2017
City of Johannesburg Member of the Mayoral Committee overseeing Region F, Cllr Richard Funzela Ngobeni, on Monday April 10 painted a picture of how the new administration planned to transform Johannesburg into a “a city that works”...Read more
Mayor Mashaba leads clean-up drive in Lenasia
12 April 2017
Johannesburg Executive Mayor Cllr Herman Mashaba swapped his suit for overalls, a cap, protective boots and hand gloves to lead a clean-up campaign in the Lenasia CBD – including the taxi rank – in Region G, south of Johannesburg, on Tuesday April 11...Read more
City gets tough with illegal outdoor advertisers
12 April 2017
With illegal outdoor advertising costing it tens of millions of rand every year, the City of Johannesburg has moved to toughen its by-laws to ensure the stringent regulation of the erection of billboards, posters, banners and other mediums in the city...Read more
We’re not safe, residents tell MMC at IDP meeting
13 April 2017
Urban decay and the lack of safety dominated deliberations at an Integrated Development Plan (IDP) review meeting at the Yeoville Recreation Centre in Region F last night (Wednesday April 12)...Read more
The City’s school holiday programme impresses MMC
18 April 2017
The City of Johannesburg’s Member of the Mayoral Committee for Community Development, Cllr Nonhlanhla Sifumba, visited two public libraries on Thursday April 13 as the department’s Library and Information Services unit wrapped up its 10-day autumn school holiday programme...Read more
Inside the City’s new R280m council chamber
18 April 2017
The construction of the City of Johannesburg’s new R280-million council chamber is almost complete and the glittering, state-of-the-art building will be ready to host its first council meeting in May this year...Read more
We want clinics, libraries, residents tell IDP meeting
19 April 2017
Residents of Doornkop and surrounding informal settlements as well as Dobsonville Gardens in Region C have given the City of Johannesburg a list of service delivery projects they feel should be included in the Integrated Development Plan (IDP) to enhance their quality of life...Read more
Mayor Mashaba pledges to build a better Jozi for residents
20 April 2017
Johannesburg Executive Mayor Cllr Herman Mashaba last night, 19 April, said his administration was working towards taking the City back from law-breakers...Read more
MOEs’ reintegration savings to fund SMMEs, Mayor tells IDP
21 April 2017
Millions of Rands saved through the reintegration of the City of Johannesburg’s municipal-owned entities (MOEs) will be used to fund small businesses, said Executive Mayor of Johannesburg, Cllr Herman Mashaba, last night...Read more
Disruptions fail to stop Mayor’s IDP address
24 April 2017
It took stern action from the JMPD and a determined Executive Mayor Herman Mashaba to overcome unruly mobs and ensure that residents of Region E had a say in the Integrated Development Plan (IDP) process on Saturday April 22...Read more
JoburgIDP: The personal is political (opinion piece)
28 April 2017
“The personal is political is an argument used previously as a rallying slogan for the student movement and second-wave feminism from the late 1960s.”...Read more
City injects R200 000 into Kwa-Mahlobo games
28 April 2017
The City of Johannesburg’s Community Development Department has pumped R200 000 into this year’s annual KwaMahlabo Games as part of its continued drive to develop soccer among the youth, particularly those in disadvantaged communities...Read more