Roles of ward committee members in city clarified
01 August 2017
The City of Johannesburg has warned newly elected ward committee members that they cannot tender for goods and services in their wards as this would constitute a conflict of interest...Read more
Joburg in new drive to end electricity-related deaths
04 August 2017
National power utility Eskom, the City of Johannesburg’s Citizen Relationship and Urban Management (CRUM) Department, the Johannesburg Emergency Management Services (EMS) and the Johannesburg Metro Police Department (JMPD) have jointly embarked on a month-long campaign to reduce the number of electricity-related injuries and deaths...Read more
Joburg Zoo’s new R45-m parkade unveiled
04 August 2017
The City of Johannesburg’s Member of the Mayoral Committee for Community Development, Cllr Nonhlanhla Sifumba, on Wednesday August 2 officially unveiled the Johannesburg Zoo’s R45-million parkade – ending years of parking woes and traffic congestion at the 115-year-old popular wildlife conservation facility...Read more
Jozi to host NBA All Africa Games
04 August 2017
In a significant sporting coup, the City of Johannesburg is to host this year’s NBA All Africa Games at the Ticketpro Dome in Randburg on Saturday August 5...Read more
Metrobus’s female bus driver has seen it all
11 August 2017
Neo Luthuli vividly remembers the first day of her career as a bus driver as if it was only yesterday.
As she sat behind the steering wheel of the big idling bus to start her maiden shift one weekday morning in February 2004, the then 20-year-old Luthuli was overcome with deep and mixed emotions...Read more
How a Jozi co-operative is turning trash into cash
11 August 2017
While most people simply cannot stand rubbish, the wife-and-husband team of Gladys and Bricks Mokolo thrives on it...Read more
Joburg mayor unveils satellite facility to fight crime
17 August 2017
Kenilworth, Turffontein and Rosettenville – three suburbs in southern Johannesburg that were earlier this year rocked by a wave of criminality including drug peddling, human trafficking and prostitution – have their own satellite operations centre manned by Johannesburg Metro Police Department (JMPD) officers...Read more
Exciting new musical hits the Joburg Theatre
17 August 2017
Anew musical, Calling Me Home, premiered at the Joburg Theatre on August 17.
It’s a mix of some of Southern Africa’s most celebrated stage performers that sees Zolani Mahola, the lead singer of popular group FreshlyGround, making her musical theatre debut as Lindiwe, one of the three leading women on a journey of self-discovery...Read more
Joburg gets ready for the 2017 edition of FNB Art Fair
17 August 2017
The 10th edition of the FNB Joburg Art Fair, to be held at the Sandton Convention Centre from September 8-10, will feature more than 60 exhibitions in categories such as contemporary and modern art, solo presentations, limited editions and art platforms...Read more
Joy of Jazz festival to mark its 20th anniversary in style
22 August 2017
The upcoming 20th edition of the Standard Bank Joy of Jazz festival promises to be a stimulating event that will see world-renowned jazz artists from around the world converging on the Sandton Convention for a magical jazz experience from 28-30 September...Read more
Introducing councillor Leah Knott [MMC Economic Development]
23 August 2017
Councillor Leah Knott, MMC for the City’s Department of Economic Development, brings with her years of ward-based community-based activism, serving the citizens of Johannesburg with focus and dedication...Read more
Mayor calls on business to make Soweto Country Club great
28 August 2017
Johannesburg Executive Mayor Herman Mashaba says the Soweto Country Club has the potential to be on the same par with some of the best golf courses in the world...Read more
Top authors to grace the 2017 Jozi Book Fair
30 August 2017
Internationally acclaimed authors and poets, actors and media personalities will participate in the ninth edition of the Jozi Book Fair (JBF) at the Mary Fitzgerald Square in Newtown, Johannesburg, from Thursday August 31 to Sunday September 3...Read more
Cork Avenue bridge now open after R7.3 million makeover
01 August 2017
Cork Avenue Bridge in Ferndale, Randburg is now accessible to all road users, following Johannesburg Roads Agency’s (JRA) R7.3 million reconstruction of the bridge...Read more
Jozi connects Chinese and local companies at show
04 August 2017
China needs Africa and Africa needs China.
This was the central theme of the 2017 Global Trade Show (GTS) of Networking and Match-Making South Africa held over three days at the Gallagher Convention Centre in Midrand...Read more
City of Joburg to ditch old spatial development plans
04 August 2017
The City of Johannesburg wants to rectify the mistakes of the past by avoiding to house people far away from places of economic activity, Development Planning Department officials said during the review of the Spatial Development Framework (SDF) 2040 at the Lenasia South municipal offices in Region G on Tuesday August 1...Read more
JOSHCO to build 514 social housing units near Alex
04 August 2017
More than 500 low-income-earning families will soon have a roof over their heads after a R274.8-million Lombardy East social housing project that experienced delays over the past three years finally received the go-ahead...Read more
Mayor launches project to replace manhole covers
10 August 2017
Johannesburg Executive Mayor Herman Mashaba today (Thursday August 10) unveiled a citywide project to replace stolen manhole covers to ensure the safety of road users and other members of the public...Read more
Women abuse seen through the eyes of a veteran sculptor
11 August 2017
No parent should ever have to bury their child.
These were the emotive words of veteran artist Mazwi Ndima as he tearfully related the pain of losing two of his children at the hands of their partners during the opening of his five-week-long exhibition – Imbali yo Mfazi/The Legend of a Woman – at the Workers’ Museum in Newtown, Johannesburg, on National Women’s Day on Wednesday August 9...Read more
Illegal immigrants held as City cleans up Midrand CBD
17 August 2017
Thirty-two illegal immigrants were arrested during a joint South African Police Service (SAPS) and Johannesburg Metro Police Department (JMPD) clean-up operation in the Midrand Central Business District (CBD) in Region A on Wednesday August 16...Read more
Joburg and Gauteng province in big push to establish co-operative banks
17 August 2017
The City of Johannesburg has teamed up with the Gauteng Provincial Government in a new move to establish co-operative banks in the city...Read more
SA loses Polo Africa Cup, but the sport maintains its shine
21 August 2017
The 2017 edition of the Cell C Inanda Africa Polo tournament at the Inanda Club in Sandton ended in disappointment for the South African team on Sunday August 20 when it was overcome by Zimbabwe in the final game of the three-day challenge...Read more
Metrobus’s female auto electrician in driver’s seat
23 August 2017
As a young girl, Sibonginkosi Ndlovu loved taking things apart and putting them together all over again – just for the thrill of it.
As she grew up, Ndlovu had no doubt that her future lay in the rough and tumble, male-dominated world of motor mechanics.
In pursuit of her dream, she enrolled for an auto electrical engineering course, much against the advice of some of the people closest to her. That was 15 years ago...Read more
City gives elderly a special Women’s Month treatment
24 August 2017
Monday August 21 was a special day for more than 300 residents of Reuven Old Age Home in Turffontein in Region F, southern Johannesburg...Read more
Jozi to celebrate Arts Alive Festival’s jubilee year in style
29 August 2017
The popular, multi-genre, diverse and exciting month-long City of Johannesburg’s annual International Arts Alive Festival is back – and it is bigger, brighter and better than ever before...Read more
MMC moves to make JBF an inclusive organisation
30 August 2017
The City of Johannesburg’s Member of the Mayoral Committee for Economic Department, Cllr Leah Knott, has called on the Johannesburg Business Forum (JBF) to change its focus to help narrow the inequality gap and accelerate economic growth in the city...Read more