Mayor supports healthy ageing in the City
03 August 2015
Johannesburg Executive Mayor Councillor Parks Tau has promised that some of the decisions and resolutions taken at the World Congress on Healthy Ageing over the weekend would, where appropriate, be considered for implementation for the benefit of the city’s senior citizens...Read more
New houses give hope to the homeless
03 August 2015
Tshepang was barely in her teens when she and her younger sister, Bontle – then a mere two years old – were left homeless after the death of their mother in 2006...Read more
Mayor gives shoes to poor learners
05 August 2015
Hundreds of needy learners at two primary schools in western Johannesburg were over the moon on Tuesday August 3 when Johannesburg Executive Mayor Councillor Parks Tau handed them a total of 1 000 pairs of school shoes and 500 sanitary pads...Read more
Public Safety’s Wellness Day gets a big thumbs-up
06 August 2015
The City of Johannesburg’s Department of Public Safety on Wednesday August 5 launched an Employee Wellness Day at Klipriviersberg Recreation Centre in Kibler Park as part of an ongoing initiative to improve and sustain the staffers’ emotional, physical and financial well-being...Read more
Thousands register for Vulindlel’ eJozi
07 August 2015
More than 6 500 youths have registered for Vulindlel’ eJozi – a City of Johannesburg’s initiative aimed at breaking down barriers to youth employment – since the programme officially came on stream on June 16, Youth Day...Read more
City’s healthy ageing commitment lauded
07 August 2015
The Healthy Ageing Society of Africa (HASOA) has applauded the City of Johannesburg for its commitment to ensuring that residents in their twilight years enjoy an improved quality of life...Read more
City and UJ to launch Digital Ambassadors
07 August 2015
The City of Johannesburg in partnership with the University of Johannesburg will today, Friday 7 August 2015 at 17h30, launch the Digital Ambassadors programme which is designed to bridge the digital divide across the metropolitan municipality...Read more
Approved SDBIP sets stage for Joburg’s Final Push
11 August 2015
The City of Johannesburg is to intensify its delivery of services following the approval by Council of its 2015-2016 Institutional Service Delivery Budget and Implementation Plan (SDBIP)...Read more
Hack Jozi Challenge is the real deal
11 August 2015
The finalists of the inaugural #Hack.Jozi Challenge are the bedrock on which the City of Johannesburg hopes to build its vision of a techno-savvy, world-class African city...Read more
Business Place open for business in Soweto
13 August 2015
The Business Place, an advisory agency that assists SMMEs to establish themselves, has opened a new office in Soweto to ensure that its services are easily accessible to the residents of South Africa’s biggest township...Read more
Soweto rolls out green carpet for Gary Player
13 August 2015
It will be a day of vintage golf and loads of fun when the Soweto Country Club in Pimville opens its fairways for the legendary Gary Player as part of his 80th birthday celebration and the 50th year since he won the Major Grand Slam on Saturday August 15...Read more
Jozi hosts duathlon for ecomobility
14 August 2015
The City of Johannesburg will, in partnership with leading health group Discovery, stage the first-ever South African urban duathlon in Sandton on October 24 and 25...Read more
City creates a platform for women entrepreneurs
14 August 2015
As part of the activities to mark National Women’s Month, the City of Johannesburg is to host a five-day Women Entrepreneurship Week at the Joburg Theatre from Monday August 17...Read more
Gary Player’s gift to Soweto
17 August 2015
The money raised during legendary golfer Gary Player’s 80th birthday party in Soweto on Saturday August 15 and the celebrations to mark the 50th anniversary of his achievement of the Grand Slam will be injected into the makeover of the Soweto Country Club...Read more
JRA spruces up Region A streets
18 August 2015
The Johannesburg Roads Agency (JRA) will, in the current financial year, spend a significant portion of Region A’s R24-million maintenance budget on ensuring that street names in its various suburbs, townships and commercial areas are clear and visible...Read more
Mayor Tau leads the way to a cleaner Diepsloot
19 August 2015
Johannesburg Executive Mayor Councillor Parks Tau swapped his suit for a yellow Jozi@Work jacket when he led several Gauteng mayors and Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Pravin Gordhan in a cleanup campaign in Diepsloot on Tuesday August 18...Read more
Soweto Wine festival goes to Kliptown
20 August 2015
The 11th annual Soweto Wine and Lifestyle Festival, happening from 4 to 6 September this year in Soweto, is set to impress in a spectacular fusion of boutique wine brands and high-end fashion, food, creativity and art entrepreneurism...Read more
Training boost for 800 Jozi inner city SMMEs
21 August 2015
More than 800 small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) in the Johannesburg inner city will receive a major boost ahead of the Joburg Shopping Festival in September and October...Read more
More youths board the Vulindlel’ eJozi train
24 August 2015
The City of Johannesburg’s drive to assist the youth to access employment opportunities shifted into top gear last week when officials of Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator and the City introduced the Vulindlel’ eJozi Programme to the youth in three more areas...Read more
City unveils monuments to SA’s struggle heroines
25 August 2015
The presence of Sophia de Bruyn, the last surviving leader of the historic 1956 women’s march, at the unveiling of the Democracy Monument at the Beyers Naude Square on Monday August 24 to mark the 59th anniversary of National Women’s Month, evoked memories of decades of women’s struggle for liberation...Read more
Food parcels keep hunger at bay
26 August 2015
No one in Joburg should go to bed hungry,” Councillor Nonceba Molwele, the City of Johannesburg’s Member of the Mayoral Committee (MMC) for Health and Social Development, reiterated during the handover of food parcels to thousands of needy families in Ivory Park on Tuesday August 25...Readmore
City intensifies fight against illegal electricity connections
27 August 2015
The City of Johannesburg is intensifying its fight against illegal electricity connections...Read more
JMPD, EMS veterans are simply the best
27 August 2015
The JMPD Academy in Booysens on Friday August 21 reverberated to the sounds of Tina Turner’s all-time classic hit, Simply the Best...Read more
Thousands up for grabs in Kota Challenge
27 August 2015
The City of Johannesburg’s Healthy Kota Challenge, run under the Go Jozi Healthy Lifestyle Flagship Programme, is back on track, with the quarterfinals scheduled to take place from Monday August 24 to Tuesday September 1...Read more
Jozi’s singles are hot – survey
28 August 2015
We all know that Cape Town has the mountain, Durban the beaches and Pretoria the Jacaranda trees. But what is Johannesburg’s claim to fame? What sets it apart from others?...Read more
JMPD tackle Aids for Women’s Month
30 August 2015
JMPD women officers joined forces with the cast of health TV drama series Soul City and activists of non-governmental organisations such as Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and Love Life to raise awareness of the dangers of HIV-AIDS and drug abuse in Ennerdale on Thursday...Read more
Call for increased investment in cities
30 August 2015
Delegates at the Urban Investment Partnership Conference on Friday August 28 agreed that cities were critical centres of economic activity and that the government needed to fast-track an enabling legislative environment to promote investment targeting urban spaces that advanced inclusive growth in line with the National Development Plan...Read more
The Caucasian Chalk enthrals theatre-goers
31 August 2015
The eagerly awaited stage play within a play, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, opened at the Space.com youth development theatre at the Joburg Theatre in Braamfontein to a standing ovation and critical acclaim at the weekend...Read more
JDA’s What’s the plan exhibition gets going
03 August 2015
Aselect group of Johannesburg residents on Sunday August 2 had a sneak preview of the upcoming Johannesburg Development Agency’s “What’s the Plan?” multimedia exhibition...Read more
City hands over houses to vulnerable families
03 August 2015
Everyday is Mandela Day in the City of Johannesburg.
This was again reinforced on Friday when the City’s Member of the Mayoral Committee for Housing, Councillor Dan Bovu, handed over houses to eight vulnerable families in Region G – 13 days after the world officially celebrated the selflessness of former president Nelson Mandela on what would have been his 97th birthday...Read more
Vulindlel’eJozi goes to communities
06 August 2015
Vulindlel’ eJozi – a R150-million programme designed to break down barriers to opportunities for the youth of the City of Johannesburg has begun creating awareness in communities on how young people can be part of it...Read more
Soweto rocks, say WCHA tourists
06 August 2015
Soweto is a city of resilience populated by people with a pervading entrepreneurial spirit...Read more
City gives SANDF Education Trust a boost
07 August 2015
Johannesburg Executive Mayor Councillor Parks Tau on Thursday August 6 handed over a cheque for R2-million to the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) Education Trust to assist it in funding the education of children of force members who were killed in the line of duty...Read more
Multimillion-rand makeover for city roads and freeways
07 August 2015
The City of Johannesburg is to spend more than R365-million this financial year alone to reconstruct, rehabilitate and maintain freeways, roads and streets as part of its R110-billion multi-year infrastructure investment programme...Read more
City celebrates Dr Bensusan, photographic icon
07 August 2015
Three Johannesburg photographic societies corroborated at Museum Africa in Newtown earlier this week in celebration of the legacy of avid amateur photographer and one-time Johannesburg mayor Dr Arthur D Bensusan...Read more
Residents to join Joburg’s digital revolution
11 August 2015
More than 720 000 households in various parts of Johannesburg will over the next 18 months be trained in digital literacy to enable them to use and benefit from broadband connections in the city...Read more
Mixed emotions at City’s Revenue Open Day
11 August 2015
There were mixed outcomes for more than 300 Johannesburg ratepayers at the City of Johannesburg’s Revenue Open Day at the Lenasia Civic Centre in Region G on Saturday August 8...Read more
City to host top African polo championships
13 August 2015
Africa’s exclusive polo and lifestyle showpiece returns to Inanda Club in Sandton this weekend for three days of equestrian skills from the top drawer, beauty, glitz and glamour...Read more
City’s social burial policy comes under review
13 August 2015
The City of Johannesburg is in the process of reviewing its social burial policy in a bid to lessen the pain of impoverished residents who have lost their loved ones...Read more
Joburg EMS team vies for SA’s top public safety award
14 August 2015
The City of Johannesburg’s Emergency Management Services’ team based in Jabulani, Soweto, that spearheaded the dramatic rescue of 18 people buried under the rubble of a collapsed building near the Orlando Cooling Towers in June 2014, is among a short list of teams poised to clinch this year’s Centrum Guardians of the Year Award...Read more
Jozi domestic worker rules the fairways
17 August 2015
For the past 19 years, Connie Seatlholo has been hitting the little white ball and most of her rivals fear the ground she treads on...Read more
Soweto club on a journey to find its own Tiger Woods
18 August 2015
The Soweto Country Club has acquired the services of one of Johannesburg’s rising coaches to realise its dreams of unearthing the city’s own Tiger Woods...Read more
JMPD women officers lend helping hand
18 August 2015
Several women members of the Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD) spent Monday August 17 lending a helping hand at Siyabonga Dorah’s Ark, a Roodepoort charitable organisation – cleaning its premises and handing out food parcels – as part of their contribution to National Women’s Month...Read more
Empower women, transform the nation
18 August 2015
The City of Johannesburg’s inaugural five-day Women’s Entrepreneurship Week currently under way at the Joburg Theatre in Braamfontein is meant to “give women in the city wings to fly”...Read more
JMPD women officers take charge
19 August 2015
It is National Women’s Month and female members of the Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD) are in charge and on top of crime prevention initiatives in the city...Read more
Pikitup in new move to clean up Jozi’s inner city
21 August 2015
Dozens of business owners, leaders of non-governmental organisations and Johannesburg inner city residents have signed a pledge committing themselves to contributing to the cleanliness of the Johannesburg CBD...Read more
City donates 293 bicycles to Soweto learners
24 August 2015
The City of Johannesburg’s mission to create a non-motorised transport culture to minimise traffic congestion and limit the effects of greenhouse gas emissions took another leap forward on Friday August 21 when it handed over 293 bicycles to learners at three Soweto high schools...Read more
Jozi women dump speeches for business
24 August 2015
Every National Women’s Month, women are put on a pedestal, with long speeches made and songs sung to celebrate their heroism...Read more
Women pugilists to go pound-for-pound
26 August 2015
The City of Johannesburg will close-off Women’s Month with a fistful event when they host a Women’s Boxing Tournament in partnership with Ethembeni Promotion, at Cosmo City Multipurpose Complex, on Friday, 28 August 2015 at 7h30pm...Read more
City celebrates African traditional medicine
27 August 2015
It’s official: The City of Johannesburg has given African traditional medicine a clean bill of health...Read more
Fak’ugesi gets Jozi geeks all fired up
27 August 2015
If you want to keep abreast of technological innovations, then you better make your way to the Fak’ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival...Read more
KayaFM 67km Relay for Mandela imminent
27 August 2015
It’s all systems go for the staging of the KayaFM 67km Relay for Mandela in honour of the internationally revered statesman’s 67 years of struggle for democracy, equality and justice...Read more
Metros must invest wisely in infrastructure – Gordhan
28 August 2015
The ability of municipalities to invest wisely in urban infrastructure would be a major contributory factor to South Africa’s economic future, Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Pravin Gordhan said on Thursday August 27...Read more
Jozi@work packages awarded in Region B
28 August 2015
Three work packages totalling R2,3-million are up for grabs under the Jozi@Work mass empowerment and job-creation initiative in the City of Johannesburg’s Region B...Read more
Women boxing revived in Jozi
30 August 2015
Women boxing is alive and kicking in Johannesburg, Member of the Mayoral Committee for Community Development Councillor Chris Vondo declared after watching two exciting bouts featuring women pugilists at the Cosmo City Multipurpose Centre in Region C at the weekend...Read more
Sounds of isicathamiya to rock Soweto Theatre
31 August 2015
The explosive sounds of isicathamiya are expected to lift the roof of the Soweto Theatre when bands such as Ingoma Group, Umzantsi and Ushemen perform at the Jozi FM Maskandi Festival on Friday 4 September...Read more