Soweto Theatre grooming future stars
01 February 2016
Meet five-year-old Bandile Tshabalala, a film, theatre and TV star in the making...Read more
Alexandra up for a major environmental overhaul
01 February 2016
The City of Johannesburg’s Member of the Mayoral Committee for Environment and Infrastructure Services, Councillor Matshidiso Mfikoe, yesterday (Sunday January 31) warned residents they would be condemning the next generation to appalling future if they did not take care of their environment...Read more
Family business cutting it under Jozi@Work
01 February 2016
In South Africa, it is rare for mothers to go into business with their sons...Read more
City moves to address challenges in Ivory Park
03 February 2016
More than 50% of the service delivery challenges identified during the Bua Le Sechaba campaign in some of the 48 sections of the Ivory Park informal settlement in the City of Johannesburg’s Region A last year have been addressed, according to Regional Director Abigail Ndlovu...Read more
Demand for church sites in Joburg skyrockets
03 February 2016
Unorthodox churches are inundating the Johannesburg Property Company (JPC), the City of Johannesburg’s property arm, with a flood of applications for land on which to build their places of worship...Read more
Boreholes - key to saving water in Joburg
04 February 2016
Johannesburg Water – the City of Johannesburg’s water and sanitation provision entity – has entered into a partnership with Borehole Water Association (BWA) to encourage the city’s residents to switch to borehole water to mitigate the crippling drought...Read more
City allocates Jozi@Work packages worth R1.2 million
04 February 2016
Three of the City of Johannesburg’s entities on Tuesday 2 February offered small businesses and co-operatives in Region C eight work packages totalling R1.2-million under Jozi@Work, a mayoral initiative aimed at tackling unemployment, poverty and inequality...Read more
Backlogs at licensing centres ‘almost cleared’
05 February 2016
The City of Johannesburg’s Licensing Department is on track to clear backlogs caused by a number of wildcat strikes late last year that raised the ire of motorists who could not renew their licences or pay for their expired disks...Read more
Joburg to host DEMO Africa conference
08 February 2016
Johannesburg has recently been selected to host this year’s DEMO Africa conference, regarded as the “launchpad for emerging technology and trends”, in what Member of the Mayor Committee for Economic Development Councillor Ruby Mathang has said will have “positive outcomes” for the city....Read more
Westbury-Perth Corridor gathers speed
10 February 2016
The development of the Westbury-Perth Corridor of Freedom – which on completion will bring local residents closer to economic activities, work opportunities, schools and places of leisure – is steadily taking shape...Read more
Jozi@Work brings hope to Poortjie community
11 February 2016
The community of Poortjie, a few kilometres outside Orange Farm in the City of Johannesburg’s Region G, is set to benefit from contracts made possible by the City’s jozi@work programme...Read more
Jozi@Work gets more residents working
15 February 2016
More and more Johannesburg residents are getting down to work thanks to Jozi@Work, a City of Johannesburg programme aimed at addressing unemployment, poverty and inequality...Read more
City joins Davidsonville in clean up campaign
16 February 2016
Residents of Davidsonville in Roodepoort, in the City of Johannesburg’s Region C, turned out in large numbers on Monday February 15 to give spruce up their neighbourhood under the City’s Integrated Community Outreach Programme (ICOP)...Read more
Local government polls to be held in August
17 February 2016
Local government polls, which will see millions of registered voters elect councillors for a new five-year term, will take place by August this year...Read more
Mayor Tau rewards Jozi’s top matric achievers
18 February 2016
Every day after school last year, 19-year-old Jeffrey Mahlangu spent at least four hours thoroughly and meticulously going through his day’s work...Read more
City refurbish Westdene Dam Precinct
18 February 2016
The masterplan for the multimillion rand Westdene Dam Precinct upgrade by Johannesburg City Parks & Zoo (JCP&Z) has been approved and the first part of the project is expected to start in a matter of weeks...Read more
City swoops on illegal metal dealers
18 February 2016
Eight cars were impounded, five panel beating workshops closed down, 10 people fined amounts of up to R1 500 and several others issued with verbal and written warnings during a massive raid of illegal scrapyards in the eastern parts of Johannesburg yesterday...Read more
City calls for patience ahead of M1 bridge rehabilitation
19 February 2016
As the Johannesburg Roads Agency (JRA) – the City of Johannesburg’s roads and storm water infrastructure development and maintenance entity – gears up for the second phase of the rehabilitation of three bridges on the M1 freeway this month, motorists and other road users have been urged to use public transport or explore alternative routes to ease traffic congestion...Read more
Data - ‘key to the fight against climate change’
19 February 2016
The apparent reluctance by certain government departments to share data timeously continues to thwart efforts by African mega cities to combat greenhouse gas emissions and come up with effective strategies to fight climate change...Read more
Soweto residents get vocal at property rates hearings
22 February 2016
Soweto residents complained during a Property Rates and Taxes Review Policy meeting at Protea Glen Library at the weekend that their monthly bills were too high and called on the City of Johannesburg to introduce a flat rate billing system...Read more
Meetings Africa reflects on tourism growth
24 February 2016
Tourism had grown phenomenally in South Africa over the past 21 years – from four million visitors in 1994 to just under nine million in 2015 – Tourism Minister Derek Hanekom said on Tuesday February 23...Read more
Council approves Westbury precinct development plan
26 February 2016
The City of Johannesburg’s monthly council meeting yesterday approved the Westbury Development Precinct plan, clearing the way for the corridor to be developed...Read more
Tourism trade show to link SMMEs to big opportunities
26 February 2016
It’s all systems go for the Gauteng Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMME) Tourism Indaba, which will be held at the Kliptown Conference Centre in Soweto on Monday February 29 and Tuesday March 1...Read more
Speaker pays tribute to slain Councillor Dokolwane
26 February 2016
City of Johannesburg’s Speaker of Council, Councillor Connie Bapela, yesterday paid tribute to ANC Councillor Mbuyiseni Dokolwane, who was gunned down at his Freedom Park home on Monday night. She also conveyed the City’s condolences to Councillor Dokolwane’s distraught family...Read more
No shortcuts for Jozi business sites applicants
29 February 2016
City of Johannesburg Rates Policy Specialist Tandisizwe Sidubulekana has urged residents who want to open businesses to follow proper procedures...Read more
Mayor Tau calls on youth to take up opportunities
01 February 2016
Johannesburg Executive Mayor Councillor Parks Tau has reiterated his call to Johannesburg youth to take advantage of a myriad of opportunities the City is offering under Vulindlel’ eJozi, an initiative aimed at breaking down barriers to youth employment...Read more
MMC Molwele leads City’s weight-loss programme
01 February 2016
It’s just gone 6.25am when I arrive at the Metro Centre piazza in Braamfontein...Read more
Informal settlement gets a big makeover
02 February 2016
More than 300 City of Johannesburg officials and employees on Monday February 1 descended on Bonamelo Primary School in Block 4 in Thulani Extension, Doornkop, for Region C’s first cleanup campaign of the year under the Integrated Community Outreach Programme (ICOP)...Read more
Stakeholders boost Region C disaster management
03 February 2016
The Disaster Management Advisory Sub Forum was established in the City of Johannesburg’s Region C, in order to sharpen the region’s disaster management preparedness. The forum has made significant progress since its inception a year ago...Read more
IEC sets aside two days for voter registration
04 February 2016
The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) has set aside two days in March for voter registration as part of its preparations for the upcoming local government elections...Read more
Interfaith dialogue put on hold amid disagreements
04 February 2016
The two-day Interfaith Workshop held at the Soweto Theatre in Jabulani this week has been postponed indefinitely after delegates disagreed on the investigations being conducted into churches by the Commission for the Promotion and Protection of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Rights...Read more
City breathing new life into informal settlements
04 February 2016
Major strides have been made to address many of the service delivery challenges identified during a Bua Le Sechaba (Talk to the Nation) visit to several informal settlements by Members of the City of Johannesburg’s Mayoral Committee in Region C last year...Read more
Unemployed offered Jozi@Work cake
08 February 2016
Several work packages valued at tens of thousands of rands under Jozi@Work were offered to hundreds of small township businesses and co-operatives in the City of Johannesburg’s Region G over four days last week...Read more
Jozi is cool, says GQ mag
09 February 2016
Johannesburg has received yet another international accolade – this time it has been voted the coolest city south of the Equator by a top United Kingdom magazine...Read more
Corridors of Freedom gets Global Environmental Fund investment
10 February 2016
The Corridors of Freedom (CoF) – the City of Johannesburg’s programme aimed at undoing apartheid’s spatial planning and injustices – has received a R120-million shot in the arm from the US-based Global Environmental Fund (GEF) to enhance sustainable development initiatives in the metropolis....Read more
Bye Bye Baby brings magic to Joburg Theatre
15 February 2016
After taking Britain by storm last year, the Bye Bye Baby show opened on the Mandela stage of the Joburg Theatre last week to much fanfare...Read more
Joburg Water gives Ennerdale work opportunities
16 February 2016
Johannesburg Water – the City of Johannesburg’s water and sanitation entity – on Monday February 15 offered Ennerdale co-operatives and small township businesses two work packages under Jozi@Work, the City’s R3-billion empowerment and job creation programme...Read more
City, province celebrate World Wetlands Month
17 February 2016
The Dorothy Nyembe Environmental Education Centre in Dobsonville, Soweto, will be a beehive of activity on Thursday February 18 when the City of Johannesburg and the Gauteng Provincial Government celebrate the 45th anniversary of World Wetlands Month...Read more
Racism comes under spotlight in Ghandi’s Tolstoy
17 February 2016
Tolstoy, a farm southwest of Johannesburg where Mahatma Gandhi and his followers lived in the late 1800s and early 1900s, was this week chosen as the venue for a dialogue on racism facilitated by the City of Johannesburg...Read more
Joburg residents keep Ombudsman on his toes
18 February 2016
When Johannesburg’s first Ombudsman, Advocate S’duduzo Gumede, walked into his office in Houghton for the first time on 1 July 2015 to officially start his new job as an independent arbiter of disputes involving residents and the City’s administration, he knew it was not going to be a walk in the park...Read more
MMC Bovu stops illegal occupation of Lakeside houses
18 February 2016
The illegal occupation of more than 400 RDP housing units in Lakeside, near Orange Farm in the City of Johannesburg’s Region G – which left the properties’ rightful owners out in the cold for over 13 years – has finally come to an end...Read more
Varsities ‘key to the fight against climate change’
19 February 2016
Mega cities struggling with data collection to formulate their climate change actions should start considering building relations with institutions of higher learning, especially universities, in their respective areas...Read more
Deputy President and Mayor to inspire youth at expo
19 February 2016
Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, Johannesburg Executive Mayor Councillor Parks Tau and a high-profile government delegation will rub shoulders with the youth at the Youth Development Expo at the Soweto campus of the University of Johannesburg tomorrow (Saturday February 20) and inspire them to achieve great things...Read more
Thousands benefit from City’s youth initiatives
22 February 2016
Thousands of young people are benefiting from the City of Johannesburg’s youth empowerment and upskilling initiatives being championed by Executive Mayor Councillor Parks Tau...Read more
Jozi C40 workshop hailed as a ‘big success’
22 February 2016
The C40 Cities workshop hosted by the City of Johannesburg wound up its business late last week with delegates describing it as a “huge success”...Read more
Gauteng inject R3.4-bn into township economy
23 February 2016
The Gauteng Provincial Government and its municipalities – including the City of Johannesburg – procured goods and services worth a total of R3.4-billion from township enterprises in the past year, Premier David Makhura said yesterday...Read more
Residents call for fair and justifiable rates
24 February 2016
Residents of Lenasia and Eldorado Park in the City of Johannesburg’s Region G last night said the disproportionate amounts they were being charged for rates and taxes were unfair – and called for the introduction of a flat rate billing system...Read more
Export opportunities galore for Jozi’s SMMEs – MMC Mathang
26 February 2016
Emerging agricultural and agro-processing businesses are reaping significant commercial rewards from several strategic opportunities and interventions driven by the City of Johannesburg...Read more
Pikitup collecting new possibilities
29 February 2016
Pikitup, the City of Johannesburg’s waste management entity, has embarked on a series of clean-a-thons in a sustained five-month campaign to educate and empower residents about the devastating effects of waste and to mobilise and encourage them to rescue their city from grime...Read more
Jozi residents reap healthy lifestyle benefits
29 February 2016
The City of Johannesburg’s Healthy Lifestyle Programme is proving to be a big success...Read more