More M1 lane closures as work approaches completion
01 February 2017
Work on the Double Decker section of the M1 freeway is to be intensified and lane restrictions increased over the next two weeks as the deadline to complete the massive rehabilitation of the key route fast approaches...Read more
City and residents agree on rates but differ on approach
02 February 2017
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? This age-old question came to mind during a City of Johannesburg’s Property Rates Policy review meeting at the Orange Farm Multipurpose Centre in Region G on Wednesday February 1 when City officials emphasised the significance and importance of paying rates and taxes...Read more
City told: Show us the service, we will show you the money
03 February 2017
Irate residents let rip at a City of Johannesburg Property Rates Policy review meeting at Marks Park Sports Complex in Emmarentia, Region B, last night (Thursday February 2), expressing their frustrations over what they perceived or claimed to be poor levels of service delivery...Read more
Young artists give Jabulani Amphitheatre a modern look
03 February 2017
Seven budding Soweto artists have shared R37 000 in prizes in a steel art competition linked to the development of the multimillion-rand Jabulani Cultural Precinct in Soweto...Read more
City gives unskilled Jozi youth tools to succeed
06 February 2017
Twenty-one unskilled young men and women were over the moon at the Metro Centre in Braamfontein on Friday February 3 when they were presented with national certificates after completing the Environmental Practice Level 2 Learnership Programme...Read more
City employees urged to watch anti-corruption play
06 February 2017
The Mother of All Eating, a play written by distinguished South African author and playwright Zakes Mda more than two decades ago about the ugly and destructive nature of corruption is back on stage...Read more
Jozi ready to host the Global Entrepreneurship Congress
07 February 2017
It’s all is set for the 2017 Global Entrepreneurship Congress (GEC), which takes place in Johannesburg over four days in March – the first time it is held on African soil since its inception eight years ago...Read more
Jozi belongs to everyone, Mayor tells stakeholders
07 February 2017
Johannesburg Executive Mayor Cllr Herman Mashaba has clarified his position on the issue of illegal immigrants living in the city, which was widely reported in the media following the completion of his administration’s first 100 days in office in December last year...Read more
Joburg to unveil first green public toilets
08 February 2017
The City of Johannesburg has once again taken the lead in the innovative green solutions space...Read more
City ready to hold third round of ward committee polls
09 February 2017
It’s all systems go for the third and final round of the City of Johannesburg’s 2017 ward committee elections, to be held in regions D and G on Saturday February 11...Read more
Rates meeting told: Living in Sandton doesn’t make us rich
09 February 2017
The City of Johannesburg must factor in current trends in the market when it undertakes its valuation process so ratepayers’ properties could remain within the market value...Read more
Residents tell City officials property rates are confusing
10 February 2017
ACity of Johannesburg Property Rates Policy review meeting at the Cosmo City Multipurpose Centre in Region C almost descended into chaos last night (Thursday February 9) when disgruntled members of the audience walked out after they were not given the answers they expected from City officials...Read more
Mayor Mashaba vows to make lives of criminals uncomfortable
10 February 2017
Johannesburg Executive Mayor Cllr Herman Mashaba last night (Thursday February 9) told residents of Rosettenville that his office had “officially declared war on criminals”...Read more
The A-Z of a healthy pregnancy in one week
10 February 2017
All things antenatal and postnatal are in the spotlight as the City of Johannesburg celebrates Pregnancy Awareness Week, an integral part of the Reproductive Health Awareness Month that is observed nationally in February every year...Read more
Joburg Market spells out plans to achieve 5% growth target
13 February 2017
The Joburg Market, a City of Johannesburg fresh produce entity, is planning to develop 22 hectares of adjacent land as an agro hub to create socioeconomic opportunities and much-needed jobs...Read more
Longer waiting times as City experiences technical difficulties
13 February 2017
The City of Johannesburg is currently experiencing technical system issues, which is hampering service delivery at Revenue Customer Service Centres city-wide...Read more
Joburg Zoo’s Letaba the Lion given a clean bill of health
14 February 2017
He may appear lean and shabby but Letaba the White Lion, a resident of the Johannesburg Zoo, is in “excellent health”, despite serious concerns raised by members of the public...Read more
Service delivery takes centre stage at property rates indaba
14 February 2017
Service delivery issues dominated a City of Johannesburg Property Rates Policy review meeting at the Roodepoort City Hall in Region C last night...Read more
Low turnout in last round of ward committee elections
15 February 2017
Less than half of the 66 000 residents who were expected to vote in the third and final round of the City of Johannesburg’s ward committee elections in regions D and G at the weekend turned up to cast their ballots...Read more
Residents call on the City to improve service delivery to justify rate hikes
16 February 2017
Residents of Newlands and surrounding suburbs have urged City of Johannesburg property rates policy specialists to bring along officials from municipal-owned entities (MOEs) such as City Power, Johannesburg Water and Pikitup to the next policy review meeting to help them answer questions and concerns...Read more
City and its partners take healthcare services to men
17 February 2017
The City of Johannesburg’s Health Department, in partnership with various service providers and non-governmental organisations (NGOs), visited residents of Wolhuter Men’s Hostel in Jeppe, Region F, on Thursday February 16 to provide them with vital healthcare information and services...Read more
Why Italian swimmers love Joburg
20 February 2017
A team of Italian swimmers will fly back home on Tuesday February 21 after spending three weeks in Johannesburg fine-tuning their skills and techniques in preparation for tough swimming competitions in the coming weeks and months...Read more
It’s all systems go for the 2017 Joburg Open
21 February 2017
More than 400 million television viewers around the world are expected to turn their attention to South Africa on Thursday February 23 for the start of the 11th edition of the Johannesburg Open at the Royal Kensington and Johannesburg Golf Club...Read more
City unveils Rea Vaya layover and turns sod at Selby depot
22 February 2017
The continued development of Phase 1B of the Rea Vaya Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system has taken two major leaps forward.
On Tuesday February 21, two Members of the Mayoral Committee of the City of Johannesburg – Cllr Nonhlanhla Makhuba (Transport) and Cllr Funzela Ngobeni (Development Planning) – turned the sod at the site of the new Rea Vaya Selby depot and formally handed over the Booysens layover to Litsamaiso, the Rea Vaya bus operating company owned by former taxi bosses...Read more
Mayor opens revamped Soweto Country Club ahead of 2017 Joburg Open
23 February 2017
Johannesburg Executive Mayor Cllr Herman Mashaba officially opened the Soweto Country Club on Wednesday February 22 ahead of the 11th-edition of the Johannesburg Open, which tees-off at the Royal Kensington and the Johannesburg Country Club golf courses today (Thursday February 23)...Read more
Finance Minister strengthens the hand of municipalities
23 February 2017
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has added R1-billion to the local government equitable share in the 2018-2019 Budget in view of rising household numbers and infrastructure maintenance requirements in cities...Read more
Jozi@Work’s discontinuation sparks council chamber chaos
24 February 2017
The City of Johannesburg’s monthly council meeting was abandoned on Thursday February 23 after members of the Johannesburg Social Movement (JSM) disrupted proceedings...Read more
Peterson leads Joburg Open as Kruger flies SA flag high
24 February 2017
Photo by: Royal Johannesburg & Kensington Golf Club
Top US golfer Paul Peterson took the lead in the first round of the 2017 Joburg Open with a nine-under 62 on Thursday February 23 before torrential rains and water-logged courses at the Royal Johannesburg & Kensington Golf Club brought play to a premature halt...Read more
City on a mission to minimise lead exposure
27 February 2017
Scores of foundation phase learners and teachers at three Johannesburg primary schools were warned about the dangers of lead during an extensive awareness campaign last week...Read more
Gauteng co-operatives get lift-off
27 February 2017
Gauteng co-operatives were on Friday February 24 brought up to speed with the provisions of the recently amended Co-operatives Act of 2015 at a workshop jointly organised by the national Department of Small Business Development, the Gauteng Department of Economic Development and the City of Johannesburg’s Economic Development Department...Read more
Book for antenatal care early, City urges pregnant mothers
27 February 2017
Antenatal care is an essential part of pregnancy and the City of Johannesburg encourages women to book for it as soon as they find out they are pregnant...Read more
Why Alex has been plagued by a series of power outages
01 February 2017
The spate of power outages that have been plaguing Alexandra and surrounding areas in northern Johannesburg have been linked to rampant and escalating incidents of vandalism of infrastructure and cable theft...Read more
Joburg to host a major climate change indaba
03 February 2017
City of Joburg officials will be hosting a delegation of climate change experts from the City of Paris over a period of five days from February 6 to February 10...Read more
City councillor leads major Jukskei River clean-up drive
03 February 2017
City of Johannesburg Ward 93 councillor Candice James rolled up her sleeves and dirtied her hands as she and her team led a massive mid-morning clean-up campaign along the Jukskei River in Sunninghill, Region A, on Thursday February 2...Read more
All set for second round of ward committee polls
03 February 2017
More than 692 9000 voters are expected to cast their ballots when the City of Johannesburg holds its second round of ward committee elections this weekend...Read more
Mayor vows to beef up security in Vilakazi Street
06 February 2017
Johannesburg Executive Mayor Cllr Herman Mashaba on Friday February 3 announced that the City would in the new financial year employ an extra 1 500 Johannesburg Metro Police Department (JMPD) officers to boost safety and security in Johannesburg...Read more
Alex property rates meeting called off
06 February 2017
The Property Rates Policy review meeting scheduled to take place at East Bank Hall in Alexandra, Region E, on Saturday February 4 was called off due to a poor turnout...Read more
Suspected electoral fraud mars ward committee polls
07 February 2017
More than 51 000 voters in 74 polling stations across three regions – B, C and F – turned out to cast their ballots in the City of Johannesburg’s second round of ward committee elections at the weekend...Read more
Pensioners urge City to change rebates threshold
07 February 2017
Pensioners have expressed unhappiness about the R2-million threshold the City of Johannesburg has put in place for them to qualify for property rates rebates...Read more
City’s property valuation process irks residents
08 February 2017
The City of Johannesburg’s property valuation process came under sharp criticism at a Property Rates Policy review meeting at the Jabula Recreation Centre in Sandringham, Region E, last night...Read more
Reintegration to ‘save the City millions’
08 February 2017
The City of Johannesburg will save a substantial amount of public money – which will probably run into several tens of millions of rands – by reintegrating municipal-owned entities (MOEs) into its fold, according to Member of the Mayoral Committee for Group Corporate and Shared Services Cllr Valencia Ntombi Khumalo...Read more
Mayor Mashaba leads raid of drug dens and brothels
09 February 2017
My child is merely six years old and yet he already knows about drugs that are being peddled around here!”
This is how angry Rosettenville resident Barbara Roberts last night summed up the extent to which drugs have consumed her community...Read more
City spends R111-million on substation upgrade
10 February 2017
The City of Johannesburg has appealed to residents of Fairlands, Berario and Northcliff to exercise patience while the Roosevelt Park substation in Region B is being upgraded to boost power supply in the three suburbs...Read more
Eight million condoms to celebrate Condom Week in Jozi
10 February 2017
To mark this year’s STI-Condom Week - which will be observed from Monday February 13 to Friday February 17 - the City of Johannesburg will distribute more than 8 million male and female condoms to all corners of the metropolis...Read more
City tells student commune owners to pay up
10 February 2017
The City of Johannesburg plans to focus on residential properties that have turned into student accommodation but whose owners have failed to adjust their property rates accordingly...Read more
Woza Albert! reels them in at the Soweto Theatre
13 February 2017
Woza Albert! is back and as riveting as ever. The exhilarating anti-apartheid satire, written by distinguished South African playwrights Percy Mtwa, Mbongeni Ngema and Barney Simon, has been playing to full houses at the Soweto Theatre since its opening night on Wednesday February 8...Read more
Jozi is still committed to fighting climate change
13 February 2017
The City of Johannesburg is fully committed to climate change mitigation and adaptation, Member of the Mayoral Committee for Environment and Infrastructure Services Cllr Anthony Still told a delegation from the City of Paris, France, on Friday February 10 following a week-long conference on the topic in Johannesburg...Read more
Upgraded Orange Grove culverts ‘to boost safety’
14 February 2017
The upgrading of two old underground water pipes lying beneath the Patterson Park South Recreation Centre in Orange Grove in Region E to increase their capacity to carry increased flood water is “progressing very well”...Read more
Orange Grove set for multi-million rand development
15 February 2017
Residents of Orange Grove in Region E were given a glimpse of how their neighbourhood will look like in future when City of Johannesburg officials and developers made presentations on the Louis Botha Road Special Development Zone at Spark Gallery on Monday February 13..Read more
Joburg learners join City in celebrating Wetlands Day
16 February 2017
The importance of wetlands was put high on the agenda when Johannesburg City Parks & Zoo (JCPZ), the City of Johannesburg’s custodian of greening initiatives, celebrated World Wetlands Day with more than 100 learners and community environmental ambassadors at Alberts Farm on Wednesday February 15...Read more
Jozi@Work gives unemployed residents a welcome respite
17 February 2017
Several unemployed Soweto residents are to get much-needed relief after Jozi@Work announced three work packages worth a total of R123 000 to maintain three public clinics over a period of three months...Read more
Residents urged to obey the rules of the road and save lives
20 February 2017
City of Johannesburg Member of the Mayoral Committee for Transport Cllr Nonhlanhla Makhubo has appealed to communities and motorists to always give emergency vehicles – including ambulances, fire engines and police cars – the right of way...Read more
SOPA: Premier agrees with Jozi Mayor on inner city revitalisation
20 February 2017
Gauteng Premier David Makhura says he is in agreement with Johannesburg Executive Mayor Cllr Herman Mashaba that the renewal of the Johannesburg inner city must be tackled jointly by the City, the provincial government and the private sector as a matter of urgency...Read more
City in drive to protect girls against cervical cancer
22 February 2017
The health departments of the City of Johannesburg and the Gauteng Provincial Government have embarked on a joint month-long campaign to vaccinate nine-year-old girls in Grade 4 at both public and special schools against Human Papilloma Virus (HPV)...Read more
EMS officials on high alert as heavy rains pelt Joburg
22 February 2017
The City of Johannesburg’s Disaster Management Centre will continue to monitor flood-prone areas across the city to ensure the safety of residents...Read more
Disappointment as Joburg Open Pro-Am is rained out
23 February 2017
Johannesburg Executive Mayor Cllr Herman Mashaba said he was disappointed that the Joburg Open Pro-Am could not take place at the Royal Johannesburg and Kensington Golf Club on Tuesday February 21 after the playing fields were water-logged and declared unplayable following torrential rains that pelted the city since the weekend...Read more
City in drive to prevent smoking among learners
23 February 2017
The City of Johannesburg’s Environmental Health Department on Wednesday February 22 took its anti-smoking awareness campaign to Troyeville Primary School in Region F in partnership with the South African National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (Sanca)...Read more
Criminals flee Rosettenville as JMPD officers tighten noose
24 February 2017
The situation in Rosettenvile, south of Johannesburg – where furious residents went on the rampage about two weeks ago, attacking what they suspected to be brothels and drug dens – has returned to normal...Read more
City salutes SS Mendi heroes
27 February 2017
There was a sombre and solemn atmosphere at Avalon Cemetery in Soweto on Saturday as the City of Johannesburg and the South African military veterans commemorated the centenary of the sinking of the SS Mendi in the English Channel on 21 February 1917, claiming 646 lives...Read more
Learners put in touch with their futures at career expo
27 February 2017
Grade 12 learners in Soweto were given the opportunity to decide on their future when the City of Johannesburg hosted a Career Expo at the Bramfischerville Community Hall in Region C on Friday February 24...Read more
SA’s Darren Fichardt clinches the Joburg Open
27 February 2017
South Africa 8; the Rest of the World 3. This is how the Joburg Open scoreboard looks like after Darren Fichardt won the 11th edition of the prestigious annual tournament at the Royal Johannesburg and Kensington Golf Club on Sunday February 26, making it the eighth time that the coveted trophy was lifted by a South African golfer...Read more
Meetings Africa indaba under way in Sandton
28 February 2017
More than 600 international, local and regional buyers have converged on Sandton for the 12th edition of Meetings Africa, Pan-Africa’s business tourism annual lekgotla that showcases a range of the best hospitality products and services on offer on the continent...Read more