JMPD keeps the peace during New Year festivities
04 January 2016
Festivities marking the dawn of the New Year went off without major unlawful incidents in Johannesburg at the weekend thanks to the joint operations carried out by the Johannesburg Metro Police Department (JMPD), South African Police Service, Emergency Management Services and Disaster Management Services throughout the city...Read more
Sad farewell for burn victim Zestah September
11 January 2016
Zestah September, whose badly burnt body was found on the side of the road in Lenasia at the end of last year, was given an emotional send-off in Pimville, Soweto, on Saturday January 9...Read more
Magic returns to Joburg Theatre
12 January 2016
Queen – It’s A Kinda Magic (QIAKM) is just the magic theatre-goers need to kick-start the new year...Read more
Moulding Jozi’s future golf champs
14 January 2016
Enoch Dineka will not forget Wednesday January 13 in a hurry...Read more
Joburg takes water to Senekal
15 January 2016
The City of Johannesburg has thrown its weight behind efforts to assist Senekal, a North West town whose taps have run dry in the wake of the devastating drought gripping the country...Read more
Young, talented SA golfers dominate Joburg Open
18 January 2016
Twenty-one-year-old Johannesburg golfer Haydn Porteous became R2.6-million richer yesterday after winning the 2016 Joburg Open at the Royal Johannesburg and Kensington Golf Club in Linkfield North...Read more
Soweto Theatre sets the stage for new actors
25 January 2016
Some of the country’s most successful television actors honed their skills in theatre. It is against this background that Soweto Theatre, one of the City of Johannesburg’s most preferred entertainment hubs, has for the past two years been running a development programme for aspirant young actors...Read more
Let us collect your bulk waste – Pikitup
25 January 2016
Do you have an old and unused refrigerator in your garden that you want to get rid of but don’t have the wherewithal to do so?...Read more
JRA injects millions into M1 bridge revamp
27 January 2016
Flash flooding on one of Johannesburg’s major freeways will soon be a thing of the past following the commencement of rehabilitation and structural repair work by the Johannesburg Roads Agency (JRA) on the M1 double-decker bridge between Carr and Anderson streets, Johannesburg...Read more
Municipal polls to increase size of the City’s legislature
29 January 2016
The forthcoming and much-awaited local government elections will bring about important change in the City of Johannesburg’s legislature...Read more
Annual report shows positive outlook for Joburg
29 January 2016
The City of Johannesburg is in good hands. This was said by Member of the Mayoral Committee for Finance Councillor Geoffrey Makhubo during the tabling of the City’s 2014-2015 draft annual report at Emoyeni Conference Centre in Parktown yesterday...Read more
Municipal polls to increase size of the City’s legislature
29 January 2016
The forthcoming and much-awaited local government elections will bring about important change in the City of Johannesburg’s legislature...Read more
Thousands mourn slain student Palesa Madiba
11 January 2016
There was no dry eye in the auditorium of the Soweto campus of the University of Johannesburg (UJ) on Saturday January 9 where more than 2 000 mourners had gathered to bid farewell to murdered student Palesa Madiba...Read more
Els to swing it at Joburg Open
12 January 2016
South African golfing sensation Ernie Els will be one of the biggest local and international names that will grace the 10th edition of the Joburg Open when it tees off at the majestic Royal Johannesburg and Kensington Golf Course in Lombardy East on Thursday January 14...Read more
Joburg Open gets under way
14 January 2016
The 10th edition of the prestigious Joburg Open is under way at the Royal Johannesburg and Kensington Golf Club in Linksfield North...Read more
Another young Joburg woman found burnt to death
14 January 2016
Johannesburg has been rocked by yet another gruesome murder...Read more
Joburg Open first round raises SA’s hopes
15 January 2016
When South African-born Justin Walters shot to the top of the leaderboard in the first round of the Joburg Open with a seven under-par 65 yesterday, a lot of people’s chests swelled with pride...Read more
Joburg Theatre relives Freddy Mercury's magic
18 January 2016
Englishman Giles Taylor was so convincing in his performance as Freddie Mercury during the Queen: It’s Kinda Magic show at the Joburg Theatre on Saturday night that, at the end of the pulsating two-hour rock offering, I was ready to come out of the closet and declare myself a rock 'n roll fan...Read more
City spreads healthy living culture to 250 schools
25 January 2016
The City of Johannesburg’s Go Jozi Healthy Lifestyle Schools Programme is to be rolled out to more schools this year.
The rewards-based Discovery-Vitality Healthy Lifestyle Schools Programme was launched last year by Executive Mayor Councillor Parks Tau at Ponelopele Oracle Secondary School in Ivory Park, near Tembisa...Read more
City acts to mitigate drought
27 January 2016
The drought currently gripping the country is taking its toll on Johannesburg citizens – especially the poor – as food prices shoot through the roof...Read more
City clamps down on illegal power connections
28 January 2016
Asix-hour joint operation by City Power, Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD) and the South African Police Service (SAPS) at the Princess Crossing informal settlement in Roodepoort on Wednesday January 27 resulted in the removal of several loads of volatile electric wires used by residents to connect power illegally...Read more
A trip down Memory Lane with Woza Albert! in Jozi
29 January 2016
During the dark and desolate days of apartheid, blacks used dance, satire and song to lighten the heavy yoke of oppression and bring a semblance of normality in their harsh lives. It was in those difficult times that Woza Albert!, a theatrical piece written more than three decades ago by Percy Mtwa, Mbongeni Ngema and Barney Simon, burst onto world stages with an irreverent view of the atrocities of apartheid...Read more
Joburg tackles illegal outdoor advertising
29 January 2016
More than half of outdoor advertising billboards, banners and posters in Johannesburg have been illegally erected and do not comply with the applicable Outdoor Advertising bylaws, says Jack Sekgobela, the City of Johannesburg’s Outdoor Advertising Operations Manager...Read more