President, Mayor bring electricity to Thembelihle Informal Settlement
01 July 2016
The people of Thembelihle Informal Settlement near Lenasia now have electricity in their homes...Read more
‘Blesser-blessee’ relations condemned at dialogue
01 July 2016
Iget really angry when I hear the term blesser-blessee because only God can bless one,” well-known radio and TV personality Penny Lebyane said during a discussion on the controversy surrounding the dating of young women by old men, usually with deep pockets...Read more
Mayor Tau to account to residents in term report
05 July 2016
Johannesburg Executive Mayor Cllr Parks Tau will tomorrow, Wednesday July 6, deliver his end-of-term report in which he will reflect on the performance of his administration over the past five years...Read more
EMS hands out safety kits at informal settlement
06 July 2016
The City of Johannesburg’s Emergency Management Services (EMS) on Tuesday July 5 EMS took its annual winter safety campaign to Mangolongolo informal settlement in Denver, eastern Johannesburg, where it distributed 250 Jozi safety kits and provided residents with vital information to help combat the outbreak of fires, which often result in serious injuries or fatalities...Read more
End of Term report notes reduction in poverty
07 July 2016
The number of people who go to bed hungry in Johannesburg has been drastically reduced over the past five years, but Executive Mayor Cllr Parks Tau is not entirely satisfied with the achievement so far as many households still live in poverty...Read more
SMMEs to get a slice of a R9-million cake
07 July 2016
Several small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) in the City of Johannesburg’s Region E will have the opportunity to get involved as sub-contractors in the multimillion-rand refurbishment of a Johannesburg Water property in Zandfontein, Kramerville...Read more
City launches R400-m transport facility in Kazerne
08 July 2016
The Executive Mayor of Johannesburg, Councillor Parks Tau, and several Members of the Mayoral Committee, turned the sod in Newtown on Thursday July 7 to officially kick-start the construction of a multimillion-rand intermodal transport facility...Read more
Jozi Mayor, others pledge to uphold electoral code
11 July 2016
Atotal of 27 political parties and 32 independent candidates gathered at the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg on Saturday July 9 to sign a pledge to uphold the Electoral Code of Conduct as prescribed in the Municipal Electoral Act 27 of 2000 at an electoral seminar organised by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC)...Read more
Mayoral Golf Day raises R1.2-m for orphans
13 July 2016
The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) Education Trust, set up a few years ago to assist with the education of children of soldiers who died in defence of their country, received another financial boost from the City of Johannesburg this week...Read more
City pumping R3bn into Jabulani Precinct
13 July 2016
Plans to further transform the Jabulani Precinct in Soweto into a modern and world-class urban space have been completed...Read more
Dobsonville JOSHCO flats set for occupation
13 July 2016
The development of 502 social housing units in Dobsonville, Soweto, is expected to be completed by December, with tenants set to move in as soon as early next year...Read more
Innovative Letsoso scoops top Soweto business award
14 July 2016
Young Nthabiseng Letsoso is the inaugural overall winner of the Soweto Business Stars Awards, a new City of Johannesburg business competition that seeks to acknowledge entrepreneurs in the township who run their businesses in an innovative way...Read more
Mayor Tau hands out title deeds to Soweto residents
15 July 2016
Ululations and whistles reverberated across the Pimville Hall in Soweto as Johannesburg Executive Mayor Cllr Parks Tau handed out title deeds to more than 240 jubilant and ecstatic property owners on Thursday July 14...Read more
Healthy Joburg Bread in the oven near you
15 July 2016
Johannesburg Executive Mayor Cllr Parks Tau officially launched Joburg Bread at the Pimville Skills Centre in Soweto on Thursday July 14...Read more
All you need to know about voting
15 July 2016
As the August 3 local government elections draw nearer, it is important for eligible voters to know the dos and don’ts of voting.
With so many political parties and candidates to choose from – 200 and 61 000 respectively – the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) is hoping for a high voter turnout...Read more
City gives Eyethu Centre a birthday gift on Madiba Day
19 July 2016
Johannesburg City Parks & Zoo (JPC&Z) staffers spent Mandela Day on Monday July 18 at the Eyethu Centre for the Disabled in Mofolo South, Soweto, sprucing it up and giving it a new lease of life in honour of the late former president and international icon’s legacy...Read more
City gives aftercare centre a facelift on Mandela Day
19 July 2016
Noah’s Ark, an aftercare centre for disadvantaged children in Yeoville, assumed a new look on Monday July 18 when staff from Johannesburg Theatres – the City of Johannesburg cultural and entertainment entity – gave it a fresh coat of paint in celebration of the International Nelson Mandela Day...Read more
JMPD unveils specialised vehicles to enhance safety
20 July 2016
The City of Johannesburg on Tuesday July 19 unveiled four new specialised vehicles to strengthen its public safety initiatives...Read more
Emotions as shack dwellers move into new City homes
21 July 2016
The Member of the Mayoral Committee (MMC) for Housing in the City of Johannesburg allocated newly built low-cost house in Kliptown at a moving handover ceremony at the Soweto Hotel today (Wednesday July 30)...Read more
Socioeconomic Conference for Women in Business off to good start
22 July 2016
South Africa’s economic system at present functioned at a fraction of its potential, with a high number of women excluded from socioeconomic opportunities, Councillor Ruby Mathang, Member of the Mayoral Committee for Economic Development in the City of Johannesburg, said on Tuesday July 19...Read more
Mayor Tau walks the talk to highlight dangers of drug abuse
22 July 2016
Johannesburg Executive Mayor Cllr Parks Tau will on Sunday June 24 lead from the front to highlight the adverse effects of alcohol and substance abuse when he takes part in the 16th edition of the 702 Walk the Talk, one of the most important events on the city’s social calendar...Read more
City in call to make golf accessible to everyone
22 July 2016
The Chairperson of the City of Johannesburg’s Section 79 Community Development Oversight Committee, Councillor Zarina Motala, has called on golfing organisations and the sport’s administrators to partner with the City in the implementation of its vision to develop the sport at grassroots level and in disadvantaged communities...Read more
Socioeconomic conference empowers women entrepreneurs
27 July 2016
The City of Johannesburg has forged partnerships with several non-governmental organisations and is spearheading a suite of programmes and initiatives to empower women and address their economic and social needs...Read more
Time to shop till you drop at the Joburg Shopping Festival
27 July 2016
Forget the one-day black Friday deals for a moment because Johannesburg's ultimate shopping extravaganza is upon us...Read more
Over 400 social housing units to be built in Lufhereng
28 July 2016
The City of Johannesburg’s Member of the Mayoral Committee for Housing Cllr Dan Bovu on Wednesday July 27 launched the Lufhereng Social Housing Project, an initiative of the Johannesburg Social Housing Company (JOSHCO)...Read more
Mayor unveils R260m Lufhereng Substation
28 July 2016
Johannesburg Executive Mayor Cllr Parks Tau officially opened the R260-million Lufhereng Substation on Wednesday July 26...Read more
Military veterans welcome City’s housing policies
28 July 2016
The City of Johannesburg’s comprehensive housing policy has been commended as “bold and progressive” by Deputy Minister of Defence and Military Veterans Kebby Maphatsoe...Read more
Joburg scoops top SAPI planning award
29 July 2016
The City of Johannesburg recently added another feather to its cap when it scooped a South African Planning Institute (SAPI) award for its Spatial Planning Framework 2040...Read more
City gives deaf learners taste of the music industry
29 July 2016
Smiles were written on the faces of the learners from the Sizwile School for the Deaf as they were being given the lowdown on the glamorous but challenging music industry during the Geleza Kleva and Learn workshop at the Chiawelo Community Centre, Soweto, on Thursday July 28...Read more
More residents move into new homes in Fleurhof
30 July 2016
More names on the City of Johannesburg's 96/97 housing waiting list are being scratched off as more families move to new and permanent addresses - homes they can now call their own...Read more
Major training boost for City’s small-scale farmers
01 July 2016
The City of Johannesburg is training 16 small-scale farmers as part of the Department of Health and Social Development’s ongoing drive to equip previously marginalised groups with skills to develop their businesses and banish hunger and poverty...Read more
Food relief for scores of poor City residents
04 July 2016
More 200 indigent, poor, elderly and other vulnerable residents of Newlands and Sophiatown, in the City of Johannesburg’s Region B, were overjoyed when officials from the City’s Health and Social Development Department provided them with food hampers on Sunday July 3...Read more
Mayor Tau unveils the new-look Bruma Lake
06 July 2016
More infrastructure development projects are in the pipeline to rejuvenate the area around the iconic Bruma Lake, which had fallen on hard times as a result of excessive pollution but has since been rehabilitated by the City of Johannesburg at a cost of R71.5-million...Read more
Mayor Tau details progress in City’s End-of-Term Report
07 July 2016
Despite the many significant milestones and service delivery successes the City of Johannesburg had achieved over the past five years, socioeconomic transformation remained one of the most important challenges that still had to be tackled going forward, Johannesburg Executive Mayor Cllr Parks Tau said on Wednesday July 6...Read more
Jozi SME Hub ‘is growing from strength to strength’
07 July 2016
The Jozi SME Hub, a City of Johannesburg flagship programme, should tap into supply chains to create more opportunities for small businesses, Johannesburg Executive Mayor Cllr Parks Tau said on Wednesday July 6...Read more
Turffontein ready for major social housing project
08 July 2016
Johannesburg Executive Mayor Cllr Parks Tau on Thursday July 7 broke ground in Turffontein, southern Johannesburg, paving the way to the development of social housing in an area described as “Johannesburg's icon of integration”...Read more
Pikitup MD Amanda Nair remains on special leave
08 July 2016
Johannesburg Water Managing Director Lungile Dhlamini has been appointed acting Managing Director of Pikitup, the City of Johannesburg's waste management entity...Read more
City unveils first township business incubator
12 July 2016
The City of Johannesburg on Tuesday, 12 July 2016, unveiled the first JoziMyBeginning Community Innovation Fund Micro-Mall in Ivory Park which is set to break down barriers into the metropolitan’s economy for entrepreneurs and community-based enterprises...Read more
City launches low-flush cistern to conserve water
13 July 2016
In an unprecedented move, the City of Johannesburg has launched an innovative low-flush cistern that will significantly reduce water consumption and demand...Read more
New micro mall gives Ivory Park entrepreneurs a big lift-off
13 July 2016
Entrepreneurship was taken to a new level in Ivory Park, near Midrand, in the City of Johannesburg’s Region A when Executive Mayor Cllr Parks Tau unveiled the first Jozi Micro Park on Tuesday July 12...Read more
City gives Jozi’s youth the key to opportunities
14 July 2016
In a bid to increase youth access to empowerment and employment opportunities, the City of Johannesburg showcased several offerings at a Youth Stakeholder Engagement session in Naledi, Soweto, on Wednesday July 13...Read more
Scores of Soweto families move into brand new homes
14 July 2016
More than 120 families from the Protea South informal settlement in Soweto, Region D, will soon move into their brand new homes in the multimillion-rand integrated Lufhereng housing development, west of Dobsonville...Read more
Mayor hands over converted Jabulani Hostel units
15 July 2016
My daughter has a place she can call home at last,” exclaimed Thembalethu Mtshali, a hostel resident whose life changed dramatically on Thursday July 14 after Johannesburg Executive Mayor Cllr Parks Tau handed her the keys to a modern two-bedroomed apartment...Read more
Joburg to honour Madiba during Mandela Month
15 July 2016
The City of Joh annesburg will stage a series of events and activities to celebrate the birthday of South Africa’s struggle icon and international statesman – Nelson Rolinhlanhla Mandela...Read more
Jozi@Work dishes out jobs to Alex residents
18 July 2016
Six suitably qualified co-operatives and small township businesses in the City of Johannesburg’s Region E are to shortly partner with the City under the Jozi@Work Programme to undertake massive maintenance and cleaning work at all three single-sex hostels in Alexandra...Read more
Mayor Tau spreads Madiba Day cheer at old age home
19 July 2016
More than 110 senior citizens at Ithuteng Old Age Home in Zone 4 Meadowlands, Soweto, had a day of their lives on Monday July 18 when Johannesburg Executive Mayor Cllr Parks Tau celebrated International Nelson Mandela with them...Read more
Sephuma mentors budding musicians at Jozi workshop
20 July 2016
Aspiring young artists were given a feel of the music industry and how to navigate its corners and contours at a Geleza Kleva and Learn workshop in Diepsloot last week as part of the build-up to this year’s Standard Bank Joy of Jazz Festival...Read more
More informal settlements in Joburg get electricity
20 July 2016
More than 12 850 homes in four Johannesburg informal settlements have been electrified over the past financial year – and more are in line of being switched on in the coming months as the City of Johannesburg’s multimillion-rand electrification programme gathers pace...Read more
Mayor addresses power outages in northern suburbs
21 July 2016
City Power, the City of Johannesburg’s electricity utility, is considering the possibility of replacing copper cable with aerial conductor cable – which is made of aluminium – to bring power outages caused by rampant incidents of cable theft to an end...Read more
Mayor Tau gives two Jozi Olympians a great send-off
22 July 2016
Gauteng Premier David Makhura, Johannesburg Executive Mayor Cllr Parks Tau and former Bafana Bafana and Everton FC star Steven Pienaar joined the Westbury community on Thursday July 21 to give two local soccer players who will be representing South Africa in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, Brazil, a rousing send-off...Read more
Soweto learners given an easy ride to school
22 July 2016
For Sinenjabulo Nkala, going to school had been a drag...Read more
Joburg Mayor Tau walks the talk to a drug-free city
25 July 2016
Johannesburg’s first citizen – Executive Mayor Cllr Mpho Parks Tau – led from the front in highlighting the dangers of drug and substance abuse when he took part in the 16th edition of the 702 Walk the Talk event on Sunday July 14...Read more
Mayor Tau ready for CEO SleepOut
27 July 2016
With snow blanketing many parts of the country, rain coming down in bucket loads and temperatures plummeting to one of their lowest levels this winter, this year’s 702-Sun International CEO SleepOut initiative is most likely to take place under extremely harsh weather conditions...Read more
Final push to reach #Nappies4Dignity 1 million mark
27 July 2016
Johannesburg Water is still accepting donations of adult nappies until 31 July 2016.Donations can be dropped off at any of the Johannesburg Water depots around the city...Read more
Metrobus takes the lead to Jozi’s green future
27 July 2016
The City of Johannesburg’s Member of Mayoral Committee for Transport Cllr Christine Walters and Gauteng MEC for Transport Ismail Vadi visited bus manufacturer Busmark in Randfontein on the West Rand on Tuesday July 26 to inspect dual fuel buses the company is building for Sandown Motor Holdings on behalf of Metrobus...Read more
Mayor hands families keys to new homes in Lufhereng
28 July 2016
Johannesburg Executive Mayor Cllr Parks Tau unveiled the second phase of the Lufhereng Integrated Housing Development, west of Soweto, on Wednesday July 27 when he handed over house keys to five of the 120 families earmarked for resettlement from informal settlements in Protea South and other parts of Soweto...Read more
Minister Nzimande, MEC Lesufi praise City’s Matric rewrite programme
28 July 2016
Higher Education and Training Minister Dr Blade Nzimande and Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi have endorsed the City of Johannesburg’s Vulindlel’ eJozi’s Matric Rewrite Programme...Read more
Mayor highlights plight of the homeless in CEO SleepOut
29 July 2016
Johannesburg Executive Mayor Cllr Parks Tau on Thursday July 28 braved the biting wintry cold and spent the night under the Nelson Mandela Bridge in Braamfontein to highlight the plight of the homeless and raise funds for the poor...Read more
City, Microsoft in R200m deal to empower the poor
29 July 2016
More than one million young and older people in some of Johannesburg’s disadvantaged areas are to be provided with free basic computer skills training thanks to an unprecedented R200-million partnership between the City of Johannesburg and leading global software company Microsoft...Read more