Soweto residents sign pledge to fight gender-based violence
01 June 2017
The City of Johannesburg is to hold a series of community dialogues in all its seven regions over the next few months in a bid to find solutions to the gender-based violence afflicting communities...Read more
Eclectic and electrifying musical hits Joburg Theatre
01 June 2017
After a very successful three-year run in Lagos, Nigeria, and Davos in Switzerland, the spectacular and award-winning Nigerian musical Kakadu is coming to the Joburg Theatre, where it will be performed on the Mandela Stage from Wednesday June 7 to Sunday June 18...Read more
City's new clean-up drive targets service lanes
02 June 2017
The City of Joburg’s Environmental Health Department and waste management entity Pikitup are to embark on a massive clean-up drive of service lanes in various parts of the inner city...Read more
Reconnect with nature, preserve the environment - MMC De Jager
06 June 2017
The City of Joburg’s Member of the Mayoral Committee for Environment and Infrastructure Services Councillor Nico de Jager said people have distanced themselves from nature...Read more
Rea Vaya, Metrobus App Add convinience to your travels
07 June 2017
Commuting on the City of Joburg’s Rea Vaya Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system and Metrobus has just got better, easier and simpler following the launch of the innovative VayaMoja app...Read more
New app to boost spaza shops in Alex
07 June 2017
An emerging Johannesburg information technology company has developed an application that will enable owners of spaza in Alexandra, in the City of Joburg’s Region E to qualify for generous discounts from suppliers when they buy their stock in bulk – improving their profitability in the process...Read more
City reaffirms support for senior citizens
08 June 2017
Scores of elderly residents of Soweto converged at the Diepkloof Welfare Centre, where they poured their hearts out on a variety of municipal-related challenges affecting them and their wellbeing...Read more
Kakadu brings scintillating performances to Joburg Theatre stage
12 June 2017
Kakadu the Musical is big, bold and captivating.
The play’s 30-plus cast has since Thursday, 8 June been soaking up audiences at the Joburg Theatre through their energetic and exquisitely choreographed music, dance and drama performances...Read more
Hillbrow service lanes cleared of waste
12 June 2017
Officials of the City of Joburg’s Environmental Health Department and waste management entity Pikitup on Friday, 9 June mounted a major cleanup of service lanes in Hillbrow in their ongoing drive to rid the inner city of grime...Read more
City’s Acting Mayor, Speaker to lead June 16 commemorations
14 June 2017
The City of Joburg will over the next few days hold several events in various parts of the Metropolis in commemoration of the 41st anniversary of the June 16, 1976, Soweto uprisings...Read more
City entities tackle service delivery blockages in Florida
15 June 2017
Several City of Johannesburg’s entities descended on Florida in Roodepoort on Monday June 12 to address service delivery breakdowns and blockages as part of Region C’s ongoing Integrated Community Outreach Programme...Read more
Clean-up drive breathes life into Midrand CBD
15 June 2017
City of Joburg entities such as the Johannesburg Roads Agency (JRA), Pikitup, Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD), Johannesburg City Parks & Zoo (JCPZ) and the Johannesburg Property Company (JPC) pooled their resources to give the Midrand central business district a new lease on life...Read more
Umoja makes a welcome return to Soweto Theatre
19 June 2017
If the premier of Africa Umoja: The Spirit of Togetherness at the Soweto Theatre on Thursday June 14 was anything to go by, then Johannesburg theatregoers are in for a huge treat...Read more
Joburg is developing into a public transport friendly city
19 June 2017
With public transport demand expected to almost double by 2040, the City of Johannesburg is increasingly prioritising investment in public transport infrastructure and services across the metropolis...Read more
City has prioritised youth empowerment
19 June 2017
The City of Johannesburg has called on today’s youth to play a leading role in steering South Africa’s political and economic discourse...Read more
Eldos’ Youth Day activities put the spotlight on drug abuse
19 June 2017
The effects of substance abuse on communities were firmly put in the spotlight in Eldorado Park, southern Johannesburg, on Friday June 16 when the City of Johannesburg hosted Mini Olympic Games in commemoration of the 41st anniversary of the 1976 Soweto uprising...Read more
Codessa FC win the 2017 Steven Pienaar tourney
19 June 2017
Codessa Football Club are the 2017 winners of the Steven Pienaar Community Soccer Tournament, named after former Bafana Bafana and Everton FC star Steven Pienaar and supported by the City of Johannesburg...Read more
JOSHCO looking into student and retirement accommodation, CEO reveals
20 June 2017
Anthony Thamsaqa Ngcezula, the recently appointed CEO of JOSHCO, the City of Johannesburg’s social housing company, has described his first 100 days at the helm of the entity as “challenging but fulfilling”...Read more
Bollywood vibe set to grip the Joburg Theatre
20 June 2017
APassage to Bollywood, a vibrant stage musical with foot-tapping music, colourful costumes and a gripping plot that keeps audiences on the edge of their seats, is about to hit the Joburg Theatre, one of the City of Johannesburg’s foremost entertainment venues...Read more
City dialogues give youth a platform to chart the future
21 June 2017
The lack of access to education funding, corruption, nepotism, mismatched skills, inexperience and weak social and professional networks were holding the country back despite the many changes in South Africa since the dawn of democracy in 1994...Read more
Get close and intimate with your city – join #JoziWalks
22 June 2017
Hundreds of Johannesburg residents will this weekend have the rare opportunity to intimately explore and experience their neighbourhoods and backyards when they take part in a total of 13 guided tours of some of the most exquisite and unique places in the city...Read more
Speaker says the elderly must stand up and be counted
23 June 2017
The City of Johannesburg’s Speaker of Council, Cllr Vasco da Gama, has urged senior citizens to stand up and be counted and not only point fingers if they want their neighbourhoods to be improved...Read more
Fleurhof development steadily gathering pace
26 June 2017
Social and health facilities such as libraries and clinics, a community centre and a taxi facility are on the cards for residents of Fleurhof, one of the largest integrated housing developments in Gauteng...Read more
Klipvalley Primary School wins City’s waste recycling award
26 June 2017
Jubilation and ululation filled the air when Klipvalley Primary School was presented with the first prize of the Healthy Living Through Recycling Awards at the Dorothy Nyembe Environmental Education Centre in Mofolo South, Soweto, in Region D on Friday June 23...Read more
Passage to Bollywood a simply bedazzling show
26 June 2017
Iwent prepared to be thrilled, to be wowed by the vibrant colours of their outfits and to be energised by their dancing and music. I was not disappointed...Read more
Approval delays costing us, outdoor advertisers tell Joburg
28 June 2017
Outdoor advertising companies say the City of Johannesburg is making it difficult for them to operate as delays in the approval of applications are crippling their businesses, causing many of them to lose clients and shed jobs...Read more
MMC calls for patience over Fourways developments
29 June 2017
City of Joburg Member of the Mayoral Committee for Public Safety Cllr Michael Sun has appealed to all stakeholders around the Fourways business precinct to exercise patience over the road upgrades and other major developments taking place in the area...Read more
Outdoor advertising industry calls for transparency
29 June 2017
Helen Botes, the Chief Executive Officer of the Johannesburg Property Company (JPC), the City of Johannesburg’s property management entity, has explained why some of the applications for outdoor advertising took too long for the City to approve...Read more
City to spend R30-million in the war against drugs
01 June 2017
The City of Johannesburg is to spend more than R30-million to pilot an anti-substance abuse programme at five primary healthcare facilities as it steps up its fight against the drugs scourge afflicting many communities in the city...Read more
City hands out 1 000 safety kits in Zandspruit
02 June 2017
The City of Joburg is to distribute 1 000 Jozi safety kits across all informal settlements this winter as it steps up its efforts to prevent deadly fires in these communities...Read more
Forming co-operatives may boost your business
05 June 2017
Amere business idea - not money - is enough to turn one into a successful businessperson.
These are the sentiments of Mohapi Molaoa, Director of Business Opportunities in the Gauteng Department of Economic Development Department...Read more
Recycle to minimise waste - Mayor Mashaba
06 June 2017
The City of Joburg has allocated Pikitup more than R2.4-Billion in the 2017/18 financial year for waste management, including the clearing of illegal dumping sites across the municipality...Read more
100 Jozi entrepreneurs in line export training
07 June 2017
The City of Joburg seeks to train at least 100 entrepreneurs in the manufacturing sector in export development over the next nine months...Read more
New play revisits the 1976 Soweto uprising
07 June 2017
76 Behind Peterson, a new play about the June 16 1976 Soweto uprising written by Themba Mnyando, is packing them in at the Roodepoort Theatre ahead of the 41st anniversary of the day when apartheid police shot and killed school children peacefully protesting against the use of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in black schools...Read more
Hillbrow’s Ekhaya Park gets new lease on life
08 June 2017
The “green jewel of the Johannesburg inner city’s crown” – Ekhaya Park in Hillbrow – has received a major shot in the arm and is, once again, open to the public...Read more
City, province strengthen the hand of the youth
12 June 2017
The City of Joburg and other municipalities in Gauteng are in partnership with the Gauteng Provincial Government to host a 10-day youth exhibition at the Nasrec Expo Centre, outside Soweto...Read more
MMC Sun casts spotlight on scourge of violence against City’s vulnerable
12 June 2017
With South Africans still reeling from the recent spate of killings of women and children, members of the Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD) on Friday, 9 June joined their South African Police Service (SAPS) counterparts in the Johannesburg inner city in a march against the scourge...Read more
City launches improved Extended Social Package
12 June 2017
Johannesburg Member of the Mayoral Committee for Health and Social Development Dr Mpho Phalatse has launched an improved and more accessible Extended Social Package (ESP) to provide much-needed relief to the city’s indigent and vulnerable households...Raed more
City Power goes hi-tech to put a stop to power outages
14 June 2017
City Power, the City of Johannesburg’s electricity utility, on Tuesday June 13 conducted the first-ever mobile onsite testing on high-voltage power transformers in South Africa at the Delta substation in Hurlingham, near Sandton, as part of its ongoing initiatives to ensure that long and extended power outages in Johannesburg are a thing of the past...Read more
City urges residents to blow the whistle on illegal waste dumpers
15 June 2017
The City of Johannesburg Member of Mayoral Committee for Environment and Infrastructure Services Cllr Nico de Jager led a major clean-up drive in Zandspruit in Region C on Wednesday June 14 during which he emphasised the importance of reducing, reusing and recycling waste to create a cleaner, better and healthier environment...Read more
Joburg launches Women Safety Campaign
15 June 2017
With the recent spate of gruesome killings of women and children still dominating the public discourse throughout the country, the City of Johannesburg’s Public Safety Department has encouraged women to learn self-defence techniques to protect themselves against attackers...Read more
Johannesburg honours 1976 youth leader Seth Mazibuko
19 June 2017
The City of Johannesburg honoured Seth Mazibuko, one of the most prominent leaders of the June 16 1976 Soweto uprising, when it declared his house a heritage site during the 41st anniversary of that fateful day on Friday...Read more
Tax incentives still available for inner city renewal investments
19 June 2017
Developers and buyers who want to contribute to the rejuvenation of the Johannesburg inner city can still qualify for generous tax benefits after the Urban Development Zone (UDZ) tax incentive scheme was extended by six years...Read more
City honours Alex’s first victim of the 1976 uprising
19 June 2017
The City of Johannesburg honoured Japie Vilankulu, Alexandra’s first victim of the June 1976 youth uprising, when Council Speaker Cllr Vasco da Gama laid a wreath on his grave at the Alexandra Cemetery on Saturday June 17...Read more
The JRA undertakes major repairs on the Robinson Canal
20 June 2017
The first phase of the upgrading of Robinson Canal currently being carried out by the Johannesburg Roads Agency (JRA) to minimise urban and residential flooding is expected to be completed by the end of this month, according to the City of Johannesburg’s Member of the Mayoral Committee for Transport, Cllr Nonhlanhla Makhuba...Read more
Rea Vaya and Metrobus fares to go up on July 1
20 June 2017
From Saturday July 1 commuters who use the City of Johannesburg’s two bus passenger services – the Rea Vaya Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system and Metrobus – will pay more for their rides...Read more
Informal settlement receives 100 winter fire safety kits
21 June 2017
The residents of Embuzini informal settlement in Mlamlankunzi, Soweto, on Tuesday June 20 became the fourth set of recipients of the Jozi safety kits after City of Johannesburg Member of the Mayoral Committee for Public Safety Cllr Michael Sun launched the City’s 2017 Winter Fire Safety Campaign this month...Read more
Businesses call on City to act against illegal advertisers
21 June 2017
Businesspeople have raised their displeasure at the continued presence of illegal advertising billboards, posters and signs in Johannesburg and have called on the City to act decisively against the offenders...Read more
City holds outdoor advertising indaba
23 June 2017
Representatives of the outdoor advertising industry have cautioned the City of Johannesburg not to implement the new draft by-laws in a manner that would drive them away from using the platform to promote their brands as this would cost the City much-needed revenue...Read more
MMC calls on the poor to register for ESP benefits
23 June 2017
The City of Johannesburg’s Member of the Mayoral Committee for Health and Social Development, Cllr Mpho Phalatse, has called on all the city’s indigent residents to register or re-register for the recently launched, much improved and more accessible Extended Social Package (ESP)...Read more
Hillbrow residents vow to stop illegal dumping
26 June 2017
The City of Johannesburg’s Department of Environmental Health on Friday June 23 concluded its month-long waste management campaign targeting service lanes in Hillbrow in Region F...Read more
Free ride by illegal outdoor advertisers set to end
26 June 2017
In another meeting between officials of the City of Johannesburg’s Development Planning Department and other stakeholders in the outdoor advertising industry, media companies called for stricter measures to be imposed on the transgressors of the applicable by-laws to ensure fairness among all the players...Read more
Electricity fraudsters face the music as amnesty ends
28 June 2017
Time is running out for the City of Johannesburg customers who have tampered with their electricity meters to avoid paying for their power consumption...Read more
Open Day connects youth to employment opportunities
29 June 2017
As part of Youth Month celebrations, the City of Johannesburg on Wednesday June 28 hosted a Youth Open Day at Naledi Community Hall in Soweto, Region D, to assist the youth gain access to employment and economic opportunities...Read more
Joburg uses knowledge management to lift service delivery
30 June 2017
The City of Joburg’s Innovation and Knowledge Management Unit hosted its second annual Open Day at the Metro Centre in Braamfontein on Thursday June 29 to embed and promote a culture of learning among City employees...Read more