City promotes cycling to beat diabetes
07-11-2014
Diabetes can be managed with regular exercise and a healthy diet.
This is the key message the City of Johannesburg is spreading to its residents, through its partnership in the Novo Nordisk Changing Diabetes – Cycle for Change relay. Read more
Bylaw compliance on the upward trend in Melville
11-11-2014
An increasing number of businesses in the Melville area, in the City of Johannesburg’s Region B, are complying with municipal bylaws. Read more
Mayor Tau to unveil R2 billion mixed residential development
10-11-2014
Johannesburg Executive Mayor Councillor Mpho Parks Tau will tomorrow (Tuesday November 11) unveil a R1.95 billion mixed residential development in South Hills, southern Johannesburg, in a move aimed at reversing apartheid’s spatial planning and integrating communities. Read more
Joburg gets ready for the Momentum 94.7 Cycle Challenge
12-11-2014
It’s all systems go for another memorable Momentum 94.7 Cycle Challenge on Sunday. Read more
A R1.9 billion housing jewel emerges in Jozi
12-11-2014
“People who used to say the South is long dead and buried had better wait and see. The old South is rising and it’s going to be a jewel in the City of Johannesburg’s crown,” Executive Mayor Mpho Parks Tau said at the launch of the R1.95 billion South Hills mixed housing development yesterday. Read more
Jozi@Work “to take many out of poverty
13-11-2014
"This is probably the last Christmas I will spend in poverty," a woman's voice was heard saying in the midst of a mass of people shuffling out of a community hall in Finetown, south of Johannesburg. Read more
Jozi on top of the world – again
17-11-2014
It has been confirmed: Johannesburg is a world-class African city.
According to the 2014 Good City Index, Jozi is the second-most inspiring city in the world. Read more
Mayor leads by example in 94.7 cycle challenge
17-11-2014
Johannesburg Executive Mayor Mpho Parks Tau donned his City of Joburg-branded cycling gear, saddled up and joined 35 000 cyclists and fitness fanatics who took part in the 18th edition of the Momentum 94.7 Cycle Challenge on Sunday 16 November. Read more
Jozi comes out tops - again
18-11-2014
It has been confirmed: Johannesburg is a world class African city.
According to the 2014 Good City Index, Jozi is the second-most inspiring city in the world – after Hong Kong. Read more
Jozi@Work inspires the youth to get down to business
18-11-2014
With the registration drive for Jozi@Work programme beginning to draw to a close, Johannesburg residents are flocking to its briefing and registration venues in bigger numbers to learn how they could improve the quality of their lives. Read more
A multi-entity City team in a big clean-up drive in Midrand
19-11-2014
A multi-entity and integrated City of Johannesburg team led by the Johannesburg Roads Agency (JRA) carried out a massive service delivery and clean-up campaign in and around the Midrand Central Business District (CBD) in Region A despite torrential rains that fell over the city in the past two weeks. Read more
Jozi@Work: Youth vow to make it work
20-11-2014
Nomsa Ntsele and Nompumelelo Nyembe were among more than 350 people who attended a Jozi@Work briefing and registration session in Doornkop Extension 2 in Region C on Wednesday. Read more
Schools provide lessons on how to tackle effects of climate change
20-11-2014
The Climate Proofing Project, which is run and managed by non-governmental organisation Green Beings in partnership with the City of Johannesburg, intends turning schools into eco-friendly institutions with an integrated learning curriculum. Read more
A beautiful barn owls experience in Ivory Park
24-11-2014
If humans could overcome the urge to control and damage the environment and learn to co-exist with nature, a powerful collaboration that presents a win-win future could be achieved. Read more
Jozi@Work awakens entrepreneurship spirit
25-11-2014
“I’ve been asking myself whether business opportunities were reserved for a select few. Now I have hope and soon I’ll wave goodbye to poverty,” said Sipho Mlonzi at a Jozi@Work registration and briefing session at the Zakariyya Park Community Hall in Zakariyya Park, Region G, on Monday November 24. Read more
Beautiful experience with Barn Owls in Ivory Park
27-11-2014
If humans could overcome the urge to damage the environment and learn to co-exist with nature, a powerful collaboration that presents a win-win future could be achieved. Read more
City officials take local government to the people
27-11-2014
Scores of South Hills residents in Joburg’s Region F were given a platform to “open up” and raise critical municipal-related issues affecting their daily lives when the City held an integrated Open Day session in Steeledale, southern Johannesburg, on Wednesday November 26. Read more
No break in the provision of municipal services
27-11-2014
Municipal services will not be compromised during the festive season.
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City throws safety rings around parks
28-11-2014
Holidaymakers who want to visit the City of Johannesburg’s open spaces during the December holidays do not have to look over their shoulder while partaking in the niceties that go with the festive season – Johannesburg City Parks & Zoo (JCPZ) has made safety at these entertainment venues a top priority. Read more
Hundreds of residents embrace healthy lifestyle
01-12-2014
The Go Jozi healthy lifestyle campaign – initiated by Johannesburg Executive Mayor Councillor Parks Tau in Thokoza Park, Soweto, in May last year to boost the city’s life expectancy – has moved up a gear. Read more
MMC Greeff dirties her hands in Kliprivier Road clean-up drive
11-11-2014
Johannesburg Member of the Mayoral Committee for Development Planning and Urban Management Councillor Ros Greeff marshalled her troops rolled up her sleeves and led by example during an integrated clean-up campaign along Kliprivier Road, between Rifle Range and Turf Club Street, in Turffontein, at the weekend.
Jozi@Work Registration Drive Momentum
11-11-2014
This week is set to be yet another busy one for the facilitators of the Jozi@Work programme as the briefing and registration process of companies and cooperatives for the City’s unprecedented mass empowerment and job creation initiative picks up pace. Read more
Ivory Park gravel roads get a multi-million rand makeover
12-11-2014
The Ivory Park Gravel Roads Improvement Project is in full swing. Read more
No place for graft in Jozi, says MMC Makhubo
13-11-2014
Johannesburg was well-positioned to seize the lion’s share of investment flowing into the country but crime, a lack of efficiency of government officials, unreliable electricity supply and poor internet connectivity were some of the challenges blocking its way to realising its potential. Read more
City spends R30 million on new public lighting systems
13-11-2014
Developing areas in the Midrand area will soon have their streets illuminated. City Power, the City of Johannesburg’s power supply and maintenance entity, ...Read more
City gives the poor a festive season cheer
20-11-2014
In a move aimed at helping to create a cheerful and joyful atmosphere for everyone this festive season, the City of Johannesburg will from December 1 distribute an extra 4 000 free food and vegetable hampers to its most vulnerable residents. Read more
City declares war on criminals
17-11-2014
The only way residents can win the war against crime is by repairing and strengthening their relationship with the police, Johannesburg Member of the Mayoral Committee for Public Safety Councillor Sello Lemao told a public meeting at the East Bank Community Hall in Alexandra on Sunday 16 November. Read more
Jozi@Work inspires the youth to get down to business
18-11-2014
With the registration process for Jozi@Work programme beginning to draw to a close, Johannesburg residents are flocking to its briefing and registration venues in bigger numbers to learn how they could improve the quality of their lives. Read more
City to mark World Diabetes Day
19-11-2014
The City of Johannesburg has over the past few days been conducting health education on diabetes in all its seven regions as part of its build-up to World Diabetes Day on Thursday November 20. Read more
Myth debunked: Jozi is not the world’s most-violent city
19-11-2014
The Mexico’s Citizens’ Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice has released a list of 50 of the most-violent cities in the world and, guess what, Johannesburg is not among them. Read more
City celebrates GIS Day
20-11-2014
The power of the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to transform lives and the way the City of Johannesburg uses the technology to improve its services came under sharp focus on GIS Open Day earlier this week. Read more
City gives the poor a festive season cheer
21-11-2014
In a move aimed at helping to create a cheerful and joyful atmosphere for everyone this festive season, the City of Johannesburg will from December 1 distribute an extra 4 000 free food and vegetable hampers to its most vulnerable residents identified. Read more
City Parks to spend R16 million on Jozi@Work projects
25-11-2014
Johannesburg City Parks & Zoo – the City of Johannesburg’s entity charged with the management of parks, cemeteries and the Johannesburg Zoo – has set aside more than R16 million for the implementation of several infrastructure and services projects under the Jozi@Work programme next year. Read more
Jabulani: Soweto’s CBD is flourishing
26-11-2014
Soweto’s Jabulani Node, one of the Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) projects the City of Johannesburg is undertaking, is fast emerging as the hub of business and upmarket accommodation. Read more
Why the world raves about Jozi
27-11-2014
Johannesburg’s stature on the global stage is on the ascendancy – and it is not difficult to figure out why.
The city has over the past few weeks been showered with accolades from many quarters around the world. It has also been featured in several highly acclaimed international publications, enhancing its profile as a leading urban centre on the African continent and international platforms. Read more
The day they cleaned up Roodepoort’s conservation area
27-11-2014
Under an overcast Johannesburg sky, an army of more than 150 City of Johannesburg workers and Region C officials descended on the Kloofendal Conservation Area in Ward 85 in Roodepoort, on the West Rand. Read more
Jozi@Work: the promise of a better tomorrow
28-11-2014
With his youngest son in tow, 63-year-old Joseph Kgomongwe carefully parked his 1977 Volvo De Lux in the parking lot and, with a set of documents clutched under his arm, briskly made his way into the packed hall of the Meadowlands Welfare Centre in Soweto to register his family’s business, Phirima Pavings, for the Jozi@Work Programme. Read more
Fun galore at the Joburg Theatre
01-12-2014
If you want a bit of fun and a chuckle this festive season, then the Johannesburg Theatre is the place for you.
Tomorrow – Tuesday December 2 – Loyiso Gola, one of South Africa’s leading stand-up comedians and host of the popular Late Night News (LNN) comedy show on eNCA, will be back at The Mandela for a live stand-up show. Read more