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Hostel residents urged to make complexes liveable

01 October 2015

 

While moves are under way to convert single-sex hostels in Johannesburg into family housing units, their occupants have been urged to take responsibility for their current neighbourhoods in line with applicable rules and regulations...Read more

 

Why Joburg is global celebrities’ playground

02 October 2015

 

One would be excused for thinking that the theme for this year’s National Tourism Month was coined with Johannesburg – and Johannesburg only – in mind...Read more

 

It’s all systems go for the EcoMobility World Festival

02 October 2015

 

The moment that has in recent weeks sparked all manner of debate has finally arrived...Read more

 

Healthy kota contest reaches critical stage

05 October 2015

 

The search for Johannesburg’s healthiest kota (bunny chow) is almost over...Read more

 

Walking to a healthy lifestyle

05 October 2015

 

Hundreds of young and old Johannesburg residents stepped up to a healthy lifestyle when they took part in a fun walk organised by the City in Kibler Park in Region F on Saturday October 3...Read more

 

Carnival atmosphere as ecomobility gets moving

05 October 2015

 

When people complain that they are stuck in traffic, we tell them that they are, in fact, the traffic,” Johannesburg Executive Mayor Councillor Parks Tau said in Sandton on Sunday 4 October...Read more

 

AMEU moves to fast-track women empowerment

06 October 2015

 

The Association of Municipal Electricity Utilities of Southern Africa (AMEU) has launched a new programme to accelerate women empowerment in the sector...Read more

 

City libraries school holiday fun and games

06 October 2015

 

The City of Johannesburg’s Library and Information Services – which falls under the Department

of Community Development has put together an exciting and stimulating programme to keep

children constructively engaged during the current school holidays...Read more

 

Joburg residents cautiously welcome EcoMobility

07 October 2015

 

Johannesburg residents – including commuters, motorists, cyclists and businesspeople – are warming up to the EcoMobility World Festival currently under way in Sandton...Read more

 

EcoMobility is a moral issue

07 October 2015

 

African cities had no choice but to change the way they moved people while saving the environment and protecting people’s health by reducing carbon emissions, the City of Johannesburg’s Member of the Mayoral Committee for Transport, Cllr Christine Walters, said on Tuesday October 6 – the second day of the 2015 EcoMobility World Festival...Read more

 

Freedom Ride to turn Jozi into cyclists haven

08 October 2015

 

Johannesburg Executive Mayor Councillor Parks Tau is expected to lead from the front on Sunday October 11 when the City stages the fourth edition of the 27km Freedom Ride in Sandton and surrounding areas in partnership with leading insurance group Hollard...Read more

 

Review traditional electricity utility model, AMEU told

08 October 2015

 

Delegates at the 25th convention of the Association of Municipal Electricity Utilities of Southern Africa (AMEU) on Wednesday October 7 – the third and final day of the summit – agreed that the traditional electricity utility model currently in use should be reviewed...Read more

 

City of Joburg Mayoress scoops coveted award

08 October 2015

 

The Mayoress of the City of Johannesburg Ms Pilisiwe Twala-Tau has been awarded the WAF-Think Gender Award at the Women Advancement Forum (WAF) conference taking place in Dubai, UAE from 4 to 8 October...Read more

 

Ntirhisano gives Pimville residents a say

09 October 2015

 

For years we’ve been promised an old-age home and our children are not getting RDP houses but outsiders are, and with ease,” Doris Mdlalose told Johannesburg Executive Mayor Councillor Parks Tau in Pimville, Soweto, on Thursday October 8...Read more

 

10 ways to beat the heat

09 October 2015

 

Joburg is experiencing one of its hottest summers in recent memory with temperatures regularly touching the 35 degree Celsius mark...Read more

 

Vehicles of the future at EcoMobility Exhibition

12 October 2015

 

You probably have not seen or heard of a K-Tank, Raptor or T-Riciclo.

If you have, good for you because it means you are already one step into Johannesburg’s mobility of the future...Read more

 

Jozi on filmmaking map again thanks to Ayanda

12 October 2015

 

Johannesburg’s unique urban character is once again being showcased on the silver screen in the city’s latest film, Ayanda.

Shot on location in Yeoville, a fast-paced and bubbling cultural melting pot on the eastern side of the Johannesburg inner city, Ayanda is the latest film by award-winning film director Sara Blecher...Read more

 

Jozi’s Region G launches its own farmers’ forum

12 October 2015

 

The City of Johannesburg’s Region G, which has no major economic base but boasts vast tracts of undeveloped and vacant land, has established a farmers’ forum to harness the area’s agricultural potential and help transform it into a viable and sustainable economic hub...Read more

 

City in new move to improve billing accuracy

12 October 2015

 

In a new development aimed at improving billing accuracy and increasing operational efficiency, the City of Johannesburg is to introduce a regionalised billing system on 1 December 2015...Read more

 

Roodepoort suburbs given a massive spruce-up

14 October 2015

 

Several Roodepoort suburbs in the City of Johannesburg’s Region C were given a new lease of life on Monday October 12 when members of an integrated team of municipal-owned entities swept into town and removed anything unsightly lying in their wake...Read more

 

Ntirhisano gets Davidsonville residents talking

15 October 2015

 

Last night (Wednesday October 14), residents of Davidsonville, Roodepoort, in the City of Johannesburg’s Region C got a chance to hold local and provincial leaders to account as part of the Ntirhisano service-delivery imbizo...Read more

 

Pikitup's food for waste programme to break cycle of poverty

15 October 2015

 

As the World prepares to celebrate World Food Day on Friday October 16, Pikitup is also making a contribution to food security through its Food for Waste Programme to ensure that more vulnerable people benefit. Food insecurity is a major concern in many parts of the developing world, and Johannesburg is not immune to it...Read more

 

Ntirhisano promises Doornkop satellite police station

16 October 2015

 

Hundreds of Doornkop, Soweto, residents yesterday (Thursday October 15) ululated, clapped and whistled when leaders of the City of Johannesburg and the Gauteng Provincial Government announced that a satellite police station would be established in the area within the next few weeks...Read more

 

The hosting of Enactus in Jozi has raised the bar

19 October 2015

 

After three days of intense competition, cooperation and exchange of innovative and out-of-the-box entrepreneurial ideas, a team of students from the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom was crowned the 2015 Enactus World Cup Champions at the Sandton Convention Centre on Friday night (October 16)...Read more

 

Mayoress joins thought leaders at Leadership Exchange

19 October 2015

 

Pilisiwe Twala-Tau, CEO of Toti Capital and wife of Johannesburg Executive Mayor Councillor Parks Tau, was on Saturday October 17 one of the major speakers at a symposium organised by Leadership Exchange, a non-profit organisation that facilitates conversations and promotes thought leadership among entrepreneurs, professionals, academics, students and opinion makers...Read more

 

City in major drive to halt carnage on the roads

19 October 2015

 

As part of Transport Month, the City of Johannesburg’s Public Safety Department is visiting a number of communities throughout the municipality’s seven regions to heighten awareness of the significance of road safety and the importance of adhering to municipal bylaws...Read more

 

City in plan to root out park criminals

20 October 2015

 

Apartnership is to be immediately initiated among safety and security stakeholders to root out criminal elements at all the City of Johannesburg's recreational facilities, Johannesburg Executive Mayor Councillor Parks Tau said in a statement on Monday October 19...Read more

 

Jozi Mayor meets Mos Def

22 October 2015

 

Johannesburg Executive Mayor Councillor Mpho Parks Tau met international hip hop star, actor, comedian and activist Yisiin Bey, popularly known as Mos Def, in Sandton last night (Wednesday October 21) to discuss ways in which youth upliftment and empowerment programmes in Johannesburg could be maximised...Read more

 

Party time as Kofifi turns 60

22 October 2015

 

The true spirit of Sophiatown lives on and on Saturday October 24 Kofifi, as the suburb is affectionately known, will celebrate its 60th anniversary the only way it knows how – through song and dance...Read more

 

Thousands pray against police killings

23 October 2015

 

More than 5 000 people converged into the Standard Bank Arena in Ellis Park on Thursday October 22 for a mass prayer service in honour of the 60 police officers who were killed in line of duty nationwide this year alone.

Of these, 33 were killed in Johannesburg...Read more

 

60th anniversary of Sophiatown forced removals marked

26 October 2015

 

Hundreds of Johannesburg residents turned up at the Trevor Huddleston Memorial Centre in Sophiatown to march to the nearby Extreme Park on Saturday October 24 to mark the 60th anniversary of the 1955 forced removals...Read more

 

Help us to help you, City’s hostel residents urged

26 October 2015

 

While single-sex hostels in Johannesburg are in the process of being phased out to make way for modern family accommodation, tenants have been urged to take responsibility for their current residences...Read more

 

Region A opens up opportunities for SMMEs

27 October 2015

 

The Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs) workshops held recently in the City of Johannesburg’s Region A will help to expand its supplier database and contribute to economic development in previously disadvantaged communities, according to Regional Director Abigail Ndlovu...Read more

 

Mother of all parties to wrap up EcoMobility Fest

28 October 2015

 

The month-long EcoMobility World Festival, which has introduced Johannesburg citizens to the mobility of the future, will be played out with a top-drawer and star-studded music concert in West Street, Sandton, on Saturday October 31...Read more

 

New City move to tackle service delivery challenges

28 October 2015

 

Mlamleli Belot, Director of the City of Johannesburg’s Region C, has been charged with the task of coordinating an integrated and multidisciplinary plan aimed at adequately responding to service delivery challenges identified during three visits to informal settlements in the region by Members of the Mayoral Committee (MMCs) on Monday October 26...Read more

 

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Service delivery on track despite challenges

01 October 2015

 

The City of Johannesburg's Section 79 Committee is continuing to play a key role in holding the executive arm of the council accountable and in ensuring quality service delivery, according to the Speaker of Council, Councillor Constance Bapela...Read more

 

Give Jozi’s new broadband entity a name and win

01 October 2015

 

The City of Johannesburg has established a new municipal entity (ME) for its broadband network and is calling on all residents to come up with a creative name for it...Read more

 

DJ Black Coffee wows Joburg fans

02 October 2015

 

For hundreds of people in Johannesburg, the weekend started early as they danced into the night at the launch of award-winning DJ Black Coffee’s latest CD on Thursday October 1...Read more

 

Enjoy sightseeing during the ecomobility festival

02 October 2015

 

City Sightseeing Joburg’s hop-on hop-off bus tours will be facilitating a special Sandton Eco Mobility World Festival route on weekends during the month of October 2015, while Segway tours will be offering a novel way to see the many sights of Sandton...Read more

 

Co-ops undergo health and safety training

05 October 2015

 

Representatives of hundreds of small township businesses and co-operatives on Saturday October 3 attended a health and safety programme organised by the Johannesburg Housing Company (JOSHCO) to help them easily handle potential hazards and ensure compliance with relevant health and safety regulations in their business environments...Read more

 

Izinyokas’ days numbered

06 October 2015

 

Cable thieves, be afraid; be very afraid!

This is the strong warning that emerged from the first day of the 25th annual convention of the Association of Municipal Electricity Utilities of Southern Africa (AMEU) at the Sandton Convention Centre on Monday October 5...Read more

 

EcoMobility World Festival gets off to a great start

06 October 2015

 

Sandton, Africa’s richest square mile, had a different feel on Monday morning – the first day of the 2015 EcoMobility World Festival...Read more

 

Load-shedding sparks search for alternative energy sources

06 October 2015

 

With load-shedding unlikely to go away anytime soon, renewable energy is increasingly being seen as a viable and reliable option for desperate power consumers in South Africa...Read more

 

Cars getting out of fashion, EcoMobility imbizo told

07 October 2015

 

The City of London freed itself from a giant gridlock by taking cars off the road and introducing an efficient, regular and reliable bus service backed by real-time information to keep commuters posted on destinations, departures and arrivals...Read more

 

High-tech innovation helps JRA to work smarter

07 October 2015

 

The Johannesburg Roads Agency (JRA) is now able to respond quicker and more effectively to issues relating to infrastructure following the introduction of a Smart City innovation...Read more

 

Tracing transport in Joburg through the times

08 October 2015

 

The horse-drawn carriage has given way for spanking new dual-fuel Metrobuses and the clanging bells of the bright red electric trams were replaced by the more muted sounds of the Rea Vaya fleet… but Johannesburg remains a city on the move...Read more

 

Diepkloof park renamed Vuyani Mabaxa

08 October 2015

 

The Diepkloof Extreme Park has been renamed in honour of slain community and political activist Vuyani Mabaxa...Read more

 

Cycling - not only for the rich and famous

09 October 2015

 

Bhoni4Kasi SA, a not-for-profit organisation that seeks to promote the culture of cycling, has developed several strategies to make cycling attractive to Johannesburg residents...Read more

 

The Crook’s Eye comes to Joburg Theatre

09 October 2015

 

South Africans of all shapes and sizes have been affected by crime in one way or another, at some stage or another. If you have not been directly affected by it, chances are you know someone who has...Read more

 

Soweto entrepreneur wins Healthy Kota Challenge

12 October 2015

 

Soweto entrepreneur Thato Molotsane makes the tastiest, most nutritious and healthiest kota (bunny chow) in town...Read more

 

World mayors sign Joburg ecomobility declaration on climate change

12 October 2015

 

The mayors of several world cities represented at the ongoing 2015 EcoMobility World Festival in Sandton on Friday 9 October formally and officially declared their commitment to sustainable development and low carbon emissions as their contribution to the battle against climate change...Read more

 

Meet the volunteers of EcoMobility World Festival

12 October 2015

 

They are among the most visible features of the EcoMobility World Festival under way in Sandton. Everywhere one turns, one is likely to bump into them...Read more

 

Jozi’s gogos teach Limpopo’s Vakhegula lesson

12 October 2015

 

Granny Freda Dlamini, Jozi Gogos Football Club’s prolific and lethal goal poacher, scored a hat-trick to help her team sink Limpopo’s world-famous Vakhegula Vakhegula in a thrill-a-minute inaugural Go Jozi Grannies Soccer Challenge at the South End Park Sports Centre in Johannesburg on Saturday October 10...Read more

 

Cyclists swarm City streets during Freedom Ride

12 October 2015

 

More than 5 000 cyclists brought Sandton and surrounding suburbs to a standstill on Sunday October 11 when they took part in the Freedom Ride, ending the first week of the month-long EcoMobility World Festival in style...Read more

 

City puts food on the table

14 October 2015

 

The City of Johannesburg will, in partnership with the Stop Hunger Now Southern Africa (SHNSA), celebrate World Food Day on Friday October 16 by launching a nine-month food-parcel distribution programme to feed thousands of vulnerable families in all its regions...Read more

 

Street parties mark halfway spot of EcoMobility Festival journey

15 October 2015

 

As the EcoMobility World Festival trundles towards its third week, the exciting month-long non-motorised transport adventure will take a sporty turn this weekend when Sandton opens up some of its streets for people to play, party and celebrate the success of the past two weeks...Read more

 

City welcomes 4 000 students to Africa's first Enactus World Cup

16 October 2015

 

Loud, proud and colourful!

That was the excitement that reverberated through the Sandton Convention Centre on Wednesday night - the opening day of the 2015 Enactus World Cup...Read more

 

City probes Sandton bridge accident

16 October 2015

 

Johannesburg Executive Mayor Councillor Parks Tau spent most of yesterday (Thursday October 15) visiting people who were injured and paying his condolences to the families of those who died when scaffolding on the Great Walk Bridge on Grayston Drive in Sandton collapsed on Wednesday afternoon...Read more

 

EcoMobility is the way to go

19 October 2015

 

Tatiana Remy, a 16-year-old Grade 10 learner at Redhill High School in Sandton had never used public transport in her entire life...Read more

 

Ecomobility Street Sports Weekend attracts hundreds

19 October 2015

 

Hundreds of people of all ages, shapes and sizes from various parts of the city and beyond converged into Sandton at the weekend to take part in the EcoMobility World Festival’s Street Sports Weekend...Read more

 

Mayor Tau pays tribute to fallen Sisulu hero

20 October 2015

 

Johannesburg Executive Mayor Councillor Parks Tau on Monday October 19 paid tribute to Mlungisi Sisulu, the second-born son of the late struggle stalwarts, Walter and Albertina Sisulu. Johannesburg bestowed the Freedom of the City on Walter Sisulu in 1997...Read more

 

Thousands to pray for an end to police killings

21 October 2015

 

More than 5 000 people are expected to attend a mass prayer meeting to be hosted by the City of Johannesburg at the Standard Bank Arena in Ellis Park, Johannesburg, on Thursday October 22 in honour of 60 police officers killed in line of duty in the country this year alone...Read more

 

Catch ‘King of Graceland’ – at a discounted price

22 October 2015

 

It has been given a six-star rating. City Press has called it a hit and Cape Times has described it as “a treat fit for a king”...Read more

 

Joburg launches the “#IKnowMyJoburg” campaign

22 October 2015

 

 

The City of Johannesburg today (Wednesday 21) launched the “#IKnowMyJoburg” campaign which seeks to engage the residents of the City, especially the youth on what service delivery the City offers the community...Read more

 

Jozi Mayor’s wife lays wreaths at Rhodes Park

23 October 2015

 

Pilisiwe Twala-Tau, wife of Johannesburg Executive Mayor Councillor Parks Tau, yesterday (Thursday October 22) laid wreaths at the spot where two men were brutally murdered at Rhodes Park in Kensington on Saturday October 17...Read more

 

Five win big in Jozi’s Shopping festival

26 October 2015

 

Five shoppers received much more than they bargained for when they shopped until they dropped during the recent Johannesburg Shopping Festival (JSF) – fabulous prizes totalling R1 million...Read more

 

City pumps R90-million into Region C’s roads projects

26 October 2015

 

The implementation of the City of Johannesburg’s multimillion rand Roads Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Programme is in full swing in Region C...Read more

 

Millions up for grabs for innovative ideas in jozi my beginning

27 October 2015

 

The City of Johannesburg is expanding and changing the way it does business...Read more

 

City gives power to residents of informal settlements

28 October 2015

 

The days of living in darkness for residents of two of Johannesburg’s informal settlements are almost over...Read more

 

Team Jozi to regroup after losing top spot in OR Games

28 October 2015

 

The City of Johannesburg’s sporting team failed to successfully defend its bragging rights as the champion of the OR Tambo Inter-Municipality Games in Krugersdorp in Mogale City on the West Rand at the weekend...Read more

 

Dementia sufferers are not witches

28 October 2015

 

The City of Johannesburg is hosting a series of gatherings, throughout its seven Regions, as part of the Dementia Awareness Campaign...Read more

 

How'loween to turn zoo into a frightful wonderland

29 October 2015

 

Johannesburg Zoo’s highly successful How’loween Day returns this weekend with the biggest and most exciting festival of frights ever seen...Read more

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