Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has congratulated the City of Johannesburg after the Fitch Ratings agency upgraded its national long-term rating. Fitch also upgraded the national senior unsecured ratings on outstanding bonds and affirmed the city’s...
By Frances Ringwood On 4 December this year, the board and management of the City of Johannesburg’s waste removal services organ, Pikitup, announced an end to the two-week long strike which has seen the City’s streets overflowing with household...
African cities are taking the lead with investment in interventions designed to conserve natural resources and energy for generations to come. This is as many countries around the world look to innovative ways to conserve and efficiently manage...
The City of Johannesburg’s drive to provide residents of informal settlements with decent housing continued on Wednesday 18 November when 30 families took occupancy of their newly built houses at the R10-million Fleurhof Extension 29 housing...
City Power will spend more than R500 million over the next three years on the upgrading of six power substations in Region C to increase their capacity and prevent power outages. The six substations that will be given a new lease of life are in...
Zandspruit, an informal settlement northwest of Johannesburg with an estimated 15 000 shacks, is to be developed into a formal human settlement consisting of more than 7 000 brick-and-mortar housing units. This development was recently approved by...
The long-standing legal dispute between the Alexandra Property Owners and government over the land ownership rights of the old section of the township is over. The draft agreement recorded as a “Declaration of Intent” was unanimously...
The implementation of the City of Johannesburg’s multimillion rand Roads Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Programme is in full swing in Region C. Spearheaded by the Johannesburg Roads Agency (JRA) the programme is part of the City’s drive to...
The Johannesburg Development Agency (JDA) is planning a twenty-two month construction programme to refurbish the Jack Mincer taxi facility to accommodate the large number of taxis that currently rank and hold in the streets within the Park Station...
