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Aletta Mzimela, also known as Mam Aletta, leaves behind a legacy of outstanding work and projects in the City as she bows out after 33 years of dedicated service. When...

Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday to the Johannesburg Zoo that has a lot of creatures who look just like you! The Joburg Zoo is turning...

Swedish pro-golfer Linn Grant, who won the Joburg Ladies Open 2022 with five strokes, will miss this year’s showpiece when it tees-off on the fairways of the Modderfontein Golf Club...

The Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department’s Acting Chief of Police, Angie Mokasi, leadership and staff recently celebrated the promotion of five female and eight male officers. The officers were promoted from...

The energy crisis remains one of the biggest challenges in Gauteng and the whole country. As part of the energy crisis solution, the Gauteng Provincial Government plans to work with...

The Speaker of Council in the City of Johannesburg, Cllr Colleen Makhubele, remembered more than 300 men on Saturday, 18 February 2023, who drowned in icy sea over 100 years...

The Speaker of Council, Cllr Colleen Makhubele, congratulated 19 City of Johannesburg Councillors who successfully completed their Local Government Leadership Development Programme (LGLDP). “This is the time in our history...

Khwezi Gule’s face lights up when he talks about his vision for the Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG), for which he is chief curator since November 2017. Gule was born in...

As South Africans rushed to the shops to stock up of chocolates and red roses this week, Edith Khuzwayo, a librarian at Malvern Library, visited Little Lambs Learning Centre on...

If you are a lover of history, then you don’t want to miss an award-winning exhibition at the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre. The exhibition showcases photographs captured by perpetrators,...

​The City’s Emergency Management Services (EMS) has wrapped six Metrobuses with vinyl branding to heighten awareness about domestic fire prevention and safety....

The Johannesburg Roads Agency (JRA) has completed the investigation stage of the Wemmer Pan Road. However, the agency warns motorists to continue being cautious and use alternative routes until construction...

​Velly Matsebatlela’s life work is about honouring one of the late Nelson Mandela’s adages: “Never stop doing little things for those less privileged than you are. Those little things occupy...

“It is remarkable to see the two cities working to building operation centers, this a good experience of cooperation between Rio and Johannesburg. We hope to share our knowledge on...

The Joburg Ladies Open 2023 is fast approaching, and the City is putting the finishing touches on its preparations to host a world-class event. In less than three weeks, the...

Soweto Theatre is excited to announce that The Red Theatre will be renamed Gibson Kente Theatre....
​​​The refurbished 18-hole Soweto Country Club in the heart of Pimville has walked away with a Sports Tourism recognition at the 2023 Soweto Tourism Awards....
Pregnancy is a beautiful and exciting time for expectant mothers and their families....
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Despite it being winter, there is nothing cold about Thokoza Park in Rockville, Soweto, the home of Nelson Mandela’s “Champion Tree.” The park is festooned with deciduous trees, green turf...

​​The Soweto Theatre marked Nelson Mandela International Day by hosting a daylong symposium for aspiring arts and culture practitioners to share information on how to access funding. Although it was...

​The MMC for Public Safety, Cllr David Tembe, alongside acting Chief of Police, Thulani Khanyile, spent Nelson Mandela International Day refurbishing Gogo Elizabeth Nkosi’s old house, sprucing up the property...

The Executive Mayor of the City of Johannesburg, Councillor Mpho Phalatse, and members of her executive team including Speaker of Council, Cllr Vasco da Gama, local councillors and city employees...

The Johannesburg City Parks and Zoo (JCPZ) celebrated Mandela Day, with a wreath laying ceremony and other fun-filled activities at Thokoza Park, Soweto, on Friday, 15 July 2022. JCPZ honoured...

​The Department of Community Development in the City of Joburg appointed Johannesburg Development Agency (JDA) to build a R43 million swimming pool in Ivory Park. The Ivory Park Swimming Pool...

The tall, lush trees on Main Road drift about sideways from being blown by gusts of wintry winds, creating an even chilly morning adjacent to GOG Gardens, a multi-purpose entertainment,...

Unlike the rest of us reeling from fuel price increases, Charles Moloto lets his feet do the talking by jogging to-and-fro work daily. Moloto, 47, is a Pest Controller at...

The holidays are a special time for learners to spend time with their friends and family and try all sorts of new things. One such new activity was an enjoyable...

​The Executive Mayor of the City of Johannesburg, Cllr Mpho Phalatse, and the Member of the Mayoral Committee for Transport, Cllr Funzi Ngobeni, launched Metrobus’ newly refurbished buses at Metrobus...

​​​The Speaker of Council in the City of Johannesburg, Cllr Vasco da Gama, met various departments and officials at the Soweto Hotel in the Walter Sisulu Square of Dedication in...

Sometimes heroes don’t wear capes. They just donate much-needed blood regularly. Forty-five-year-old Elton May, a Senior Assistant Librarian at Joburg City Library, is one of hordes of City employees who...

Golf has always been seen as an affluent sport but the Standard Bank Women’s Pro-Am programme is taking it right down to grassroots. This year, Standard Bank’s installment of the...

​​​​​​The office of the Member of the Mayoral Committee for Community Development, Johannesburg City Parks, and Zoo (JCPZ) and the Johannesburg Muslim Cemetery Association had a meeting recently to welcome...

​​​If you missed out on the recent public art bus tour that celebrates the legacy of Drew Lindsay, worry not. The City of Johannesburg has got you covered. “The City...

John Kani's “Kunene and the King" pokes fun at the varied polarised perceptions of two elderly men from different occupations while exploring contemporary socio-political commentary through method acting.​...

​In a City where most young people are unemployed and some short-term contracts are ending, the skills development and workplace preparedness training hosted by the Department of Public Safety was...

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