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City Power has a multi-award-winning champion in its midst. Soweto-born Beatrice Monyake (41) went against all odds to become the pool champion after winning the 2022 World Blackball Champion in...
All roads lead to the Joburg Market on Thursday, 27 October 2022. The market will stage an Emerging Farmers’ workshop on the day to encourage more players in the multi-billion...
The sidewalks of the main road that passes by the Public Safety Headquarters in Martindale were packed with pupils from Newclare and Dowling primary schools recently when the JMPD marked...
Environmental Health Services, Social Development, Joburg Market and Heart and Stroke Foundation gathered at Fred & Marties Soup Kitchen in Claremont, Region B, for the World Food Day Event on...
A large number of customers from Region A and the surrounding areas visited the regional Customer Service Centre at 300, 15th Road Randjespark, Midrand, to get answers to their lingering...
After a 24-month hiatus, the popular Soweto Marathon is returning with a bang and is now the biggest South African one-day race this year. The “People’s Race” is one of...
Compassion will remain inherent even in retirement for Integrated Service Delivery Deputy Director in CRUM Region C Phindile Lakaje, who is hanging up her public servant hat officially at the...
Several libraries in the city are embracing digital transformation, and Randburg Library is an excellent example. The library, which is in Region B on the corners of Bram Fischer Drive...
October has been designated as Mental Health Awareness Month to not only educate the public about the scourge but to also reduce the stigma and prejudice associated with it. To...
The Member of the Mayoral Committee for Human Settlements in the City of Johannesburg, Cllr Anthea Leitch, accompanied by the Executive Mayor of Johannesburg, Cllr Sello Dada Morero, were in...
South Africa’s Thriston Lawrence has confirmed he will defend his Joburg Open title as this international Sunshine Tour and DP World Tour co-sanctioned tournament moves to its new home at...
A Johannesburg-based choir group recently won big on an international stage. In early October, the Quava Vocal Group arrived full of zeal in Europe to compete in the inaugural 2022...
The City of Johannesburg Library Services’ poster on an innovative reading development programme, Mobireadathon, will be displayed at the Taiwan Reading Festival in December 2022. It follows a public request...
The Gauteng Junior NBA Basketball Tournament, held this weekend at the Klipspruit Sports Complex in Soweto, was marked by happiness, fun, fashion, and fitness. Bontle Mokwatle, a rising local basketball...
Four female volleyball clubs came together under the theme of breast cancer to participate in the volleyball games at Danie van Zyl Recreation Centre this weekend. Players were from Kad...
The City of Johannesburg’s Sport and Recreation in Region A showed the community this past Saturday that small steps and adding few changes in your daily routine may help you...
Libraries in Region B hosted a successful Mobireadathon on Friday, 14 October 2022, at Randburg Library. Grade 8 pupils from De La Salle High School, Oceans Private School, Greenside High...
There’s a joke doing the rounds on social media that you can’t be looking for love in Jozi as it’s a strictly business-only city. But there’s more to this concrete...
Born and bred in Johannesburg, Zunaid Khan cannot contain his excitement to finally work for a municipality he grew up in. It gives him an opportunity to be a part...
In a ramped-up bylaw enforcement operation this week, officers from the law enforcement departments of the City’s Region F targeted illegal street traders, illegal tuck shops, problematic properties, illegal buildings,...
Few people can lay claim to being a published author, but a group of senior citizens in Johannesburg are proud to be among those few after becoming published authors of...
On your marks, get set, and go! In less than four days, on Sunday, 6 November, thousands of athletes will gear up and wait eagerly at the starting point to...
Tucked in the middle of the Soweto suburb of Rockville, just 200 meters from Regina Mundi – South Africa’s largest Roman Catholic Church – the newly established Inspirational Museum invites...
Kickboxers affiliated with the South African Amateur Kickboxing Association (SAAKA) attacked the Danie Van Zyl Recreation Centre in Region B during the Great North Kickboxing Tournament, which promoted the sport...
Johannesburg, Tshwane, Sedibeng Ekurhuleni, and the West Rand municipalities shared the spoils of the Gauteng OR Tambo Soncini social cohesion games held at Germiston stadium over the weekend. The event...
South African Breweries has joined forces with the Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD) to reduce drunk driving incidents on the City’s roads. Officials from the SAB and the JMPD officially...
Region F Health was recently out in full force in an effort to empower and raise awareness about healthy living and chronic diseases that contribute to a high morbidity and...
Residents of Region F in wards 54, 56, 57 and124 gathered at the Reuven Retirement Village Hall in West Turffontein for the regions’ third Community-Based Planning (CBP) workshop on Saturday,...
The City of Johannesburg’s Food Resilience Unit hosted a farmers market at Diepkloof Comprehensive Welfare Centre on Friday, 28 October 2022. The farmers market forms part of the City’s broader...
Ghouls, ghosts and goblins were among the must-see at the Johannesburg Zoo’s Owl’oween celebration. Back for the first time in two years, the two-day fright fest took place on 28...
While millions of South Africans were gripped by the Soweto derby spectacle at FNB Stadium on Saturday, 29 October 2022, a total of 400 elderly and needy families benefitted from...
World Cities Day initiative brought Urban October to an end on 31 October and was first celebrated in 2014. This year, the global observance is planned under the theme –...
The City of Johannesburg’s Health Department, the Gauteng Department of Health and the South Africa United Against Cancer (SAUAC) staged a cancer awareness walk on the 29 October 2022 at...
Ntombi Buthelezi (27) has always had a childhood dream of starting a book club. In January 2020, it became a reality with the help of co-founder Mpho Nkole, who shares...
October is Transport Month. Transport shapes the way residents live and ensures the functioning of the City of Johannesburg – taking residents from their homes to work, schools, hospitals, stadiums,...
Excitement is building all over the country on who the real kings of the Soweto Derby are. Fans from Azaadville, Bloemfontein, Ceres to Zandspruit will all congregate on FNB Stadium...