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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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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...

O​ctober 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...

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