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Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development Mmamoloko Kubayi. (@mmkubayi/X)

Mmamoloko Kubayi dismisses ANC suggestion that she run for Johannesburg mayor

Sources close to Kubayi said the approach was not genuine but ‘malicious’ and meant to disrupt her

The elections announced for 4 November will have a consequential impact on our body politic as municipal polls often project how national elections will turn out.
(Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Remember, Remember the 4th of November

As unpredictable as elections may be, the best outcome for voters in the 4 November local government elections would be an electoral system which incentivises and rewards…

Recovery story: Remington House was hijacked in 2012 and became overcrowded, unsafe and cut off from
basic services. Political will, financial backing and execution helped turn it around. Photo: Supplied

A nugget of hope in the inner city

Remington House, a once-notorious hijacked building in Johannesburg, has been transformed into fully let student housing, illustrating what is possible when intervention is…

The Blue, Green and No Drop certification programmes are the department’s regulatory mechanisms to improve municipal drinking water quality, wastewater management, water conservation and demand management.

SA’s water crisis deepens: Nearly half of wastewater systems critical

The latest Green, Blue and No Drop reports show widespread deterioration of water and sanitation infrastructure. Nearly half of wastewater systems are critical, drinking water…

‘Not us’: Sasol in Secunda. The company says all its emissions monitoring shows levels well within the limits authorised in its atmospheric emissions licences. Photo: Supplied

Residents mull source of pong

People have been reporting strong sulphur odours causing headaches and eye irritation. The city is monitoring air quality while authorities investigate potential Highveld emissions

Outgoing federal council chair Helen Zille. Photo:(@Our_DA/X)

Zille pledges 200 000 new jobs in Johannesburg

Joburg mayoral candidate Helen Zille said the DA-run Cape Town gained 69 000 jobs in the past three months while Johannesburg shed 49 000 jobs

A building in Johannesburg collapsed on Monday leaving six people dead

Joburg to blacklist developers after deadly Ormonde building collapse

A preventable oversight failure led to nine deaths in Ormonde in the south of Johannesburg, the city said as it announced the crackdown on unlawful developments

ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba. (File photo)

Former mayor Mashaba throws his hat into Joburg’s mayoral race

ActionSA leader joins the likes of DA’s Helen Zille to claim city’s top post

African Reclaimers Organisation members stand in front of the trucks they use to collect waste from communities and industrial sites.

Reclaimers bemoan loss of livelihoods

About 140 waste pickers, who had spent years recovering recyclables from a landfill site, say they were given just a day’s notice that it would close

Some Randburg suburbs have gone more than two weeks without refuse collection. (X  Yamkeleka Manjeya
@manjeya_wendy)

Refuse collection uneven in Randburg as Pikitup and workers trade blame

Some Randburg suburbs have gone more than two weeks without refuse collection as Pikitup and striking casual workers trade blame over service disruptions at the Randburg depot

The City of Johannesburg is set to appoint ANC regional chair and member of the mayoral committee (MMC) for finance Loyiso Masuku as deputy mayor at Thursday’s council sitting. (X)

Joburg council set to appoint Loyiso Masuku as deputy mayor if Morero survives motion of no confidence

The annual remuneration for a full-time councillor serving as executive deputy mayor is estimated at R1 280 117

Equipped: A woman looks around in the Michaelis Art Library within the Johannesburg City
Library on 9 August 2025. Photo: OUR CITY NEWS/James Oatway

How funding apartheid fails young library users

Lack of funds prevent provinces from carrying out their mandate to manage public library services

Toxic smoke: The illegal dumping site from Cedar Creek forces residents to breathe an acrid haze from nightly burning. Photo: Supplied

‘We can’t breathe’: Joburg communities choke as illegal dumping sparks toxic air crisis

Every night, the skyline turns grey as illegal waste fires sweep through mountains of discarded household waste, building debris, electronic, medical waste and toxic materials

HANDS-ON: Johanneburg Mayor Dada Morero has been spearheading countless cleaning-up operations
around the City lately. Photo: Supplied

You don’t need a summit to clean a city; you need consistency

The people of Johannesburg have cried many tears over the past decade and become accustomed to temporary service delivery ‘solutions’

Smart cities: This is a render from the Zendai Modderfontein project that was cancelled.

South Africa’s obsession with ‘Cities’

South Africa doesn’t need another “mega city” with big promises and no foundations. It needs cities that work – developments rooted in demand, affordability and local partnerships

The Madlanga commission heard further testimony of police corruption on Monday from an anonymous police investigator who alleged that senior Gauteng officials were linked to drug cartels and criminal syndicates implicated in contract killings.
 Photo: Paul Botes

Political killings task team had achieved its purpose, says Sibiya

The deputy national commissioner defended the disbandment of the team, saying its budget should support broader crime-fighting efforts

Citizens of Johnnesburg are paying for the city’s misuse of public money. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy/M&G

Financial mismanagement continues in the City of Johannesburg

The council has racked up billions in irregular and unauthorised expenditure, impacting services and ratepayers

Suspended Patriotic Alliance deputy president Kenny Kunene. (X)

Decision for PA’s Kunene to be Joburg mayoral candidate taken before his suspension – party sources

Patriotic Alliance sources say that despite investigations into the deputy president’s links to murder suspect Katiso Molefe, they have confidence in him

Shake up: EFF has threatened that it will withdraw its support for the ANC in the City of Johannesburg if its demands are not met.

EFF demands Joburg transport post as condition for continued support of ANC

The move is a strategy ahead of next year’s local government elections, as the party believes that fixing roads, traffic lights and public transport networks will prove its…

The PA is demanding that its newly appointed councillor, Liam Jacobs, take over the position of transport MMC in Johannesburg.(@LiamJacobsZA/X)

EXCLUSIVE: We’ll pull out of Joburg coalition if we don’t get transport MMC post, say EFF and PA

The EFF wants Mgcini Tshwaku — while PA want Liam Jacobs — to take over the position left vacant by Kenny Kunene’s resignation