Media Releases 2014

Celebrating 60 years of the Women’s Charter

August 13th, 2014|

Sixty years ago 164 women of all races, representing 230 000 women from a range of struggle organisations and trade unions, gathered in Johannesburg to draw up the Women's Charter, one of the first documents [...]

Metro Park to open to Joburg residents

August 13th, 2014|

Metro Park, just south of the Mandela Bridge, is a welcome green space in the inner city, and will give residents in the concrete jungle space to breathe, play, relax, and gather. The much-anticipated opening [...]

Two bulls in the kraal on Vilakazi Street

August 11th, 2014|

Soweto's rich history is captured in the area's many evocative artworks; the two bulls on Vilakazi Street represent Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu respectively, standing testimony that despite the South African saying, two [...]

Jozi@Work empowers small businesses

August 6th, 2014|

Aiming to improve service delivery, the City of Johannesburg's jozi@Work programme will contract around 1750 small businesses to provide services as diverse as waste sorting and infrastructure maintenance. The programme is expected to create 40 [...]

Mandela Gandhi Exhibition at Constitution Hill

August 1st, 2014|

Moving beyond its past as a prison, Constitution Hill now stands testimony to South Africa's peaceful transition to democracy. The current Mandela Gandhi Exhibition acknowledges this transition and tells the story of two towering figures [...]