Media Releases 2015
Infrastructure top of municipal agenda
Municipalities are exploring new and innovative ways of recapitalising their ageing infrastructure, Johannesburg Executive Mayor Councillor Parks Tau told the inaugural Gauteng Infrastructure Investment Conference at Gallagher Estate in Midrand on 16 July. Gauteng Premier [...]
JDA staffers roll up their sleeves for Mandela Day
Johannesburg Development Agency (JDA) staff members rolled up their sleeves to paint classrooms at Realogile Secondary School in Alexandra on Friday, 17 July as part of the agency's contribution to Nelson Mandela Day 2015. JDA [...]
Revitalised inner city draws lively new resident
Gilda Swanepoel, co-owner of Monchhichi café and live entertainment bar, is one of a new wave of entrepreneurs that are moving back into downtown Joburg as the City steps up its inner city regeneration drive. [...]
Trees breathe new life into Rea Vaya’s Parktown route
Four years after the planting of 196 new trees along Empire Road, seasonal growth is bringing the greenery back to Rea Vaya's Parktown route. Rea Vaya's Parktown Station on Empire RoadRea Vaya's Parktown Station on [...]
Student accommodation with a difference in Brixton
Johannesburg students are queueing up to take occupancy of student apartments with a difference - eco-friendly structures made entirely of shipping containers - in the suburb of Brixton on the western edge of the inner [...]