Ward councillor hopes to bring change with Re-imagine Randburg initiative
Businesses in Randburg are being encouraged to clean and preserve their surroundings by the recently created Re-imagine Randburg initiative, a community-driven project to counteract deterioration.
Ward 102 councillor Lucinda Harman has launched the Re-imagine Randburg campaign, aimed at restoring the slowly deteriorating Randburg area.
Harman recently met with local business owners, community organisations, and ratepayers’ associations at the Mercure Hotel to explain more about the aims of the initiative and their involvement.
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The initiative asks that businesses start cleaning the area and infrastructure in front of their outlets, with the hopes that it will inspire their neighbours to do the same, so the cleaning up of Randburg will spread.
Randburg has become a place of degradation, with potholes, sinkholes, traffic, streetlights that do not work, open excavations, as well as crumbling infrastructure. Harman’s community-driven initiative encourages businesses in Randburg to clean and maintain their surroundings.
At the launch, the ward councillor stressed that the state of Randburg has worsened, and businesses are leaving. She also shared some of the wins that she has accomplished in her ward as part of the revamp, to inspire the attendees and get them behind the initiative.
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The initiative launch was supported by the police, local community policing forums, and security companies. She urged them all to support the initiative and to take action in their areas. “I am prepared to do whatever it takes, go the extra mile, for this project. Let’s all start this movement in the right direction and start to get things done. This is all about responsibility and standing up as citizens, and being proud of Randburg again.”
She added that it was important to come together and say enough is enough. To do something positive to make things happen and start bringing change.
Among the several role players in the meeting were Springs businessman Tony da Cruz and Former JSE president Roy Anderson, who asked businesses to pledge to the Re-imagine Randburg initiative to maintaining pavements on a continuous basis.
Harman explained that she feels humbled, and that it had been two months of working and planning for the project. “It was amazing to see a lot of people who are hungry and need hope. I believe we can do it if we all start to work together as residents, businesses, and residents’ associations. We cannot all pack up and leave Randburg. Let’s just adopt the pavement and island, do something and start becoming active citizens.”
She added that another reason for the initiative was to bring hope to residents of Randburg, and ward 102, and for that to spread on to other wards. The work has already begun, with different businesses repairing issues in their surroundings, and resident’s associations involved in different cleans ups.
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