Your weekly City of Joburg news roundup
JOBURG – We take a look at news you might have missed from the City of Johannesburg last week.
From new developments on the increased property values to new projects getting the go-ahead, we take a look at what went down within the City of Johannesburg this week.
The City of Johannesburg’s Executive Mayor Herman Mashaba said he has taken steps to ensure property owners who objected to their recent property valuation will get further support from the municipality. These owners would be allowed to continue paying the same rates until the objection is finalised.
“Once the objection process is finalised, the objecting property owners will be required to make payment with interest, back-dated to 1 July 2018, for the valuation arising from the objection outcome,” he said.
Member of the Mayoral Committee for Health and Social Development in the City of Joburg, Dr Mpho Phalatse, was shocked and disappointed following an incident where a pregnant woman who was about to go into labour was turned away from Zandspruit Clinic on 6 April. It is alleged that the patient collapsed outside the clinic after she had been told to return home and prepare to go to a hospital. The woman later gave birth to twins inside the same clinic after she was rushed back inside.
The need for access to sustainable human settlements, improved quality of roads, public transport, safety and security and access to health care are some of the issues that dominated Region B’s Integrated Development Plan (IDP) consultation on 14 April.
Region B has been earmarked for a series of projects, including the upgrade of the Roosevelt substation, conversion of Jan Smuts Avenue into a dual carriageway, the upgrade of the Craighall sewer network and the replacement of water pipes in Greenside.
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