City of Johannesburg rolls out six-week inner-city cleanup blitz

By Staff Reporter

City of Johannesburg mayor Dada Morero has launched an accelerated service delivery operation in the Inner City as part of the Inner-City Revitalisation Programme.

Launched on Thursday, the initiative is aimed at tackling various service delivery challenges across Region F, encompassing all 11 wards.

Central to this operation is enhancing collaboration among municipal entities such as City Power, Joburg Water, Pikitup, Johannesburg Roads Agency, Joburg City Parks, and Zoo.

The initiative, themed “Re-imagining Joburg through the eyes of the residents,” targets critical issues exacerbated by vandalism, illegal water and electricity connections, unauthorised advertising, dumping, parking, trading, and other social and economic concerns.

Morero said key challenges identified in the region include high in-migration pressures, widespread illegal dumping, a perceived high-risk inner city image, housing backlog leading to illegal land use, increased building occupation and hijacking, urban decay, aging infrastructure, inadequate maintenance of social amenities like clinics and