Kimberly Mutandiro

2 weeks ago | allafrica.com | Kimberly Mutandiro

Fix our flats, protesters tell municipality More than a hundred residents of municipal flats in Actonville, Benoni marched to the City of Ekurhuleni's offices on Wednesday. They say electricity meters have been removed or blocked, rentals are too high, flats are not maintained, and they are being mistreated by municipal officials. They also want the ownership of the flats transferred to them, as has been done at other municipal flats in Johannesburg. GroundUp reported on the flats in February 2024.

2 weeks ago | groundup.org.za | Kimberly Mutandiro

More than a hundred residents of municipal flats in Actonville, Benoni marched to the City of Ekurhuleni’s offices on Wednesday. They say electricity meters have been removed or blocked, rentals are too high, flats are not maintained, and they are being mistreated by municipal officials. They also want the ownership of the flats transferred to them, as has been done at other municipal flats in Johannesburg. GroundUp reported on the flats in February 2024.

2 weeks ago | buff.ly | Kimberly Mutandiro

Lawyers at the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI) have sent a letter of demand to the City of Johannesburg over the removal of informal traders from Kopanong in Ivory Park, Midrand. According to the letter, the informal traders were allocated spaces in containers where the City set up a market at Kopanang in 2016. The market is in a straight line and is therefore called a linear market. This allows officials to better manage street trading and improve pedestrian movement.

3 weeks ago | groundup.org.za | Kimberly Mutandiro

Over 50 residents occupying RDP houses in Nigel’s Mackenzieville Extension 2 protested outside the City of Ekurhuleni’s offices in Germiston on Thursday, demanding electricity and other basic services. Hundreds of residents unlawfully occupied the RDP houses in 2019 after the project was left incomplete and abandoned due to contractor failures.

3 weeks ago | allafrica.com | Kimberly Mutandiro

Residents demand municipality fulfil its promises Residents of Palmridge's Tsietsi Phase 5 and Phase 6 informal settlements in Katlehong are demanding that the City of Ekurhuleni urgently provide services. Residents say many of them have have lived in these two informal settlements since 1994. The settlements have grown since then and are now home to over 2,000 households. Yet there is no formal electrification, and up to ten families must share one chemical toilet.