Words: Kimberly Mutandiro and GroundUp Staff The future of hundreds of Ethiopian traders whose businesses were closed down last week at the Marble Towers precinct in central Johannesburg...
The City of Johannesburg has enough cash on hand to operate for only 12 days if an unexpected emergency arises, Mayor Dada Morero warned, as the...
Johannesburg mayor Dada Morero pressed ahead with a city clean-up in the CBD on Thursday, saying “no one is above the law” as legal action temporarily...
The City of Johannesburg has intensified its campaign to reclaim the inner city, with Marble Towers becoming the latest target in a coordinated operation aimed at...
Owners of structures at Marble Towers have secured an interim interdict that has temporarily stopped municipal demolition work, the city said on 16 July 2026. Municipal...
Videos showing crowds fleeing a Johannesburg CBD commercial building during a by-law enforcement operation have drawn widespread attention after Executive Mayor Dada Morero called for urgent...
City of Johannesburg Mayor Dada Morero has set out measures to address the city’s mounting debts, saying the municipality will repay Eskom and settle other outstanding...
Treasury freezes R3.6bn earmarked for Joburg as government targets financially troubled municipalities Johannesburg is among 69 municipalities affected by Treasury’s latest financial intervention The City of...
Outgoing Johannesburg mayor Dada Morero told Parliament this week his administration is committed to restoring the city’s finances after revelations that the municipality wrote off R45.16...
Herman Mashaba and Johannesburg mayor Dada Morero publicly clashed over responsibility for the city’s financial problems during a parliamentary briefing on the municipality’s 2024/25 audit outcomes....