The Executive Mayor of Johannesburg, Councillor Dada Morero, will officially launch the White City Jabavu Development Project in Soweto, Region D, alongside the MMC for Human Settlement, Councillor Mlungisi Mabaso, and the MMC for Economic Development, Councillor Nomoya Mnisi.

The City of Johannesburg, in partnership with the Gauteng Department of Sport, Arts, Culture and Recreation, Gautrain, Central Gauteng Athletics (CGA), and Athletics Gauteng North (AGN), is proud to support the return of the iconic City2City Ultra Marathon, taking place on Sunday, 28 September 2025.

City Power is pleased to announce that the commissioning of the long-awaited Mondeor Switching Station is nearing completion, with the project now at its final stages. This R190 million investment is a critical milestone in Johannesburg’s energy infrastructure programme, aimed at ensuring a stable and reliable power supply to customers and key strategic facilities, including Rand Water.

The project comes at a time when communities have been grappling with water disruptions at Rand Water’s Eikenhof Pumping Station. The Mondeor Switching Station has been specifically designed to address this challenge by introducing redundancy in Rand Water’s electricity supply.

The City of Johannesburg is going after its worst defaulters who might soon have their entire electricity infrastructure, including electricity meters, removed as part of the City’s aggressive credit control initiative – under Project Lokisa banner.

The City has already identified more than 1 300 residential customers with a combined municipal debt of R978 million. These customers have failed to pay their municipal accounts for more than a year and risk the possibility of losing their electricity meters due to their persistent non-payment and their refusal to come forward and make arrangements with the City.

Please join us at our main Arbor event in Eldorado Park on 23 September 2025. As we continue our tree planting activities throughout Arbor, so are we honouring the great work that the community of Eldorado Park has achieved in transforming a derelict illegal dumping site into a humble green nook, providing a space of calm, murals from local artists and instilling pride in the face of poverty, unemployment, substance abuse and a sense of disillusionment in a community like Eldos. Eldorado Park, in the south of Joburg, is often described as a violent, neglected, and a forgotten community in Joburg.

The Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG) remains one of the most significant cultural institutions in the City, housing a collection of both national and international importance. As custodians of this treasured heritage, the City of Johannesburg is committed to safeguarding the collection while advancing the restoration of the gallery itself for the benefit of future generations.

In line with the City’s financial regulations under the Generally Recognised Accounting Practice (GRAP) and the Municipal Finance Management Act (MFMA), the JAG collection will be retained within the municipal boundaries of Johannesburg. This ensures compliance with legislation while preserving the City’s custodianship of its cultural assets.

Pikitup, the waste management entity of the City of Johannesburg, wishes to apologise to the residents serviced by the Midrand, Selby, and Marlboro Depots for non-collection of waste and related services due to labour disputes.

The Johannesburg Roads Agency (JRA) is pleased to announce that Lilian Ngoyi Street will officially reopen to traffic on Friday, 12 September 2025 following the successful completion of Phase 1 of the Rehabilitation Project. The newly reconstructed road, between Loveday Street and End Street, will be a one-way street travelling eastbound.

It is an honour and privilege to address you at this important seminar on the role of sub-national governments in the global governance space, hosted here in Johannesburg, the economic heart of South Africa and indeed of the African continent.

This seminar does not stand alone. It builds directly on the 4th International Conference on Financing Sustainable Development Goals, which took place in Seville, Spain, earlier this year.

That global gathering reminded us of a sobering truth: across the world, sub-national and regional governments are under rising pressure. We are contending with growing debt, shrinking investment flows, and reduced aid at precisely the time when communities expect us to deliver on ambitious development and service delivery goals.The global financial system, in its current form, is not adequately designed to support the developmental mandates of cities and provinces.