Service - Leadership in Government - Issue 77

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municipality
Waste management
The City collects and removes 1.72-million (92.9%)
households’ refuse weekly. An additional 11 100 (0.6%)
households have their refuse removed less often than
weekly; 94 351 (5.1%) make use of communal refuse
dumps, while 14 800 (0.8%) use their own refuse dump,
and 9 250 (0.5%) reportedly have no refuse removal. A
total of 131 352 (7.1%) households experience backlogs
(below formal once-weekly collection). Over a 10-year
period, this rate has increased.
Constitution Hill is a living museum that tells the story
of South Africa’s journey to democracy. The site is a
former prison and military fort that bears testament
to South Africa’s turbulent past and today is home to
the country’s Constitutional Court, which endorses the
rights of all citizens.
The City collects 1.8-million tons
of garbage each year:
244 200 tons in the form of
illegal dumping and
1 779 tons is street litter.
Gold Reef City is an amusement park in Johannesburg.
Located on an old gold mine which closed in 1971, the
park is themed around the gold rush that started in 1886.
“The City of tomorrow is one where there are new
landmarks for opportunity. It is a place where all
homes are digitally connected and where Joburg is a
safe city for all its residents. Let us work together to
make this a reality. We must ensure that we are smart,
clean and green, empowering the youth and vulnerable,
supported by an accountable government, and an active,
engaged citizenry.”
– Executive Mayor Makhubo (recently deceased),
State of the City Address, 6 May 2021
PLACES OF INTEREST
The Apartheid Museum opened in 2001 and is
acknowledged as the pre-eminent museum in the world
dealing with 20th-century South Africa, at the heart of
which is the apartheid story.
The Nelson Mandela Bridge is 295 metres long and can
carry 3 000 cars per hour. The total cost of the bridge is
R120-million and construction took 18 months.
Soweto is a sprawling conglomeration of houses and
shack settlements about 20km south-west of the City.
A plan for the creation of a Soweto Heritage Precinct
that takes place in important historical sites in Orlando
West in particular, has been approved by the City. S
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ENGAGING
ENVIRONMENT
• Year-round daily
sunshine
• Average 12 hours of
sunlight per day
• Clear blue skies
• Winters are short
and mild
• Temperature neither
humid nor too hot
• Largest man-made
forest in the world
with six-million trees
throughout the city
• Altitude is 2 000m
above sea-level
• 17 nature reserves
• 12 river systems
• 63ha of bird
sanctuaries
• 1 000ha of
green space
• 4 443ha of open veld
• 80ha of botanical
gardens
• 106 dams
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