Pikitup staffer Magret Raluswinga helps with the clean-up campaign

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City departments like the emergency management services are on hand to answer questions from the community

Before the clean-up at Northern Farms

City helps Diepsloot community clean up their act The latest of the City's efforts to promote a secure, clean and healthy environment helped Diepsloot community members join hands and pool resources. June 12, 2006 By Thabang Mokoka THE City pulled out all the stops in a clean-up operation on Johannesburg Water's Northern Farm, on the border of Diepsloot. The clean-up – part of the Letsema Programme, a communal tradition whereby members of the community help each other with projects too difficult for one family – was also intended to educate the local community about caring for the environment and making use of the services offered by City utilities. Assistant director for project implementation in Area A housing, Albert Langeveldt, gives a hand cutting the grass with City Parks' staff members On the morning of Friday, 9 June, staff from Johannesburg City Parks set about cutting the long grass, while Pikitup collected all the rubbish and litter, and Johannesburg Water provided refreshments. Other City departments like the emergency management services and housing department were on hand to answer questions from the community. "[This] was to introduce the different levels of service delivery in the area and alert residents about the role they can play in keeping their environment clean," said the assistant director for project implementation Area A housing, Albert Langeveldt. Area A incorporates Johannesburg's Regions 1 and 2. "It was also an opportunity for the utilities to introduce themselves to the people." Calling for co-operation between the residents and the City departments, Ward 96's community liaison officer Nelson Mphahlele said, "We are here to help the people and the people must help us." While Mphahlele was pleased about the outcome of the clean-up, he was already looking to new projects, including a mobile clinic and a satellite police station. Permission to use web site material Publishers may use material from this site free of charge, as long as: Credit is given to either the "City of Johannesburg website (www.joburg.org.za)" or to "Johannesburg News Agency (www.joburg.org.za)"; If the article is used online, a link is provided to the original article on this website; The name of the article's author is acknowledged; The webmaster is informed of how and where the material is used (fill in this brief online form). Johannesburg News Agency is operated by BIG Media at 011-484-1400 Print this Page E-mail this article to a friend Help using Joburg.org.za