Gloria Matshusa passing on the message of keeping Joburg clean

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The big clean heads for city centre Street inspectors, 24-hour cleaning services, education - these are just some of the tools Joburg is using in its massive, five-year plan to clean the inner city. August 14, 2007 By Tabisa Mntengwana REGION F's streets will be noticeably cleaner soon, given a five-year campaign that was started in early August. Through the campaign, people in the inner city will learn about the importance of keeping the area clean. It began with workshops teaching community members about illegal dumping, littering, poor management of street trading, street taxi ranking and waste management. "The campaign is also set to teach the community about inner city by-laws," said Shaun O'Shea the manager in the City's stakeholder management and liaison office. In the workshops, people raised issues such as not having enough bins, irregular refuse collection, water leakages and incomplete maintenance and repairs. "All these complaints have been logged to their various departments and will be taken into consideration," O'Shea added. SA's premier city One of the aims of the campaign is to revive the Johannesburg CBD, helping it to reclaim its position as South Africa's premier city. This is a part of the Inner City Regeneration Charter, a plan drawn up after extensive consultation with all stakeholders to improve the area. Another focus is to stop the breakdown of services. "This will be achieved by dovetailing this initiative with all other programmes aimed at uplifting standards of living, ensuring civic pride and instilling a culture of city pride within the inner city," reads a press statement. Under the campaign, cleaning services will operate 24 hours a day for the next five years. "To ensure that this campaign is sustainable, we have decided that it [must run] for the next five years," said Region F's regional director, Nathi Mthethwa. "This is what makes this campaign different from previous ones, which were conducted on an ad hoc basis." In addition to educational workshops and permanent cleaning services, street inspectors will patrol the area, on the look out for illegal dumping and such issues. "These inspectors will work hand-in-hand with other council departments … with related competencies in maintaining cleanliness," adds the press statement. They will make it easy to identify dumping hot spots and bring swift measures to control it. The campaign was a joint venture between the City and its entities, such as City Power and Pikitup, O'Shea explained. 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