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NOVEMBER 2007
Joburg declares war on abuse
Art used to examine social issues
Ballet group offers classic mix
Shack settlements: not here to stay
Joburg is Africa's economic leader
City Parks snags big awards
Learn to be a field guide
City lends its support to hospice
All systems go for 46664 concert
Rotary Club donates wheelchairs
Football is a 'beautiful business'
Take an artistic drive north
City speaks out about HIV and Aids
New building plans centre to open
A week in Joburg: 26 November - 2 December, 2007
Hairspray – much more than just hair care
Metro cops ready to pop corks
Scuba divers to clean zoo's moats
City holds by-law blitz in Region E
Sleeping Beauty gets her prince
Working conditions under spotlight
Satisfaction levels are on the up
Soccerex extends its benefits
No Chrismas boxes, urges Pikitup
Dignity at core of disability event
Singing in the festive season
Trees mark joyful anniversary
Tree of Light to brighten up zoo
Giving everyone the right to flush
Disabled kids invited to party
Joburg is best municipality
Another success for Cycle Challenge
Join the campaign against abuse
A week in Joburg: 19 - 25 November, 2007
Jews celebrate 120 years in Joburg
Satellite technology for Joburg
Festive season theatre wrap
Ballet and orchestra join forces
Roodepoort Museum back in business
Tarred roads bring investment
Pedal power to take over Joburg
Park-and-ride offered for soccer
Mayor lends support to Joburg Open
Benin's Gaba brings art to JAG
Black eaglet finally gets a name
City comes up with new equity plan
Exhibition focuses on Holocaust
Rapunzel lets her hair down
Solemn tribute paid to SA's fallen
Lira, Jozi top awards nominations
Putting region G firmly on the map
A week in Joburg: 12 - 19 November, 2007
By-law blitz held in Region G
Inner city partners get on board
Pikitup wins business award
SS Mendi heroes to be remembered
Rates tariff on residences released
Cycling royalty will be in Joburg
'Get into football, 'firms urged
Salon owners boost business skills
Night of the Stars is cancelled
Another hundred trees for Soweto
City Parks rewards hard work
Overseeing inner city charter commitments
Sleeping beauty wakes from slumber
Masondo takes on international role
Phakathi keeps tabs on taxi drivers
Market Theatre posts strong growth
Panto is a rollicking good time
The Soweto Marathon: a runner's view
Racing through Soweto
What's in a name?
Ponte gets a second life
A week in Joburg: 5 - 11 November, 2007
Jozi property values soar
Having a little cooking session
Masondo throws his hat into ring
Take a tour with Soweto marathon
SABT holds ballet auditions
Lenasia gets public transport rank
City reaches out to sectional property owners
Bank kicks off 2010 ticket race
Junior mayor speaks about teenage suicide
Crocodile turns up for panto
Keeping Joburg's pets healthy
OCTOBER 2007
Luxury hotel to open in Soweto
Still time to comment on rates
A penny sparked Alex bus boycotts
Lion King run extended, again
Good food and wine are on the men
Proposals sought for Bruma site
Local line-up for 46664 named
Thousands party at Diwali festival
Detour on Cycle Challenge route
A week in Joburg: 29 October - 4 November, 2007
Housing database is on the cards
City's new General Valuation Roll
Boks bring party to Joburg streets
Boks bring party to Joburg streets
Get your tax returns in, pronto
Sport, music at Night of the Stars
Children's safety under spotlight
Mayor endorses Soweto Marathon
Pedestrian Angel visits school
State policies may hamper metros
Bicycle lanes open in Soweto
Taxi industry signs on for Rea Vaya
Gautrain launches MyTrain website
Five June 16 routes are mapped
Zoo has scare or two up its sleeve
Closing the tap on water leakages
Joburg welcomes the Springboks home
OR Tambo Games unite cities
Concert lures Car Free Day crowds
Concert lures Car Free Day crowds
All hail the returning heroes
Eland adds beauty to Braamfontein
Gladys Knight bound for Jozi
Partnering inner city revival
More trees make Soweto greener
A week in Joburg: 22 - 28 October, 2007
Saturday is Car Free Day
Ten groups fill Zwakala Festival bill
Indian sub-continent comes to Jozi
Africa Umoja explodes on to stage
The City's queen of cash flow
Joburg ready to watch rugby
Fifa deadlines 'will be met'
City takes advantage of Saitex
Salga reaffirms its importance
Gautrain inches towards airport
Artists chosen for Diwali festival
Mayor checks in on Region C
Community theatre puts on a show
Safety campaign heads to Norwood
'We want to learn from the best'
Kids look into transport's future
Joburg prepares for Cycle Challenge
Sisonke underground bins opened
Municipalities look at 2010 role
First performers at 46664 named
'I abseiled down Ponte City'
City inspectors enforce by-laws
A week in Joburg: 15 - 21 October, 2007
HOV lane to be set up on M1 North
Taxi drivers learn customer service
Words and music from Promusica
Expect rotating power outages
Family day wraps up Arts Alive
New ways to beat the traffic
Soccer City on track for 2010
Name needed for black eagle chick
Times are changing at Sol Plaatje
History of transport explored
Goggas are in the spotlight
Apply now for Joburg bursaries
No tornado for Joburg
One concert from Black Eyed Peas
African art fair comes to Joburg
Chapel Garden is open for weddings
Inner city captain is hands on
Joburg's broadband plans speed up
Silently teaching road safety
US dance guru holds Jozi workshops
Ballet company holds auditions
A week in Joburg: 8 - 14 October, 2007
Writing workshop focuses on kids
Students to lend a hand in Hillbrow
London VIPs visit Johannesburg
Riding in the bus lane
Wits turns 85 today
Mini F1 cars to race at Kyalami
Concert explores SA music
Cast starts panto rehearsals
Children welcome transport mascot
Klipspruit is spruced up
Gay pride takes to Rosebank streets
Grid-locks and safety top the agenda
Learners' safety tops agenda
Poor Joburgers document their lives
First-class train trip to Soweto
Strikers issue list of demands
Mandela concert to rock Joburg
Weather fails to cool beach party
Burning off the calories
Taking a different route down Ponte
A week in Joburg: 1 - 7 October, 2007
SEPTEMBER 2007
Performers invited to audition
Locked into the Newtown party
Plan to inspire young scientists
EMS opens new training facilities
Get fit for Soweto Marathon
Soweto's Maponya mall opens its doors
Writing competition to hook the youth
Boshoff sets himself no limits
UK quartet to inspire Jozi
Alex streets to be renamed
Soweto theatre-lover honoured
Shop 'til you drop in Soweto
Kids help get Cosmo City ship-shape
Joburg celebrates its heritage
Cat helps her master get the girl
Musicians rock against crime
City buys Xuma's Sophiatown house
A week in Joburg: 25 - 30 September, 2007
Artistic Fence lights up gallery
Jozibonds enter the trading floor
Student council tours city
Joburg has enviable heritage collection
Concert explores music from the movies
Spring blitzes air out inner city
Soccerex heads for Joburg corner
Soweto fest pulls out all the stops
Refreshed Rose Park opens for play
Buskaid celebrates 10 years
War museum marks 60 years
Palace Architects plots Jozi Style
Sharing know-how with neighbours
Plenty of theatre action on cards
Soweto Beach Party surfs into town
Public pools open for summer
Rubbish collection uninterrupted
City staff take to sports fields
Music kicks off the countdown
Exhibition focuses on Taiwan
Mbuli leads Speak the Mind
Cunning cat brings magic to stage
A week in Joburg: 17 - 24 September, 2007
A dream garden turns into reality
City preaches safety to Soweto pastors
Soweto starts the countdown to 2010
'Oscars' to celebrate inner city change
Revised naming policy approved
Turning learners into earners
Joburg promises a big day out
Province to quell taxi violence
Vote for 2010 poster
Joburg official is tops in Gauteng
Unearthing innovative art at JAG
Soweto choir returns home
Fighting global warming in Alex
Sowetans give wine fest a bouquet
The library – enter a magical world
Carnival parade in Jozi
Get your free soil!
Soccer City sees a celebration
City creates thousands of jobs
A week in Joburg: 10 - 16 September, 2007
Basketball legends run Jozi camp
Trees herald spring at Zoo Lake
Marking 1 000 days with song
A thousand days and counting
Yeoville gets its own ICT Hub
Soweto Festival promises fun times
Nene sees wealth in property
Sojo offers the south so much more
Art Bank Joburg turns one
Campaign aims for litter-free city
Teens prepare to jet off to France
City agencies spruce up the inner city
Yeoville's art deco blooms again
Campaign to green Soweto blooms
Jazz gets Joburg in the mood
Golfers tee-off for charity
Floats readied for street carnival
Chefs prepare feast of fine food
A week in Joburg: 3 - 9 September, 2007
AUGUST 2007
Software giants coming to Joburg
Joburg has it all, even skiing
Mama Sisulu gets her own highway
Road closures for Jazz at the Lake
Choose a healthy lifestyle
Arts Alive welcomes spring
JMPD receives training by top guns
Junior chefs can take the heat
Joburg's urban forest to grow
Court reserves judgment on evictions
Hundreds of trees will green Alex
Jive Soweto joins Arts Alive
Dragon boats herald spring
Faith writes the city's history
The Magic Flute
'feels home'
Massive new housing plan for Soweto
Preschool offers safe learning
Region E community needs explored
Fashion ruled the Joburg roost
Environment key to human health
Frog Prince to bring magic to People's Theatre
Warm water the eco-friendly way
A week in Joburg: 27 August - 2 September, 2007
Women share business know-how
Stomping start to Joy of Jazz
Economic opportunities discussed
Campaign focuses on litter at zoo
India adds spice to Arts Alive
Joburg zoo makes learning fun
Cuba's Sosa kicks off Arts Alive
Exhibition looks at the missing
Declaring war on unemployment
Fashion Week kicks off in Soweto
Take a smooth ride into work
Peter Pan gets Honeyman treatment
Work towards World Cup forges ahead
Cape's finest visit Soweto
Majestic eland gazes over Gateway
Taking fashion to the township
Drive to provide Kliptown houses
Security tight for Joy of Jazz
A week in Joburg: 20 - 26 August, 2007
Magistrates' courts – blasts, apartheid and art
City is set to be 2010 broadcast capital
City scheme swells skills base
Jozi's public artworks go global
Roads closed around Zoo Lake
Stardom beckons at Moshito lekgotla
Indian flavour adds extra spice
Bring it on, says Jordaan
Face of the City in for a change
Frogs give new spin to Bird Gardens
Zoo Lake holds fund raisers
The big clean heads for city centre
Exhibit brings dinosaurs to life
Acerbic play still relevant today
Homefinder will help EMS crews
Joburg designers to wow Africa
Jazz wind blows through Zoo Lake
A week in Joburg: 13 -19 August, 2007
City's succes 'speaks for itself'
City enforces hawking policy
Mayor leads tour of Region B
Piecing together a success story
Joburg empowers informal traders
City electricity supply stabilising
Now you can invest in your city
Bringing citizen and leader closer
Time to bang the drum for women
Joburg is SA's culture capital
Soccer fans fill Dobsonville park
More cold weather is on the way
Sandton searches for its history
Joy of Jazz Festival draws nearer
Get ready for changes to inner city
A week in Joburg: 6 - 12 August, 2007
Sisonke moves to clean up city
Forum focuses on cleaning Diepsloot
Street names across Jozi finalised
Joshco celebrates its successes
Landfills can create green energy
Me Games uses fun for teaching
Poor kids will see The Lion King
Junior mayor meets her public
'Paris four' to strut fashion stuff
Soweto golf course moves forward
JULY 2007
Women are top of Newtown's agenda
Joburg prepares for new bond issue
Formula One roars back into Joburg
Pass office is a place of shelter
Women's Month packs a fun punch
Exhibition looks at Ethiopian Jews
A week in Joburg: 30 July - 5 August, 2007
Jozi prepares for carnival party
Gauteng to speed up housing
Progress can be seen at Ivory Park
Upgrades are planned for hostels
Jozi welcomes spring with Arts Alive
Public toilets in the spotlight
Huddle Park plan gets the go ahead
Expect the roar of F1 in Sandton
Decorex adds new items to the mix
Children line up for second shots
Chief Luthuli to be honoured at Con Hill
Digging Gautrain holes in Wolmarans Street
Sandton to turn into a racetrack – for real
Pink plans hot Jozi performance
A new, asbestos-free, school rises in Alex
A record number walked the talk
Stirring tales at JAG
Joburg cops get shiny new fleet
A week in Joburg: 23 - 29 July, 2007
Rent brings down the house
Summit seeks finance 'solutions'
Walkabout explores traditional art
Memory and revenge stalk stage
City development in the spotlight
Mayor hosts African diplomats
New police academy trains the best
Trees blossom for Madiba
Joburg gears up for Walk the Talk
Work steams ahead on geology museum
Happy birthday, Madiba
City ready for second inoculations
French youth learn about Jozi peers
Personal tax returns in the post
Joburg home to city's first Science Park
969 is back in Jozi
Line up the bins, it's collection day
Freddie Jackson to serenade Jozi
A week in Joburg: 16 - 22 July, 2007
Joburg on show at global exhibition
Dome offers new room at Con Hill
US gospel great has two Jozi dates
Have a health check before you walk
Clinton in Jozi to tackle climate change
WWE Superstars expected in Jozi
Thousands of kids to learn to dance
Jazz workshops on the cards
Lion King's run is extended
City to speed up development approvals
Award winning teen has more ideas
City planners have 'tough job'
Green Scorpions target developers
Safer appliances to prevent fires in Alex
Joburg Zoo earns world-class status
Oliver Twist delights young and old
Mayaba: putting Joburg on IT map
Taxi operators take up scrap offer
Musical to bring love and peace to Windybrow
A week in Joburg: 9 - 15 July, 2007
Joburg rocks against global warming
Credo Mutwa Village now almost complete
Linder's new grand piano flies in soon
Trees blossom in Braamfontein
Gautrain – R5,8bn spent so far
Sci-Bono shuts while shows change
Jail and bail for extreme offenders
SAPS posts a drop in contact crime
Cold snap to continue biting
Cycle Challenge is back on the road
Upgrades planned for busy roads
Luxury Soweto train on track
Get your boots on for Walk the Talk
Working towards a clean audit
French team shares its knowledge
SowetoTV begins year of broadcasts
Fans won't miss a football moment
Jazz superstars head for Joburg
A week in Joburg: 2 - 8 July, 2007
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