The Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality wishes to inform the entire Brakpan community about a planned electricity shutdown on Sunday, September 12, from 07h00 until 17h00.

The Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality has launched a Revenue Management & Enhancement Programme to drive the financial sustainability of the Metro through strategic intervention and initiatives.

Such is the overwhelming confidence that investors have shown in the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality that in just two hours of opening the bids for its first municipal bond, the city was able to raise the required R815 million.

The Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality has put in place contingency measures to ensure that service delivery is not compromised when members of the SA Municipal Union (SAMWU) embark on a national secondary strike on Thursday – September 02, in support of the Public Service Sector strike.

Residents of informal settlements are often accustomed to using unhygienic containers such as chemical buckets; paint buckets, paraffin tins and some very dirty unconventional containers for water storage resulting in health problems.