The City of Ekurhuleni confirms that the Head of Department for Human Resources, Ms Linda Gxasheka, has been placed on precautionary suspension, with immediate effect. This decision follows a resolution of the Municipal Council taken on 18 November 2025, which delegated authority to the City
Operations at the Weltevreden landfill site in Brakpan have been halted due to escalating dangerous working conditions resulting from illegal mining activities and clashes between illegal miners and waste reclaimers. The city has closed the landfill site to protect employees and customers from potential harm. The site will remain closed indefinitely until the environment
The City of Ekurhuleni’s Waste Management Business Unit hosted a webinar on Wednesday, 10 December 2025, for its business stakeholders on the 2025/26 waste tariff structure, its policy clauses, and implementation thereof. Tariffs are one of the revenue-generating sources for any municipality. Although municipalities receive subsidies from the national government,
The City of Ekurhuleni calls on the owners of the vehicles in the EMPD pound to collect them between today, 8 December 2025, and 27 January 2025. These vehicles were impounded by the members of the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department (EMPD) for different offences across the city. To claim these vehicles, the owners or authorised […]
GERMISTON – The City of Ekurhuleni has received a notification from Rand Water of a scheduled maintenance on its bulk water supply infrastructure, from Sunday, 07 December to Monday, 15 December. The maintenance will affect water supply to various parts of the city on different days including Edenvale, Bedfordview, Germiston, Thembisa,
GERMISTON – The City of Ekurhuleni confirms that the Head of Department for Legal and Risk Services, Adv. Kemi Behari, has been placed on precautionary suspension with full remuneration. This decision follows the resolution of the Municipal Council taken on 18 November 2025, which delegated authority to the City Manager to act in terms of the Local […]
This year’s World Aids Day is observed under the theme Overcoming disruption,transforming the Aids response. This directly speaks to the massive shift onattention poured on this health condition as experienced some months earlier. Weexperienced a major financial blow when the United States abruptly halted and endedprograms promoting effective response to HIV/Aids due to
The City of Ekurhuleni women employees participated in a candlelight ceremony to mark the start of the 16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children campaign on Tuesday, 25 November, at the OR Tambo Government Precinct Administration building in Germiston. The ceremony was officiated by the Executive Mayor Alderman Nkosindiphile Xhakaza, alongside […]
Gender based violence against the most vulnerable members of society and femicide continue to wrack havoc in our communities. This is the reason we, as South Africa, are still championing the safety of all our people equally across gender, age, race and sexuality. No one deserves to be abused or violated in any form or […]
Germiston – The City of Ekurhuleni invites patrons to a comedy show, headlined by Leagen Wayans titled: ‘My Name is Leagen Wayans’, to officially kick-start the city’s performing arts’ jam-packed festive season programme at the Dumisani Masilela Theatre in Germiston this Saturday, 29 November 2025. Wayans is a well-known










