GERMISTON – The City of Ekurhuleni wishes to inform residents and ratepayers that essential services will continue throughout the festive season. However, council offices will be closed on Tuesday, 16 December 2025 as it is a public holiday, and from 13:00 on 24 December 2025 and reopen on Friday, 2 January 2026. During the recess period, residents […]

The City would like to assure residents that waste removal services will continue as usual during the festive season except on Christmas Day, 25 December 2025. All areas that are due to be serviced on Christmas Day, will be serviced the following week, as per the waste removal calendar. On all the other days, including […]

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 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 Manager to consider and implement precautionary suspensions in terms of […]

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,