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Investment in the Inner City is booming thanks to the continuous hard work and investment by the Johannesburg Inner City Business Coalition (JICBC). A study recently completed by the Central Johannesburg Partnership (CJP) reveals that members of the JICBC have invested nearly R4 billion between 2006 and 2009 in the Inner City of Johannesburg. The study also indicates that capital investment by the private sector in public space and including joint ventures is sitting at a staggering R27,4 million from 2006 to 2009. Further investment of R120 million in the public space is planned over the next three years. Many members of the JICBC are also committed to and are members of Joburg’s Inner City improvement districts (CIDs). A clear indication that improved management of the public space supports and enables investment by the private sector in property in the Inner City.

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Pay more for better roads

Gauteng's prepaid toll solution is to become the national standard. When Gautengers are tolled for using the province's busiest freeways in early 2011, the system will work somewhat like a prepaid cell phone contract.
To see the details of how this sytems works – and how it affects YOU as a commuter, visit the www.joburgcentral.co.za website and click under “news”.
 

Rissik Street Post Office to be restored

Hans Jooste of the Johannesburg Inner City Business Coalition (JICBC) writes:

The Rissik Street Post Office building caught fire on 1 November last year, and the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality has since taken measures to ensure that the safety and security of the general public is not compromised. There is a strong security presence on site and access to the building is restricted.

Photo: Steps are being taken by the City to restore the historic Rissik Street Post Office

Serious hiccup in an ambitious plan

Derived from Thabiso Thakali’s article in the Saturday Star

The Gauteng Provincial Government had a brilliant plan to place all the provincial government departments into one central hub in the Joburg CBD. This would centralize and therefore improve service delivery, and also help to revitalise the CBD.

Work on this ambitious project, which was to be called the Kopanong Precinct, was started in 2007 and has however been put on hold for the last six months, at great cost to the taxpayer. Cranes and other equipment have been standing idle and assets such as lifts that were purchased are just gathering dust. Now some buildings, which have inadequate security, have also been invaded by vagrants at night.
 
Photo: A proposal for a new office block in the Kopanong precinct in central Johannesburg

A retrospective on the World Cup

“The expensive lessons we learnt were 1) An effective and visible police force lowers the crime rate 2) African national teams cannot match European national teams in this kind of competition 3) An effective late night public transport system means fewer deaths by drunken driving 4) More public rubbish bins means less litter 5) If you can’t see poverty it doesn’t exist and 6) Large spectacles divert our attention away from the issues.

These were hardly lessons we needed to spend a couple hundred hospitals and schools on ...”

Photo: It’s now time to sum up what the world cup actually meant for South Africa