Covid-19: Mayor Geoffrey Makhubo monitors compliance around Joburg
Mayor Geoffrey Makhubo met with leaders at hostels to highlight the importance of the lockdown.
The executive mayor of the City of Johannesburg, Geoffrey Makhubo recently visited several areas within the City in an effort to monitor public compliance with the lockdown and related regulations.
The visit also intended to monitor the service delivery interventions that have been made by the City to intensify waste removal, provide water supply, sanitation services and awareness on the coronavirus and lockdown as pronounced by President Cyril Ramaphosa.
Makhubo said, “We are pleased that a majority of citizens have heeded the call and are in compliance with the regulations that relate to the lockdown. However, in highly dense areas such as the Denver, George Goch and Jeppe hostels which we visited today [28 March], there is a need to intensify awareness on the lockdown and to enforce the laws as they relate to the sale of liquor and spaza-shops.”
In all three hostels, the mayor and his delegation found residents converged in groups of more than 100 with complete disregard of social-distancing. “We have managed to engage with izinduna (leaders) at the hostels, who have agreed to cooperate and collaborate with the government in creating awareness and enforcing compliance. Several of the gatherings were dispersed upon conclusion of our engagements and we are pleased with the understanding and cooperation of izinduna.”
The City of Johannesburg, working with the provincial and national spheres of government, will continue to enforce compliance, engage communities where there is non-compliance and assist residents to be safe and protected. The City also ran an extensive drive over three days to clean and sanitise taxi ranks and bus stops in an effort to protect residents and public spaces.
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