To clear the backlog on city maintenance, Joburg City Parks and Zoo embarked on a on a three-day blitz to clean up most green spaces in Soweto.
The campaign started in Mofolo, Chiawelo, Dlamini and Jabavu and spread to other areas as well.
City Parks spokeperson jenny Moodley said: “While the rains are welcome, they do slow down maintenance, posing health and safety dangers for city workers; coupled with the city maintaining so many more parks and recreational spaces, this creates a backlog.
“But now, to speed up neatening the city, Johannesburg City Parks and Zoo will be out in full force in a Mega Blitz campaign.”
Forming part of the campaign, more than 100 city parks workers were cutting back overgrown grass, clearing verges and pavements, picking up litter, pruning trees and removing dead branches.
Lunga Ncapai, City Parks’s manager for Region D, said the City would continue identifying areas that need attention through the campaign.
“The Mega Blitz campaigns [will] visit various wards to identify areas that need attention to ensure that we keep Joburg well maintained.
“We are doing our best to curb the backlog of the past months as a result of heavy rains so we could not cover all the areas,” said Ncapai.
For more information on the Mega Blitz campaign, or to report areas needing maintenance, residents can call (011) 375-5555 or email jcp@jhbcityparks.com
