The City of Joburg is not the only one sprucing up ahead of the G20 meeting in Gauteng.
President Cyril Ramaphosa, visited the Gauteng Province for two days, last week, to meet with a high level delegation of National Ministers and Deputy Ministers, the Premier of Gauteng – Panyaza Lesufi with his Cabinet and Executive Mayor Dada Morero together with MMCS and city officials.
It will take an estimated R10 billion to clean up the City of Gold, with dumping sites and gashes in some streets.
The George Municipality is also scaling up its anti dumping awareness campaigns.
In February alone, the Community Services Department of the town, collected over 20,000 bags of illegally dumped waste, totalling more than 115 cubic tons.
This is an equivalent of 385 tipper truckloads of refuse removed from open spaces and transported to the municipal dumping site.
In total, tipper trucks moved 1,315 cubic meters of waste throughout the campaign.
Alderman Jackie von Brandis, Executive Mayor of George, said “thank you to everyone who took part in this effort. We began in Rosedale and Pacaltsdorp, and today we stand here reflecting on the incredible impact we have made together.”
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