Pikitup Norwood depot will not be re-opening on the 1st of June 2020 as previously communicated.   The depot was closed after suspected cases of Covid-19, tests results are still pending. As a precautionary measure, management has decided to extend the closure of the depot until such time that all the test results have been received.  [...]

The management of Pikitup were alerted on 14 May 2020 that two family members of one of the employees at the Norwood depot have tested positive for Covid-19.  The employee has since been tested by the Wellness department and the results are pending. Consequent to this discovery, management resolved to immediately close the depot as [...]

MMC for Environment and Infrastructure Services Department Cllr Mpho Moerane has learnt that two Pikitup employees have been tested for Covid-19 after a screening procedure indicated that they displayed symptoms related to the virus. It has also emerged that two family members of one of the affected employees were Covid-19 positive.   Both employees stationed [...]

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Pikitup, the waste management entity of the City of Johannesburg continues to render waste collection services during the lockdown period and appeals to residents to take a precautionary measure of sanitizing their bin lids. Despite Pikitup employees being provided with protective clothing during this period, the call is made to residents to practice extra caution [...]

The MMC of Environment and Infrastructure Services Department (EISD) Cllr. Mpho Moerane and Pikitup, hosted the #KleenaJoburg Campaign in Phumla Mqashi Informal Settlement, Vlakfontein.

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Pikitup the waste management company of the City of Johannesburg has paid the outstanding salaries of the contracted EPWP employees who earlier this morning disrupted waste collection services. Pikitup can confirm that as from this morning, 1596 EPWP have been paid their outstanding salaries for the period 17 December 2019 to 30 January 2020. The [...]

The services of Pikitup, the waste management company of the City of Johannesburg, will be disrupted today because Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) employees have embarked on protest action. The protest action by the EPWP employees has resulted in them closing depot gates thus preventing Pikitup trucks and employees from leaving the depots. The EPWP [...]

 Executive Mayor Cllr Geoff Makhubo and MMC for Environment and Infrastructure Services Department Cllr Mpho Moerane invites members of the media and community members of Alexandra Township to the #KleenaJoburg clean-up campaign this coming weekend.  Stakeholders from the Johannesburg Metro Police Department,  Citizens Relationship and Urban Management (Crum), Emergency Management Services (EMS), Social Development, Joburg  [...]