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 [...]
The Waste Management Company of the City of Johannesburg, Pikitup provides a free bulky waste service to collect unwanted waste from households (e.g. old mattresses, old furniture, fridges etc.) in an effort to deal with the illegal dumping across the city. The aim of this initiative is to divert recyclables away from the landfill sites [...]
Dear News Editor/Journalist Pikitup, the City of Johannesburg’s waste management entity, would like to advise Joburg residents and business owners that refuse will be collected on all public holidays except on Christmas Day, Wednesday 25 December 2019. Residents whose scheduled waste collection day falls on Christmas Day are advised to keep their refuse bins inside [...]
It’s out with the old and in with the new for Pikitup Southdate Depot, after the Member of Mayoral Committee for Environment and Infrastructure Services, Councillor Nico de Jager, and Pikitup officials re-opened the depot following R24 million refurbishment and renovations. The renovations of changing rooms, toilets, offices, the erection of new fence and new [...]
Government Gazette Staatskoerant REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA REPUBLIEK VAN SUID AFRIKA Vol. 648 7 June Junie 2019 No. 42514 9 7 7 1 6 8 2 5 8 4 0 0 3 ISSN 1682-5843 42514 LOCAL GOVERNMENT: MUNICIPAL FINANCE MANAGEMENT ACT, 2003 MUNICIPAL COST CONTAINMENT REGULATIONS, 2019 The Minister of Finance has, acting with the [...]
30 May 2019 Release: immediate Pikitup has resumed waste collection services in Yeoville, Bellevue and Bellevue East following the recent service disruptions in these areas. The services were disrupted when the residents in the areas prevented Pikitup from discharging its responsibilities of collecting waste, rendering street cleaning services and clearing illegal dumping spots. Pikitup will [...]
Due to ongoing violent protests east of the inner city, Pikitup is currently unable to render services in Yoeville, Bellevue and Bellevue East. Unfortunately, refuse collection, street cleaning and the clearing of illegally dumping has not been rendered in these areas and the disruption of waste collection services has resulted in large quantities of waste [...]
