Ivory Park Secondary School has dethroned Ponelopele Oracle Secondary School to become 2020’s top performing township school in the Greater Ivory Park Area. The Ivory Park Secondary School achieved an impressive pass rate of 91,28% in 2020. The previous year’s top performing school, Ponelopele Oracle Secondary School in Kaalfontein came out third best with 86.38%. […]
Eskom will implement Load Reduction in Kaalfontein, Allandale, Ebony Park (KAE) and surrounding areas of Ivory Park, Lindokuhle, Rabie Ridge and Tswelopelo tomorrow, 5 August 2020 from 05:00 to 09:00 in the morning. The load reduction will be implemented as Ebony Park residents take to the streets to protest against Eskom’s unwillingness to repair or […]
Kaalfontein- The Councilor of Ward 111, Clr Raisibe Matsemela, called a public meeting yesterday the 29th of August 2019. The Community meeting which lasted more than 2 hours was held in the school hall of Oracle Secondary School and along with 111 neighboring wards of 92, 110 and 79 were also in attendance. Clr. R […]
Yesterday, the 13th of December 2019 the Gauteng Provincial Government visited the areas of Ivory Park and Mamelodi. The areas were impacted by wide scale flooding that happened early this week. As part of disaster relief response and efforts the Premier of Gauteng, David Makhura went to the flood stricken areas. The Gauteng Province together […]
Tembisa football club, Ambassadors FC were crowned Philly’s Games 2021 champions. Ambassadors won 3-0 on a penalty shootout on Monday, 3 January 2022. Ambassadors beat 18 Mambas FC in the 30th edition of the Phillys Games tournament. The final was played at Tembisa’s Makhulong Stadium. In an interesting development, the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) technology […]
In a coordinated law enforcement operation, Gauteng Traffic Police, along with the SAPS Flying Squad, Highway Patrol, Wardens Saturation (STT EC), and EMPD STT, responded to a business robbery in Germiston on Wednesday. Suspects made off with 30 pallets of groceries valued at R5.5 million, using a K2500 truck and a Toyota Hilux to transport […]
The Gauteng Department of Health (GDoH) has served the Tembisa Hospital CEO, Dr Lekopane Mogaladi, with a notice to place him on precautionary suspension. The Department said that “it wishes to reiterate its commitment to implementing the recommendations of the report by the Health Ombuds into the circumstances surrounding the care and death of Shonisani […]
Eskom Expo for Young Scientists in Gauteng hosted a science camp today the 27th of November 2019. The Science Camp took place at Jiyana Secondary School in Tembisa and will move to SANBI Botanical Gardens tomorrow. The objective of today’s science camp in Tembisa was to expose learners to different fields of Science and to […]
The Ebony Park branch matric learners visited the Coca-Cola Beverages South Africa (CCBSA) Midrand Plant to learn how Coca-Cola is manufactured, the staff motivated them and they were informed about post-matric opportunities at CCBSA. The aim of this was to get them to write their final exams with a positive mindset. One of the learners […]
After enduring loadshedding for two days in a row. The communities of Kaalfontein, Allandale, Ebony Park (KAE), Ivory Park, Rabie Ridge, Lindokuhle, Tswelopelo and President Park can breathe a sigh of relief. This is as Eskom announced that it will be implementing Stage 3 Loadshedding. According to the Eskom schedule, the above mentioned areas will […]
Shonisani Lethole was tested for COVID-19 before he was admitted to the Tembisa Hospital. Sadly, he died before receiving his results on Monday, 30th of June 2020. Shonisani was admitted with breathing complications. His family claims that two days after his admission, he asked food at the hospital but was not given any. The 35 […]
Tembisa South members received a complaint of concealment of birth in the river between Vusimuzi informal settlement and Isiphethweni section, Tembisa during a clean up campaign. “On arrival the police were shown a transparent plastic next to it was a towel placed on top on a stone inside the river. It is alleged that one […]
Residents of several neighborhoods in the KAE area, including Klipfontein , are still without water following a recent vandalism incident that caused damage to a meter supplying water to the area. According to Rand Water, the bulk supplier to Johannesburg Water, the vandalism incident forced an emergency shutdown, which has severely impacted the water supply […]
Johannesburg Water has announced an upcoming maintenance project by Rand Water that will impact the Palmiest System, including water supply to Midrand regions. The maintenance is scheduled to take place from 25 January to 26 January 2025 and involves repairing a leak on the O2 pipeline. Impact on Midrand During the maintenance, the water supply […]