Cllr Neuren's Diary and Notice Board

04/09/2026

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02/09/2026

31/08/2026

KENSINGTON: FIX QUEEN STREET

Queen Street is unsafe: broken pavements, potholes, bad stormwater, failing lights, overgrown verges.

Sewer collapse years ago. City repaired the pipe but never restored the road or pavements. Temporary patches have sunk and cracked.

We need:
• Pavement rebuild
• Road resurfacing
• Stormwater repair
• Streetlight fixes
• Verge + tree root management
• JMPD enforcement
• Clear City timeline

Please sign and share.
Let’s get Queen Street repaired.
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The data collected will be submitted to the city, MMCs and the petitions committee.

Residents are calling for URGENT action from the City of Johannesburg, JRA, JWater, City Parks and City Power to fix Queen Street and it's Pavements. The DA may use the data in compliance with the DA's POPI policy. KENSINGTON: FIX QUEEN STREET Queen Street is unsafe: broken pavements, potholes, bad....

26/08/2026

The Executive have dodged responding to the issue of reinstating Queen Street by refering the matter knowi g full well that the issue is at JWaters feet.

JRA has purportedly quoted JWater R13 million to rebuild the 500m of roadway and JWater has stated that they do not have this money. This matter needs the executive to come together and find a way to resolve this. Instead they have decided to handle the matter like a hot🔥 potatoe🥔. This executive is not focused on delivering services and more inclined to avoid responsibility that the ratepayer pays them to take on.

Cllr Neuren Pietersen

26/08/2026

Dear Residents
Today is day 1 of a two day council session whereby we table, debate and note oversight reports, loans and appointments. I have my usual slots speaking on the Supply Chain Management reports. These three items will likely be considered tomorrow.

Also we should be receiving response to my questions re the reinstating of Queen Street.

Please check us out on youtube. Link below.

https://www.youtube.com/live/oFqccXTZjJU?si=UbYhpBrSUutLfRqF

Cllr Neuren Pietersen

Day 1 - The Speaker of Council, Cllr Margaret Arnolds, has convened...

24/08/2026

CityPolitics

With Helen Zille

Edition 19

Two very welcome things happened this week.
There was an endorsement from former Wits University Vice-Chancellor Adam Habib. This was doubly pleasing as he and I have differed before. What was important was when he said “If she does not get an overall majority, the city and South Africa are doomed”. This supports the case we have been making and that is being echoed by an increasing number of people: South Africa’s economic success is centred on Joburg. If the city fails, the country will fail too. The only way to stop this is to elect people with a track record of success who will not tolerate the continuance of syndicated corruption. If elected, we will do our level best to justify the confidence placed in us.

This pivotal importance of Joburg's recovery was the core message of a hefty report from the heavyweight think tank, the Centre for Development Enterprise. It’s entitled “Johannesburg matters: Fixing South Africa’s Growth Engine “. It says Joburg is the one municipality whose failure would make national success impossible. The report says Joburg can be fixed only if the elections produce a new and stable city political leadership that mobilises the best possible people (not only from within political parties) to help fix the city. If you’re thinking that doesn’t sit well with cadre deployment, you’d be right. If you’re thinking that this fits with our analysis - you’d be right too.

Dysfunctional low-point of the week was our oversight visit to Joburg’s asphalt plant. We got there to find the plant had not been operational for weeks, apparently because they had not paid the company that supplies their gas. Employees refused us entry, saying we needed the permission of the City Manager. As I was visiting with a member of Parliament and a City Councillor, this was clearly nonsense designed to hide the true state of the plant from oversight by elected representatives of Joburg’s residents. Oversight requires unannounced visits, otherwise it defeats the purpose.

The impact of this dysfunctionality is easy to see. One of the clearest demonstrations is on a stretch of road on Malibongwe Drive between Robindale and Jacanlee. The contractor who was resurfacing the road stopped half way when the city stopped paying. The road is unsurfaced and a dusty, dangerous mess. With no asphalt and no contractor, there’s no solution in sight.

One thing that’s been bothering me is the way that the deteriorating city has come to be accepted by residents. Joburgers are so resilient they all just adapt to any and every collapse of city services and treat it as normal. I suppose there is a limit to outrage, but this is not normal. We need to build a better normal.

15/08/2026

08/08/2026

🩷 KCEA: WE ARE MOVING FORWARD 🩷

An important milestone has been reached in the Kensington Central Enclosure project. The deposit for the Traffic Impact Study has been paid, and the study can now proceed.

So, what happens next?

The study will be undertaken by a private traffic engineering firm and is expected to take approximately eight weeks to complete. It will assess how traffic currently moves through Kensington Central and how the proposed enclosure could affect the surrounding road network.

Traffic data will be collected at selected points across the area, looking at volumes, intersections, access points, movement patterns and peak-hour conditions.

There are currently roadworks affecting parts of Kensington, which can temporarily distort normal traffic patterns. Traffic engineers use established modelling methodologies, algorithms, available historical data and comparative traffic information to identify and adjust for these anomalies when developing the traffic model.

Where historical data is not available, engineers can build a representative baseline using comparable street scenarios elsewhere in the city, available GPS-derived traffic information and computer simulations. Advanced algorithms can then model what normal traffic patterns should look like without the temporary disruption caused by roadworks.

If particular roads have been too significantly affected to produce reliable results through modelling and adjustment, traffic counts on those roads may need to be redone.

The Traffic Impact Study is only the first stage of the costs that lie ahead. This is a community-funded project, and we now need everyone who is on board with the enclosure to start contributing the R250 monthly payment.

The more households that participate, the more affordable the project becomes for each of us individually. Your monthly contributions need to start now, as we start working through the different stages of implementation, not only once the enclosure is in place.

To those residents who have already started contributing, thank you very much.

We have started. Now we need the community behind it.

One community. One goal. One safer Kensington. 🩷

07/08/2026