Recently rated as the most competitive African city, Johannesburg is working hard to establish itself as a global player. With promises of great things to come, the city recently launched Jozi@work, a R1-billion initiative aimed at creating employment, improving service delivery and speeding up maintenance across the city. “Jozi@work will change the way the city does business in a fundamental way,” said a spokesman for the city. The scheme allows for small and micro businesses from across the income sphere to work together and pitch for city business through its various agencies and utilities. “These enterprises will be delivering services across the entire spectrum of the city’s current activities, including the separation and recycling of waste, resurfacing and maintaining roads and providing frontline support to water and power infrastructure.” “Service delivery and maintenance will, in future, be much more localised. This will result in higher degrees of efficiency, shorter turnaround times and improved levels of accountability,” said the spokesman.
