The launched kicked off with the smart online bill management service for residential customers, government, companies and managing agents.
In an effort to improve access to municipal customer services, the City of Johannesburg has launched its e-Joburg portal on October 6.
The portal, introduced by Executive Mayor Mpho Moerane and MMC of Finance Matshidiso Mfikoe, is set to deliver municipal services in a more convenient way for customers, and reduce the time and manual work load on the City’s resources.
Read more: ZA: E-Joburg portal will make it easier for ratepayers
The Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (DTIC) has approved R50-million in grant funding towards an estimated R1.5-billion smart city, which will integrate business, retail, commercial, industrial, hospitality and residential land uses that fulfil all requirements of a town in Nkunzama village, Limpopo.
This is according to Trade, Industry and Competition Deputy Minister Nomalungelo Gina, speaking during the official launch of the Nkuna City project by the Masingita Group of Companies in Nkunzana village.
Read more: ZA: DTIC approves R50m grant funding for smart city in Limpopo
President Cyril Ramaphosa announced in his 2021 state of the nation address that the Lanseria Smart City, the first new city to be built in a democratic South Africa, is now a reality in the making. Plans for the Lanseria Smart City – first known as Cradle City – started in 2007 with the idea of creating South Africa’s first city built around an airport.
Read more: South Africa’s new Lanseria mega smart city plan and what it will look like
The ANC has been working on plans for a new South African smart city between Port St Johns and Margate on the Wild Coast, reports the Sunday Times.
Minister of cooperative governance and traditional affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma presented the plan at the ANC’s national executive committee lekgotla earlier this month.
Read more: New South African smart city planned in unexpected location
Instead of highfalutin proposals like building a ‘smart city’, Cyril and Co should figure out how to build toilets
There’s a theory about why Dubai looks the way it does, namely, like a hundred shiny suppositories pointed at the sun.
In a nutshell, it’s all about who got to Arabia’s oil first, which history and rising damp in Miami tell us was the US. (The British Empire, believing that industry would forever be powered by weak tea, failed to dispatch the necessary bribes and gunboats in time.)
Read more: ZA: ANC to build a ‘smart city’ — that’s an indisputable oxymoron