THE 2020-2021 GRA COMMITTEE
2019/2020 GRA committee
Welcome to the
Greenside Residents Association
Where caring for our community matters.
Help keep the Green Crew Alive
Do you love seeing our suburb looking so clean and green? It’s all thanks to the hard work of the Green Crew, who clean, weed, clear illegal dumping and cut the grass and overgrown bushes around the suburb. The team is made up of William Matsheke, Tobias Moyo and Themba Matema who work every Friday…
Greenside Gems : coffees and comfort during Covid
written by Andrew Brouard A coffee shop is not just a coffee shop. It is a refuge from the world’s hurly burly. A place to pause, put brackets around your moment and sip your drink while the mad world briefly recedes.For some people, it’s also about the coffee.Whether purist or refugee, Greenside meets the needs…
GRA newsletter March 7th 2021
Please click the link to read the full newsletter :https://mailchi.mp/3d067033ebe0/gra-newsletter-march-2021 In this edition of the GRA newsletter :Update on GRA activitiesMembership fees due for 2021Continuation of Municipal Planning Tribunal regarding multi-story development (Gleneagles/Barry Hertzog) 12.03.2021Greening UpdateHeritage committee – important information about building plansSecurity News and invite to save the date for Online Greenside Security meeting…
Polyphagous Shothole Borer
Our tree canopy is under threat, and Greenside trees, like those in our neighbouring suburbs are already infested with PSHB. The GRA has undertaken to spread awareness of the extent of this problem, to share important information and to work with all other stakeholders to start finding solutions to this crisis. As a start we…
Appeal : Greenside and Emmarentia Residents Associations November 2020
Working together to protect our suburbs Dear Greenside and Emmarentia residents and business owners We are once more under siege! In 2014/2015, you, in your numbers (2479 of you in total), vehemently objected to the proposed multi-story development on Gleneagles/ Barry Hertzog. This development, in its current form, will extremely negatively affect the residential and…
CPF meeting 26.10.2020- GRA, SAPS Parkview, JMPD and City of Johannesburg
The Greenside Residents Association would like to thank SAPS Parkview, JMPD and the City of Johannesburg land use management department for meeting with us on Monday 26 October. We had a very useful discussion regarding the many law enforcement issues that have long plagued the Greenside business node. These included security issues, dangerous driving, problems…
MOWBRAY ROAD CLOSURE 2020
The closure of Mowbray Road was approved by the City of Johannesburg in 2016. This was a decision supported by the then Greenside Business Association and the Residents Association as a way to manage illegal parking, traffic congestion, problems with car guards and noise disturbances consequent to the ongoing poorly managed illegal land-uses in the…
Rezoning application – from residential 1 to business 1 to allow for a restaurant, Erf 225, 49 Greenfield Rd : October 2020
PLEASE SUBMIT ANY OBJECTIONS BY 6pm on TUESDAY 20th October 2020 (details below) An application has been made for the Residential 1 zoning of erf 225 Greenside (49 Greenfield Rd) to be amended and title deed restrictions to be removed to allow for the development of a ground floor restaurant with 3 dwelling units above…
Giving for Mandela Day 2020
Once again, we are overwhelmed by the kindness and generosity of our Greenside Community. With your help, and led by Bianca Albertini, the GRA were able to fill hungry tummies on Mandela day. (A special thank you to Natasha for the donation of delicious chicken akhni.) We have delivered: Chicken stew, chicken akhni, butternut soup,…
Lockdown Level 4 Trading Info : Greenside
🏡Hello Greenside Residents🏡 LEVEL 4 gives us a little more retail freedom, so let’s use it to support businesses in our suburb. For fresh-made meals, healthcare, basic necessities and more, look below and be good to Greenside. 🙏Thank you🙏
Zoning application – Consent use for a Petrol station, Erf 211 cnr Gleneagles and Greenway : March 2020
PLEASE SUBMIT ANY OBJECTIONS BY 8pm on TUESDAY 17th March 2020 (details below) An application has been made for the Business 1 zoning of erf 211 Greenside (120 Greenway) to be amended to allow for the development of a full petrol station, with additional retail, operating 24 hours, 7 days a week, on the corner…
Greenside’s first ever community “Green Day”
Greenside’s first ever community “Green Day” will be held on Saturday, February 22
EVENT NOTICE : PIRATES 21km RACE – Sunday 16th February 2020
Pirates Half Marathon scheduled to take place on the 16th February 2020.
STATEMENT: GREENSIDE RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION SUNDAY JANUARY 26th 2020
Some of you may have seen social media reports of a disturbance on Greenway on Friday night 24th January 2020, caused by a large group of people fighting in middle of the street. SAPS and JMPD were called and we have been told arrests were made. This is part of a larger, ongoing pattern of…
GRA membership 2020
In order to support the work of the GRA we ask all Greenside households to contribute an eft of the annual fee for 2020 of R450 (reduced rates for pensioners of R225) This helps us keep going and fund our various projects including community building and clean up programmes, our communication and information sharing channels,…
Liquor Licence application : Velvet Hour November 2019
PLEASE SUBMIT ANY OBJECTIONS BY 7pm on TUESDAY 19th November 2019 – details below The GRA will be objecting (as per our policy) to the application for a restaurant liquor licence by Velvet Hour on November 1st 2019. We are not only objecting because of our policy (which is to give us standing to engage…
News from the Greening committee August 2019 : Let’s Work cleanups
Greenside clean-up news August 2019
Greenside Gems : Wire World Crafters – Owen Chisvo
written by Catherine Nixon Owen, together with his older brother Alfred, moved to Jhb from Harare about 6 six years ago now. They set up an informal trade in Greenside and were eventually fortunate enough to secure a permanent spot at Village Green Shopping Centre, where management appreciated that Owen needed an area that wasn’t…
GRA multievent passes 27 July 2019
GRA volunteers will be signing up new members and distributing GRA 2019/2020 multi-event passes this Saturday morning, 27th July between 9am and 1pm at the Village Green shopping centre, outside Woolworths. Each household will be given a pass, but paid up GRA members can receive additional passes. If you are not yet a GRA member…
Greenside Gems : The Greenside Pharmacy
Catherine Nixon : communication@gra.org.za Greenside Pharmacy is a community pharmacy that still has the personal touch of the traditional pharmacy of yesteryear. It was established in 1965, and Head Pharmacist Bilal Takolia took over the practice in 2008. They have five staff members and a locum pharmacist. Bilal is a familiar and welcome face to…
EVENT NOTICE : PIRATES COOL IDEAS 10km & 5km FUN RUN – Sunday July 14th 2019
Cool ideas fun run 2019 information for residents
EVENT NOTICE : 702 Walk the Talk – Sunday July 28th 2019
2019 702 Walk the talk information for residents
Polyphagous Shothole Borer walkabout Saturday June 8th 2019
JUFA (Johannesburg Urban Forest Alliance ) will be doing a PSHB walkabout with Emmarentia and Greenside Residents Associations this Saturday, 8th June 2019 at 11am. We’ll meet at the Botanical Gardens, Emmarentia Dam – meeting point: the parking lot -Thomas Bowler St entrance near the rose garden. An invitation is extended to all concerned Greenside…
Water Pipes replacement project : problem logging
💦Please use this link supplied by the ward councillor to log any remaining issues regarding the water pipe replacement project in Greenside 💦 💦 Use this snag list for any outstanding issues including meter leaks & incomplete installations, pavement & driveway reinstatement’s etc. 💦 https://docs.google.com/…/1FAIpQLSeOfpmOx_DTFb4oGK…/viewform
JRA PLANS : Greenside 2019
The slide show regarding Joburg Roads Agency plans for Greenside can be downloaded here via Google Drive. Please be aware this is a large file Minutes of the meeting held with City of Johannesburg regards these plans on November 27 2019 can be downloaded here
Report back : GRA Annual General Meeting Tuesday April 2nd 2019 @ Greenside High School
Our 2019 AGM was a great success. Thank you to the many Greenside residents who took the time, on a stormy April evening, to attend the AGM. We had a very succesful meeting attended by over 140 people and we were thrilled to see a full hall of concerned, engaged community members. Attendees were greeted…
Greenside Gems : The Greenside Animal Hospital
Greenside Animal Hospital is one of the oldest private veterinary practices in South Africa
Safety tips: are you being “scouted” or “sourced”?
Security companies have noticed a new modus operandi referred to as scouting. Scouts work in shopping centres and survey the space for potential victims with apparent theft value. Scouts will pass information about the victim (what they’re wearing, the car they drive, etc.) to accomplices who follow the victim when they leave the shopping centre…
Greenside Gems : The Majestic
I had the pleasure of visiting a gem of Greenside today, The Majestic.
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GRA Annual General Meeting to be held on 2 April
The reconstituted Greenside Residents’ Association (GRA) will hold its Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Tuesday, 2 April.
Welcome to Greenside
We are lucky to live in a beautiful leafy suburb, with a vibrant diverse community. There are always challenges to living in an older suburb and a complex growing city. In order to keep our suburb healthy and green and sustainable and a happy place to call our home, residents need to be active citizens…
A short history of Greenside
The suburb of Greenside was developed on land that originally made up one of many large farms in Johannesburg, namely the Braamfontein Farm. In 1886, the farm land was bought by Lourens Geldenhuys for its mining rights. Fortunately for us more contemporary Greenside residents, the area was not viable mining land, and it remained as…
Stronger and safer together
Members of the Greenside Resident’s Association are planning to launch a groundswell security initiative in the form of a block-watch community, pioneered by concerned citizens. The initiative is called Emmarentia Greenside Community Patroller (EGCP) and aims to organise volunteers across these two neighbouring areas, and concentrate vigilance and mobilise them to respond to security incidents.…
Our environment
- Greening
- Roads
- Polyphagous Shothole Borer
Our living space
- Heritage
- Security
- Development and Land uses
Our community
- Community building
- Connecting
- Business liaison