Greenside Roads Upgrade Project 2020
Updates to the Greenside Roads Upgrade Project 2020
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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
EVENT NOTICE : JOBURG DAY – Emmarentia Dam May 4th 2019
Notice of event at Emmarentia Dam on May 4th 2019
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
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