Overview
- City officials cut the water supply to Marble Towers to enforce payment of what they say is more than R14 million owed for rates, water and electricity.
- An urgent Johannesburg High Court interdict halted planned demolitions inside the building and paused further cutoffs while a judgment is prepared.
- Mayor Dada Morero led a large multi-agency sweep that included JMPD officers, SAPS, Home Affairs and municipal teams conducting by-law and building compliance checks.
- JMPD warned of heavy delays in the CBD and diverted traffic from Von Wielligh Street between Rahima Moosa and Pritchard Streets, urging use of Troye or Delvers Streets.
- The wider inner-city drive has included tearing down illegal structures on Small Street and immigration checks that resulted in five arrests for fraudulent documents.