Each month, partners present the work they are doing as part of the JICP’s Social Employment Fund project.
Established in February 2020, Clean City SA is an award-winning community based non-profit company, which advocates for environmental justice. Clean City SA promotes the implementation of the circular economy in South Africa, through waste reduction, re-use, and recycling as the preferred waste management options.
Programme Overview
• The SEF Programme is a major project at Clean City SA.
• At Clean City SA, the SEF Programme is about street sweeping and litter picking.
• Clean City SA manages 15 SEF localities in the inner city of Johannesburg.
• The SEF Programme has enhanced and elevated Clean City SA’s work in Johannesburg and beyond, in terms of our objectives to protect the environment from waste pollution, and to fight hunger in our communities.
Locality name: CCSA1 – Metro Taxi Rank
Work summary: Street sweeping and litter picking
No. of participants: 16
Output (1 Sept 23 – 20 Jan 24): 4,379 bags collected
The locality consists of a busy transport hub on the Newtown side, the Metro Taxi Rank, Home Affairs, to the corner of Rissik and Lillian Ngoyi Streets.
Locality name: CCSA2 – St. Mary’s Cathedral
Work summary: Street sweeping and litter picking
No. of participants: 20
Output (1 Sept 23 – 20 Jan 24): 2,712 bags collected
Other: The locality boasts iconic landmarks such as the St. Mary’s Cathedral on De Villiers Street, Atwell park, and a huge contingent of street trading and mini-bus taxi street parking in the area.
Locality name: CCSA3 – High Court
Work summary: Street sweeping and litter picking
No. of participants: 17
Output (1 Sept 23 – 20 Jan 24): 3,173 bags collected
Other: The locality includes he Johannesburg High Court on Pritchard Street. It has some of the high-density streets such as Lillian Ngoyi, with lots of littering, Illegal dumping spots and taxi routes.
Locality name: CCSA4 – Inner City Core
Work summary: Street sweeping and litter picking
No. of participants: 17
Output (1 Sept 23 – 20 Jan 24): 1,870 bags collected
Other: The locality includes blocks across from the Johannesburg High Court. Most of the streets covered by this locality bordering on Commissioner Street are cleaner, with Eloff and Kruis Streets etc are full of litter.
Locality name: CCSA5 – Joubert Park
Work summary: Street sweeping and litter picking
No. of participants: 25
Output (1 Sept 23 – 20 Jan 24): 2,865 bags collected
Other: The locality boasts iconic landmarks such as Joubert Park, The Johannesburg Art Gallery, a
major transport hub; the MTN Rank. The locality is facing huge density, littering and illegal dumping spots.
Locality name: CCSA6 – Fashion District
Work summary: Street sweeping and litter picking
No. of participants: 22
Output (1 Sept 23 – 20 Jan 24): 3,143 bags collected
Other: The locality includes high-density areas along, Nugget, Prichard and Kerk Streets. It also has a
number of cross-border buses with high littering.
Locality name: CCSA7 – Residential and Textile District
Work summary: Street sweeping and litter picking
No. of participants: 23
Output (1 Sept 23 – 20 Jan 24): 2,841bags collected
Other: The locality includes many streets full of litter and illegal dumping spots, in high-density streets such as Nugget, Troye, Polly, Delvers, and Von Weilligh Streets.
Locality name: CCSA8 – Retail and Residential District
Work summary: Street sweeping and litter picking
No. of participants: 32
Output (1 Sept 23 – 20 Jan 24): 2,330 bags collected
Other: The locality boasts iconic landmarks such as the Hellenic Community of Johannesburg on
Nugget Street. Most parts of this locality in Hillbrow have high levels of littering and illegal dumping spots.
Locality name: CCSA9 – Drill Hall
Work summary: Street sweeping and litter picking
No. of participants: 33
Output (1 Sept 23 – 20 Jan 24): 3,418 bags collected
Other: The locality boasts iconic landmarks such as the Drill Hall. This locality is filled with high levels of
littering and illegal dumping spots and mini-bus taxis, street trading and cross-border bus hubs.
Locality name: CCSA10 – Doornfontein
Work summary: Street sweeping and litter picking
No. of participants: 20
Output (1 Sept 23 – 20 Jan 24): 2,878 bags collected
Other: The locality includes various streets full of littering and illegal dumping spots such as End, Davies, Siemert and Sophie De Bruyn.
Locality name: CCSA11 – Joubert Park 2
Work summary: Street sweeping and litter picking
No. of participants: 23
Output (1 Sept 23 – 20 Jan 24): 265 bags collected
Other: The locality is an extension of the existing Joubert Park locality, to assist with efforts dealing with high density, littering, illegal dumping spots and the transport hubs, bordering on Hancock Street.
Locality name: CCSA12 – Wolmarans
Work summary: Street sweeping and litter picking
No. of participants: 23
Output (1 Sept 23 – 20 Jan 24): 130 bags collected
Other: The locality is the extension of the coverage of the localities within Hillbrow, as an extension covering
Wolmarans Street to the north towards Wanderers Street. It Includes high littering and illegal dumping spots.
Locality name: CCSA13 – Harris
Work summary: Street sweeping and litter picking
No. of participants: 17
Output (1 Sept 23 – 20 Jan 24): 174 bags collected
Other: The locality boasts iconic landmarks such as the Carlton Centre. Situated in the south of Commissioner Street, including Eloff and Von Weilligh Street through to Harries Street, areas full of littering.
Locality name: CCSA14 – Salisbury
Work summary: Street sweeping and litter picking
No. of participants: 20
Output (1 Sept 23 – 20 Jan 24): 224 bags collected
Other: The locality includes the Faraday Taxi Rank, with high levels of littering and illegal dumping spots. It borders on the south of Harries Street to Wemmer Street.
Locality name: CCSA15 – Grahamstown
Work summary: Street sweeping and litter picking
No. of participants: 21
Output (1 Sept 23 – 20 Jan 24): 448 bags collected
Other: The locality consists of various areas with high littering and illegal dumping spots on the south of Commissioner streets, including Von Weilligh, Delvers, Troye, Polly, and borders at School Street.
Star Time Keeper
Noloyiso Papu is a timekeeper for CCSA15 – Grahamstown. She has been a part of the SEF programme since November 2023.
The role of a timekeeper is critical to ensure that the hours worked by SEF participants are verified and recorded on the payment system.
Noloyiso enjoys being a timekeeper because it suits her personality, “I am a punctual person. I also like starting early. We have even started to compete amongst the team, to see who starts first. I like working with this group, it’s quite a mix of ages but everyone gets on well with each other. We have some bad days, but we deal with any issues on the day. No one is allowed to go home angry.”
Due to Noloyiso’s excellent work on biometrics, she was selected to present at the JICP timekeeper training.
Training
- CCSA provides basic litter picking and street sweeping training during the onboarding of all the participants.
- In Round 1, 190 CCSA SEF participants attended the Waste Management Training conducted by Pikitup.
Participant Experience
- Participants are issued with the tools of trade for their works such as refuse bags, rakes, brooms, gloves, masks and reflector vests, and in Round 1 they were issued with contisuits. This enables the participants to do their work properly and safely.
- The monthly income received by participants has lives, enabling participants to pay expenses such as rent, food, children’s school fees, data etc.
- SEF has enabled the participants to get used to teamwork, and how it makes a difference in the outcome of their work in each locality.
- The participants also work alongside other organisations such as Pikitup, USM and EPWP, and they are able to distribute street sweeping and litter-picking efforts amongst the various organizations that operate within various localities.
- In Round 1, participants joined events with other organisations such the Joburg Mega
Clean-up which was organised by the Gauteng Department of Agriculture and Rural Development and Agriculture, clean-ups organized by Pikitup, and clean-ups organised by the Department of Environment and Infrastructure of the City of Johannesburg.
Challenges - Participants work in other areas where there are illegal dumping sites, leaking water across the streets and pavements, blocked stormwater drainage systems, sewerage spills and overflowing bins.
Community Benefit
- The participants have received positive feedback about their great work in improving the cleanliness of the streets and open spaces in the city. Feedback has been received from small business owners, security guards, councillors and ordinary residents.
- Mr. Dan Salem is a business owner selling computers and cell phones at the Metro Taxi rank and has operated his business in the same area for over 15 years. Mr. Salem expressed his gratitude for the street sweeping the SEF team has conducted over the months in their area. He indicated that the area is now clean and looks like the northern suburbs of Johannesburg.
- Mr. Monwabisi Khumalo, visits the barber that operates at the Metro Taxi rank. Mr. Khumalo indicated that the area around the barbershop is pristine, very clean and pleasant these days, because of the work done by the SEF participants.
Additional CCSA stakeholders involved as a result of the SEF Programme:
- City of Johannesburg CRUM Region F
- Pikitup
- Ward 60 Cllr Sihle Nguse
- Ward 59 Cllr Ian Nonkumbi
- Ward 123 Cllr Masindi Mmbengwa
- Ward 124 Cllr Mongameli Mnyameni
(No financial support from the above stakeholders)
The JICP (through JICSEP) is a Strategic Implementing Partner (SIP) of the Social Employment Fund (SEF) working with 10 partners to create a total of 1358 work opportunities in Johannesburg.
