Ntshavheni takes Love Your Street clean-up to Kliptown, with Morero at her side

Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni takes the Love Your Street service delivery programme to Kliptown in Soweto on Tuesday morning, accompanied by Johannesburg Mayor Dada Morero, senior government officials, NGOs and civil society organisations.

The campaign is a joint initiative of The Presidency and the Government Communication and Information System (GCIS). According to the GCIS, it forms part of government’s efforts to promote community pride, active citizenry, and clean and safe neighbourhoods.

Ahead of Tuesday’s leg, the GCIS said the campaign was launched in the Western Cape earlier this year and was taken to the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality in the past two weeks. It is being rolled out to other provinces, the agency said, to accelerate and strengthen integrated service-delivery interventions.

Those interventions include Gender-Based Violence and Femicide awareness, carried out by transforming neglected, poorly lit and overgrown parks and open spaces identified as GBVF hotspots into safe, clean community spaces. The GCIS said the work also involves educating community members about GBVF reporting mechanisms and available services.

The campaign builds on initiatives such as the Clean Cities and Towns campaign, launched by Deputy President Paul Mashatile in 2025, and the GCIS said it fast-tracks the Presidential 1 billion Trees Planting campaign, which it describes as promoting environmental sustainability, greening, climate resilience and community participation.

This report is drawn from the SAnews (South African Government News Agency) preview of the Kliptown leg, published at https://www.sanews.gov.za/south-africa/love-your-street-campaign-reaches-kliptown-soweto. It is a government summary issued ahead of the event rather than a record of what took place in Kliptown, and no attendance figures, outcomes or statements from residents were carried in it.