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Joburg Advocacy Group (JAG): April 2012. Joburg Advocacy Group (JAG). Residents Associations and Community Groups]. Thursday, April 5, 2012. Folks, we continue to receive a lot of complaints from residents with long-standing and unresolved billing disputes. Over the past few days, some have even been in tears because the city is demanding that they make arrangements to pay disputed amounts of as much as R80,000 or face cut-offs. So just a reminder about two things:. We need the Presidency to get a real i...

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Joburg Advocacy Group (JAG): July 2015. Joburg Advocacy Group (JAG). Residents Associations and Community Groups]. Monday, July 20, 2015. RESIDENT ALERT: JOBURG BILLING. Please be advised that we have had a number of complaints about grossly inflated municipal bills. For the June 2015 billing cycle (i.e. bills dated the beginning of July). In order to do this, dial Joburg Connect on 011 375 5555 or 0860 JOBURG. Insist on an 0800 reference number. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The Joburg Advocacy Group.

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Joburg Advocacy Group (JAG): August 2011. Joburg Advocacy Group (JAG). Residents Associations and Community Groups]. Friday, August 12, 2011. City of Joburg Growth and Development Strategy (GDS2040). As you know, the City of Joburg has embarked on a nine-week public consultation process related to its Growth and Development Strategy. The theme of the first week is Liveable Cities. Eight other themes will be covered during the next few weeks. Labels: City of Joburg. Growth and Development Strategy. To rea...

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Joburg Advocacy Group (JAG): March 2012. Joburg Advocacy Group (JAG). Residents Associations and Community Groups]. Thursday, March 22, 2012. NEWS FLASH: STATE OF THE CITY ADDRESS. Will be delivering his first State of the City Address. Today at 11:00. If you're on Twitter, follow the hashtag #JSOCA for live updates - or follow our Twitter feed in the sidebar. The address will also be broadcast live at the. In the following venues:. Labels: City of Joburg. State of the City Address. Read it and weep .

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Joburg Advocacy Group (JAG): April 2011. Joburg Advocacy Group (JAG). Residents Associations and Community Groups]. Sunday, April 3, 2011. A Provisional Definition of Direct Democracy. Several commentators have written to ask us whether we could give a definition of our understanding of direct democracy. With that in mind, we've drafted the following provisional definition of direct democrcay as we understand it:. Direct democracy is not an ideology. With a specific focus on effective and accountable loc...

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Joburg Advocacy Group (JAG): October 2011. Joburg Advocacy Group (JAG). Residents Associations and Community Groups]. Saturday, October 15, 2011. Folks, we're taking a break from advocacy work for a while. And will re-assess JAG's viability at the end of the year. For one thing, running the group has become a more-than-full-time occupation and, as we're all volunteers with work and other commitments to meet, we just can't sustain our current level of activity. The state of play. Some of our work. As part...

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Joburg Advocacy Group (JAG): May 2011. Joburg Advocacy Group (JAG). Residents Associations and Community Groups]. Sunday, May 22, 2011. JAG Report on the 2011 Local Government Election. JAG has published a report on the 2011 Local Government Election. Which includes a summary of national results and detailed information for the residents of Joburg. Click here. To access the report. Labels: Campaign for Direct Democracy. Tuesday, May 17, 2011. Here's why we made the decision:. Thirdly, by law, spoilt pape...

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Joburg Advocacy Group (JAG): AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE. Joburg Advocacy Group (JAG). Residents Associations and Community Groups]. Friday, December 23, 2011. Dear supporters, network partners, associates, and friends in the media and civil society,. Over the past three years, the five founding members of the. Joburg Advocacy Group (JAG). Have devoted literally thousands of hours to voluntary advocacy work. As. We're unable to continue to do so,. We'll be operating on a limited,. Basis only from now on. In the...

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Joburg Advocacy Group (JAG): June 2011. Joburg Advocacy Group (JAG). Residents Associations and Community Groups]. Monday, June 6, 2011. What the SABC wouldn't tell you about the Joburg billing crisis. Suffice it to say, we supplied the SABC with twelve cases studies of unresolved complaints from our substantial archives, gave an on-camera interview raising some of the most concerning issues related to the billing crisis, and even set up an interview with one of the complainants. JAG first published a bi...