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The City of Johannesburg held a stakeholder engagement meeting to update residents and business owners on the Bree Street repair project. The City of Johannesburg (CoJ) is making incremental ...
More than a year since a gas explosion tore down Bree Street, now known as Lilian Ngoyi Street, in central Johannesburg, opposition parties are demanding answers as to why the street’s ...
The Bree street, now called Lilian Ngoyi Street rehabilitation project, has hit another snag after the Johannesburg Road Agency (JRA) fired the contractor meant to restore the road to normality.
The City of Johannesburg estimated that R178 million would be required for repairs after the explosion in Bree Street. This was revealed at a media briefing in Braamfontein on August 2.
The exact cause of the explosion which sunk a huge part of the road at Bree Street, Johannesburg CBD and overturned cars and taxis, is not yet known, with investigations ongoing since the incident on ...
Johannesburg Mayor Dada Morero on 3 February 2025 gave an update on repairs to Bree Street, which was destroyed by a gas explosion in 2023. Picture: Alpha Ramushwana/EWN JOHANNESBURG - Only 15% of ...
Johannesburg, Africa’s richest city ... The city expects that repairs to Lillian Ngoyi Street, formerly known as Bree Street, will conclude by the end of the year, it said in a statement ...
City of Johannesburg manager Floyd Brink has commended the work of the first-time responders that attended to the explosion on Lilian Ngoyi/Bree Street on Wednesday afternoon. Brink confirmed that ...
The portion of Lillian Ngoyi Street, previously Bree Street, remains a massive construction site following the explosion that rocked the heart of Johannesburg central business district exactly a year ...
Pictures and videos that have surfaced on social media showed huge cracks and holes in the middle of roads, and cars toppling along Johannesburg's Bree Street. “Buildings are in danger of ...
One person died and 48 were injured in a suspected gas explosion that tore through Johannesburg’s busy Bree (Lilian Ngoyi) Street just after 5pm on Wednesday, according to Gauteng Premier ...