HEARTBEAT

Nov 2024
Our community inside and out!

Virgin Active 947 Ride Joburg MTB (50/25km) and Kids Races 2024 – 9 – 10 November

This year’s Virgin Active 947 MTB Ride and Kids Race 2024 was yet another resounding success, with residents and staff members taking part enthusiastically. This marked the fourth consecutive year that the event took place exclusively within our parklands, making it a fantastic experience for both the Gauteng cycling community and pro riders. It was also a wonderful opportunity to showcase our estate and extensive parkland. Take a look at some of the images from the event!

Christmas pop-up market and carols concert

Our Christmas pop-up market was a delightful opportunity to browse and purchase exquisite Christmas decorations, artisanal treats, and unique gifts. Combined with the Carols Concert, it was a magical opportunity for our community to convene in our beautiful Central Park at City Centre and share in the joy of the occasion.

Of course, the mood was made even more celebratory by the Springboks’ thrilling win against Wales in their final match of the international rugby season, adding to the festive atmosphere.

Our new hummingbird sculpture, which lights up at night in the Main Piazza at City Centre, symbolises joy, resilience, and love. At this time of year, as we reflect on the spirit of goodwill, it serves as a poignant reminder to embrace kindness, healing, and community.

Steyn City Foundation: Delivering Happiness to Diepsloot for the 13th Consecutive Year

This year’s initiative was nothing short of remarkable, serving as a poignant reminder of the importance of the gifts we deliver to young primary school children. Once again, thanks to the generous support of our sponsors and donors – including Bidvest, which donated stationery to the value of R1 million and Steyn City Properties which donated R2.4 million for backpacks and goodies – we were able to deliver 13,500 school backpacks filled with stationery, sweets, and treats.

We would also like to thank the Steyn City residents who kindly gave their time to help pack the gifts. We are enormously grateful to them, and to our staff members, for their commitment to making this logistically complex event a success.

It was truly moving to see the children enjoy the boerewors rolls and cold drinks. For many, this was a first-time experience, and their smiles tell you everything about the joy this initiative brings to their lives.

Adopt and protect a robot

Excellent news! In the previous two editions of Promenade Post, we discussed in detail our involvement, alongside several private entities in the Fourways region, in an initiative to address the malfunctioning traffic lights along Winnie Mandela Drive and Cedar Road to combat traffic congestion, vandalism of road infrastructure and lawlessness. We are pleased to announce that the Gauteng Department of Roads and Traffic (GDRT) recently finalised and signed the MOUs to put this project in motion, and it is now up and running thanks to the efforts of a Joint Technical Committee, consisting of representatives from the GDRT, other private stakeholders and our Steyn City technical team, who recently convened the rollout of the project.

Last week, Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi and MEC for Roads and Transport Kedibone Diale-Tlabela announced the innovative public-private partnership campaign, Adopt and Protect a Robot, to address traffic signal challenges in the Fourways region. The press announcement took place at Fourways Mall, signalling a collaborative approach to resolving critical infrastructure issues.

Following the launch, MEC Diale-Tlabela visited the Erling Road Interchange outside our Central Lane Gatehouse to acknowledge Steyn City’s invaluable contribution to this initiative.

Pictured below are our CEO, Steven Louw, MEC Kedibone Diale-Tlabela, and Head of the SCMA, Richard Mitchell. A heartfelt thank you to our dedicated task team, who, alongside other proactive community members and private businesses, worked tirelessly to get this over the line with government to ensure delivery of this vital service.

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This is great news for residents who frequently use these key routes and have, understandably, been frustrated by delays. While the robots adopted by Steyn City will be fully powered and secured by the end of this year, it is still likely to take some months for the project to be fully implemented along the entire route.

More good news to share

Steyn City Properties and the Steyn City Management Association has joined a task team alongside other stakeholders and property owners in the region as part of a Voluntary Management Initiative (VMI), to be known as the Fourways Improvement District. This initiative involves property owners and businesses coming together under a Not-for-Profit Company (NPC) to fund specific complementary and supplementary services, in addition to those provided by the local authority, to enhance, improve, secure, and promote the public environment in the area where it has been established, making it a more desirable and attractive community.

This goal is achieved by addressing key urban management concerns, including:

  • Neighbourhood security
  • Cleaning and maintenance of common areas
  • By-law infringements
  • Council service delivery issues (e.g. potholes, streetlights, and infrastructure repair)


We will bring you updates as this important initiative unfolds.

Jul 2024
Steyn City is working hard to make a difference in our surrounding communities.

Better Fourways

We’ve been working hard to ensure that our partnership with Better Fourways creates advantages for everyone involved with the broader Fourways community.

This project has kept our SCMA team busy during the past month, as we lent our support to a number of projects. These included a major clean-up of Winnie Mandela Drive, between Erling Road and Dainfern, which saw us cutting grass and clearing the centre island of litter.

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We have also been working towards bringing to life the traffic light project, mentioned in the previous edition of our newsletter. This initiative sees a number of private entities in the area joining forces to address the challenges of dysfunctional traffic lights. At present, we are waiting for the Gauteng Department Roads and Traffic (GDRT) to finalise a MOU and implementation strategy. This forms part of the Adopt and Protect a Traffic Signal Project introduced by GDRT. In the meantime, we are collaborating with Montecasino and Fourways Mall to add impetus to the project. Winnie Mandela Drive has been identified as a key priority in this initiative, and we are looking forward to smoother traffic flows once the project starts gaining traction.

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Steyn City Foundation

An exciting new initiative introduced by the Steyn City Foundation sees us increase the support offered to our neighbouring community of Diepsloot.

Steyn City Promenade Post: Delivering Happiness

We’re sure you’re familiar with Delivering Happiness to Diepsloot; the annual Christmas project which sees us bringing the festive season spirit to our neighbouring community as we celebrate with gifts and goodies for seven Diepsloot primary schools, touching 13,500 children. (Please note that residents interested in participating can donate funds to help fill the backpacks with toys, books, stationery and sweets. All donations will receive an 18A Tax Certificate. Contact [email protected].)

However, the Steyn City Foundation is now providing more sustainable support all year round with the establishment of a new Grow Zone in one of the existing nurseries originally established on-site to grow trees and shrubs for our parkland. Grow Zones are a project that our sister company, Auto & General, in partnership with the well-established, Food Security Programme (FSP), have adopted to create allotments where Diepsloot community members are trained and enabled to grow food gardens. And they are, indeed, extremely successful.

Our Grow Zone will employ an additional eight to ten staff, and, at fruition, feed an additional 3,000 children in Early Childhood Development Centres in Diepsloot. In the fullness of time, fruit, herbs and vegetables will also be sold to Steyn City residents and eateries, thereby adding to the long-term sustainability of the project as it becomes self-funding. Auto & General currently supports 24 Grow Zones and 42 Early Childhood Development Centres in Diepsloot. 

Similarly, residents who wish to donate to the new Grow Zone will receive an 18A Tax Certificate. For more information, please contact [email protected]

Updates on this project with be shared in forthcoming issues of Promenade Post.

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May 2024
From ensuring clean suburbs to improving infrastructure, Steyn City’s positive impact extends well beyond its gates.

Steyn City supports the Fourways community-at-large

One of Steyn City’s goals is to benefit not only our residents, but those who live beyond our gates, too. That’s why we are always eager to support our adjacent communities – and our collaboration with Better Fourways gives us a chance to do just that.

Better Fourways was launched with an eye to encouraging community members to play an active role in cleaning up and, ultimately, revitalising their suburb. We’re doing our bit by taking part in clean up campaigns around the Fourways area; plus, from April, we have made a monthly contribution to bolster the organisation’s efforts. It’s an honour to be involved in an initiative of this nature, and we can’t wait to see the difference we make.

Through Better Fourways, we are also partnering with Turfnet to tidy up the centre island between the Indaba Hotel and our estate along Winnie Mandela Drive. Turfnet is sponsoring a tractor while our team adds extra support, relieving much of the burden for brushcutters and labourers.

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No more flashing robots

In another exciting move, Steyn City is part of a new collaboration of private entities wishing to put an end to dysfunctional traffic lights. The brainchild of Ward 94 councillor David Foley, the initiative has not yet been finally concluded as David is still awaiting council approval, although all partners have reached an agreement around their roles. By allowing traffic lights along Winnie Mandela Drive, and in time, Cedar Road, to be connected to the uninterrupted power supply of businesses in the vicinity, they’ll be making the area safer for motorists and pedestrians alike, while also putting an end to snarled up traffic jams that take up valuable time and cause significant frustration for those that commute. This has been a major problem during loadshedding, causing significant interruption to the smooth flow of traffic.

K46 nearing completion

We’re also continuing to support the development of infrastructure in the area. Our contribution to the upgrade of key arterial routes has facilitated the final phase extension of the R511 to the N14 with the Rose Interchange, and the final stretch from Diepsloot Mall to the highway, to be significantly progressed. These upgrades will greatly improve connections between Johannesburg, Centurion and Pretoria, in turn boosting our strategic position while making the commute between these key areas far smoother.