MINUTES FOR THE MEETING OF THE 17th JUNE 2026

MINUTES FOR THE MONTHLY GENERAL MEETING OF

THE NEW KILLARNEY-RIVIERA ASSOCIATION

HELD VIRTUALLY OVER THE INTERNET

ON WEDNESDAY 17 JUNE 2026 at 18H30

PRESENT:   Wayne Ford (Killarney Village); Charles Whyte (Beverley Heights); Floh Thiele (La Camargue); Rafaeel Dockrat (Hillside Village); Gill Butler (Hillside Village); David Kramer (Chartwell); Trish Terry (Gleneagles).

1. WELCOME

• Wayne chaired the meeting. He opened the meeting and welcomed the attendees.

2.  APOLOGIES RECEIVED

Eleanor Huggett (Councillor Ward 73); Kim Robinson (Killarney Hills); Ian Morison (Killarney Park); Lizette Rossouw (Bretton Woods).

3. CONFIRMATION OF MINUTES, AND MATTERS ARISING

• The minutes of the previous meeting have been circulated to all attendees. There were no suggestions for amendments. The minutes were approved.

4.  STATUS OF OUR SUBURB, AND LIST OF ISSUES REQUIRING ACTION

• Pavement repair projects –: Work continues to make the pavements safer for pedestrians, using three men who are employed in Killarney.
• Further repairs have been undertaken by Charles and his team on both sides of 4^th Avenue, and in various places along Newtown Avenue. We still need for CoJ to repair the two serious water leaks in 4^th Avenue alongside Bretton Woods, and a new water leak has now appeared in 4^th Avenue outside Hatherley Hall.
• Work was also started on the pavement of Riviera Road outside Martindale Mews, which appears to be subsiding. We will need to monitor this stretch. We will continue to work on that Riviera Road southern pavement, towards Killarney Avenue.
• The Thabo Mbeki Foundation, which is busy building the Thabo Mbeki Presidential Centre in North Avenue in Riviera, has committed to make their contractors available to assist with pavement repairs, at their expense. Charles has met with them, and they have undertaken to start work soon. We are hoping they will start by repairing the tarred sections outside Hatherley Hall, Killarney Wilds, Gleneagles and Dukes Court, because we struggle to repair large stretches of asphalt pavement without the proper equipment.
• Potholes and excavations –: The JRA have not done any more pothole or street repairs for us since our last meeting. However, they continually promise that more work is scheduled. They

• are still refusing to allow us to fix our roads ourselves. The work done by Egoli Gas in 7^th Street to repair the gas leaks, was never completed, and the excavations are becoming a safety issue.
• We can still fill up dangerous holes with rubble, to make them a bit safer. The hole around the repaired water valve in 3^rd Street, at the corner of 4^th Avenue, is again becoming dangerous as the soil washes away, and we will need to replenish the rubble there. There is also a need to again top up with rubble the sinkhole in 4^th Avenue alongside Bretton Woods, and the pothole in 4^th Avenue near Riviera Road, and the potholes in 2^nd Street near Killarney Avenue.
• Themba Clean-up project –: Themba continues to do valuable work. We welcome the donations made by various people to support this initiative. There is also an intention to hold another community clean-up day on 11 July, at the pavement area around the corner of Joe Slovo Drive and Newtown Avenue, alongside the motorway onramp of the M1N. We have received a quote from RCS security for a skip and six workers. Due to the presence of squatters, we have asked for a JMPD presence, as well as support from Vision Tactical security.
• The pavement rubbish bin at 3^rd Street corner 4^th Avenue has been damaged, seemingly in the process of tipping it over. The local security guards tell us that it is the PikiTup staff who do this – because they don’t want to scoop out the garbage. A number of domestic helpers regularly drop bags of domestic rubbish in this bin on their way home, and this often contains rotting food and soiled nappies, among other things. We keep putting the bin back upright, but they tip it over again. They have now damaged the bin as well, probably by accident.
• We depend on PikiTup to service this bin, but it is the PikiTup staff who are constantly sabotaging it. We have been hiring Themba to clean it weekly, but this is not sustainable. There is no clear solution here, so we have asked the owners (PikiTup’s marketing contractor) to remove the damaged bin completely from this corner. We will need to make a different plan.
• Fence repair along Newtown Avenue –: Some municipal trees on the motorway embankment have been damaging the concrete security fence along the Newtown Avenue northern pavement. We are waiting for JRA to trim their trees, after which the NKRA will repair the fence.
• Community Policing Forum –: Floh is in Cape Town, so George represented us at the May CPF meeting. JMPD has been unresponsive. The SAPS Hillbrow commander is only acting in that position, and seems to lack authority. 
• Floh has managed to make two new contacts at JMPD. These will be followed up.
• Discussions regarding the CPF kiosk proposal continue. Feedback so far indicates that we would need to pay around R30,000 for a caravan/kiosk, and that it would cost us up to R15,000 per month for “stipends” for street patrollers to staff the kiosk. Ideally, we would like to have a uniformed officer in charge, as civilian patrollers have no authority unless acting under the direct supervision of a police officer. This issue is still being discussed with the SAPS and CPF management.
• It was agreed that a visible SAPS-branded caravan would help improve the security situation at that corner, and that civilian patrollers might add value just as observers, with a police vehicle visiting them regularly to check the log book at the kiosk.
• It was suggested to ask SAPS management if we could rather use trained private security guards on the same basis. There was also concern that we might be spending a lot of money on a project that might not add value, and that the taxi rank will hopefully be relocated soon by the new owners of the Killarney Mall.

• NEW ISSUES
• The municipality has fixed the serious water leak in Anerley Road, but they have left a deep hole, which is a hazard to pedestrians – particularly children. Other serious leaks continue at the corner of Riviera Road and Oxford Road, on the Bretton Woods pavement and the adjacent sinkhole in 4^th Avenue, and various other places. There are at least 12 cases which are reported regularly, with very little response from Joburg Water. A lot of water is being lost from these leaks. When people report these issues, please include photos and videos if possible.

The meeting closed at 19h27.

Our next meeting will be held virtually on

WEDNESDAY 15 JULY 2026 AT 18H30

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New Killarney-Riviera Association – www.nkra.org.za

Ward Councillor Eleanor Huggett – eleanorhuggett@gmail.com and 071 785 8068

Service Delivery Reporting Template – https://www.nkra.org.za/issue-reporting-templates/

Link to Community WhatsApp Group – https://www.nkra.org.za/whatsapp-link/