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Brixton bioscope

4/4/2017

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GEYSER CONTROL SYSTEM INSTALLATIONS COMING TO REGION B

3/28/2017

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Drop letters are delivered door to door with regard to installation times and various other information pertaining to the geyser control units. Please give the installers you full co-operation when they call at your premises to perform the installations.

WHAT IS A GEYSER CONTROL SYSTEM?City Power Control Centre are able to continuously measure the demand for electrical power throughout its area of supply. At peak demand times, computer-based load management systems broadcast control signals to receiver control units that are installed at the consumer's premises. These control units are able to interrupt the electricity supply to the geyser, so providing a mechanism to centrally control a substantial portion of the electrical load and reduce the demand for power when necessary, to avoid power failures in your area.  Geyser controls do not need to be installed on solar and gas geysers.
WEEKDAYS and weekends GEYSERS controlling times
On weekdays your geyser will be controlled between 07h00 to 10h00 in the morning, and again between 18h00 to 20h00 in the evening. On Saturdays your geyser will be controller between 09h00 to 12h00 in the morning and between 18h00 to 20h00 in the evening.
Once the geyser control units have been installed customers should not switch off the geyser isolator in the distribution board, as this may affect the operation of the geyser
If customers encounter any hot water problems after City Power has visited their premises or for any other queries, please contact our Customer Call Centre on 086 056 2874 (All hours).
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PARK DAY

3/23/2017

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Our regular community event is Park Day, held in conjunction with the Auckland Park Residents' Association and the Brixton Community Forum on the Second Saturday of every month.

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to raise funds for the Brixton Community Forum events and park maintenance. R35 buys you tea or coffee and slice of delicious cake made by Agnes from Zietsies (her cakes a world famous!) Come and sit under the trees and indulge in one of life's greatest pleasures!Clean up includes picking up litter on the Brixton Steps and weeding in Kingston Frost Park. Roll up your sleeves and help us make Brixton beautiful!

Kids will be entertained at the Club House next to the tennis courts with cupcake decorating and an Easter egg hunt.

Artists can keep busy in the alley near the Water Tower between Barnes and Fulham - bring a small paintbrush and old clothes that you don't mind getting dirty, and get to work with paint kindly donated by Riaan Jacobs and his company, Dream Sets. This will be epic when it's finished! Can't wait! Please bring a hat - it's hot out there!


We will be collecting batteries, printer ink cartridges, energy-saving compact fluorescent light bulbs for recycling at every Park Day. Bring your recycling to the Club House next to the tennis courts.
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A Brixton Fietas Heritage Trail

3/23/2017

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Brixton Walking TourBook

3/23/2017

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Book at mail@joburgheritage.co.za

SATURDAY, 1 APRIL 
In the 1890s Brixton and neighbouring Auckland Park, were home to infamous “slaughter houses” which were “without exception dirty and in bad condition and… a perfect disgrace”. So it must have been a relief when, in 1902, the suburb was surveyed for residential development. Its proximity to both the City and the mines ensured that stands were soon sold and built on, and it developed into a bustling, working class neighbourhood. So it comes as no surprise then that residents were involved in the 1922 strike - in a dramatic episode strikers were driven off the Brixton ridge where their positions were bombarded by artillery and by attacks from the air.

In the 1980s it would be among the first suburbs in the City to throw off apartheid segregation, and today it stands on the cusp on another dramatic change, and is likely to see densification and transformation of its fabric as part of the Corridors of Freedom initiative.
Join us on an exploration of Brixton past and present, its architecture and personalities.

GUIDES : David Gurney and John-John de Castro
PARK : On the street, at the corner of Putney and Wimbledon
TIME : 14h00
DURATION : 3 hours
COST : R90.00 for members and R150.00 for non-members
MAXIMUM No: 50
[e] brixtoncommunity@gmail.com
[fb] Group: Brixton Community (Johannesburg)

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Thank you, Brixtonites!

3/17/2017

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We had such a wonderful turn out for our communitymeeting to plan events for the year. So many creative plans and ideas, and so many people willing to make our hood a vibey and exciting place to be! 

Our first three projects have been launched with great success: our Park Days with the Auckland Park Resident's Association (held on every Second Saturday in the month), cleaning up the Club House, and our Alley Activations have started with some painting and planting in the alley between Barnes and Fulham. So many people to thank - but special thanks to the Brixton Community Forum and volunteers who got their hands dirty!

On Park Day we were so excited to have the police horses and ADT provided a wonderful artist to paint the children's faces. Church@44 kept us going with Bean There Coffee (yum!) and it was a wonderful day to celebrate with our neighbours.

If you'd like to be involved, please let Sophia know on brixtoncommunity@gmail.com. We are still looking for volunteers to help with communitybeautifying projects (painting, planting and the like), for assistance on event days, and for projects like reading to kids at Park Days (held on the Second Saturday of every month). If you can't help, but you can make a contribution towards hiring an otherwise unemployed Brixton resident for the day, please do let us know. We're also keen for donations of any exterior paint (bright colours and white are first prize!)

Next Park Day Hooray! Is on the Second Saturday of next month, 8 April, between 09:00-12:00
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