Welcome to the Ward 117 Website where you can find information on the Ward as well as providing you with useful tools to report and log various problems and issues in the Ward.

• Pine Park
• Pierneef Park
• Victory Park
• Blairgowrie (portion)
• Parkhurst
• Parktown North
• Rosebank
• Parkwood
• Saxonwold
  
  
• Delta Park
• Braamfontein Spruit
• Montgomery Spruit
• Joburg Zoo
• Zoo Lake

I have been a Johannesburg and Parkhurst resident since 1997 and have been involved with the Parkhurst Resident's Association since 2004. My portfolio and special interest in the suburb was the environment portfolio. I graduated from UCT in 2003 with an MA in Environmental & Geographical Science where I majored in Urban Studies and History at undergraduate and epidemiology at post-grad levels.

I came to Joburg from Lusaka where I founded and ran a monthly magazine called the Lusaka Lowdown. I have been working as a researcher for Mutengo Consulting for the past 4 years and have worked on projects as diverse as Volunteerism in the Catholic Church to an Analysis of Child Rights Networks in Sub-Saharan Africa.

I have also researched and written the histories of Parkhurst, Linden and Melville; and used to produce the series of Dogwalk booklets from 2002-2006. I love living in Johannesburg, especially in the village-like atmosphere of the parks area. I am involved with the Parkhurst Recreation Centre, Verity Park User Group and Parkhurst Petanque. I am also the leader of the Johannesburg branch of Slow Food and am passionate about local and seasonal foods in and around Johannesburg.