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Tshwane Executive Mayor, Dr Nasiphi Moya, joined Councillor Sarah Mabotsa, the Member of the Mayoral Committee (MMC) responsible for Economic Development and Spatial Planning, in launching the Outdoor Advertising Compliance Ambassadors Team in Sinoville.
The Outdoor Advertising Compliance Ambassadors will work to make Tshwane cleaner by intensifying the enforcement of the City’s by-law relating to outdoor advertising. Portable Outdoor advertising signs includes placards, banners which are often placed on fences and boundary walls, posters affixed on streetlights and traffic signs, real estate agent and auction signs, trailers with advertising signage and other advertising material in public spaces.
“Two additional vehicles, which had been unused for many years, have been allocated to the City’s Built Environment and Enforcement Division to increase the compliance operations of this unit, specifically with respect to the removal of illegal advertising material. The Outdoor Advertising Compliance Ambassadors will work with metro police to address illegal signage across the metro – removing illegal posters and other advertising signage and where necessary impounding non-approved advertising vehicles and trailers” explained Executive Mayor, Dr Nasiphi Moya.
Dr Moya further explained that, “by making use of formerly unused vehicles, we are sweating our assets – and will also be generating more revenue by fining those operators who are engaging in illegal advertising operations. And most importantly, we are responding to our residents and communities who have raised their concerns about the proliferation of illegal advertising for so many years.”
Each year, the City of Tshwane receives numerous complaints from residents regarding illegal signage and unregulated outdoor advertising activities which negatively impact the residential, commercial and inner-city areas of the metro. Illegal advertising signs can present a safety risk to the City and its residents, especially where such signs are placed in areas which distract or obstruct the views of traffic.
“The signs and posters also present a cleanliness and waste collection challenge, so the recovery of costs and penalties imposed against illegal operators are important to ensure a safe, cleaner and functioning city for all our residents” said Cllr Mabotsa.
“Property owners who have erected or allowed someone else to erect signs without the permission of the City of Tshwane are warned that these illegal signs will be removed or the owners will be served with a contravention notice to remedy the situation. Property owners may also incur non-permitted landuse rates, which is three times the normal rates amount” said Mabotsa.
“The two additional vehicles increases the operational ability of the City to address outdoor advertising” explained Mabotsa. “Through enhancing bylaw enforcement and making our city cleaner, we will help with inner-city rejuvenation and economic revitalisation, because residents and investors want a clean, well-run city” said Mabotsa. “Tshwane is intensifying efforts to curb illegal portable and fixed advertising signage so that we reward and attract more companies who want to advertise safely and legally in the city” explained Mabotsa.
Complying with the law benefits advertisers and the residents of Tshwane and the charges for outdoor advertising are detailed in the City’s Outdoor Advertising Tariff Structure for the 2025/26 financial year. For example, estate agents are required to pay a registration fee of R1,350 per year, permitting registered agents to display their signs from 12:00 on Fridays until 12:00 on Mondays. To find out more about outdoor advertising in Tshwane, please email outdooradvertising@tshwane.gov.za or visit https://www.tshwane.gov.za.
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