Construction has resumed on the new Turffontein Clinic, marking an important step towards completing a modern healthcare facility that will expand access to primary healthcare services for communities in Johannesburg South.
The Johannesburg Development Agency (JDA), acting as the City of Johannesburg’s implementing agent for the Health Department, is managing the delivery of the Turffontein Clinic project. Following a temporary delay, the JDA engaged the professional team and contractor, formally directing the contractor to return to site and resume construction.
The scope includes roof coverings; carpentry, joinery and ironmongery; floor coverings; plastering, tiling and glazing; painting; plumbing; drainage; and water and fire-reticulation systems. External works will include sewer reticulation, stormwater and subsoil drainage, roadworks, paving, fencing, gates, boundary and screen walls, landscaping, and electrical and mechanical services.
The JDA will progressively instruct the remaining works as active construction advances. These include structural steelwork and specialised elements provided for under the contract or through provisional sums. To support effective project implementation and oversight, the contractor is also required to submit an updated construction programme and procurement schedule.
A modern healthcare facility for Johannesburg South
The two-storey Turffontein Clinic, with a floor area of approximately 1 870 m², is being developed at the corner of De Villiers and Van Hulsteyn streets. Once completed, the modern, accessible facility will serve residents of Turffontein, Rosettenville, Kenilworth and surrounding communities.
Designed to meet a range of community healthcare needs, the clinic will include 18 consulting rooms; a 120-seat waiting area; an emergency and stabilisation unit; mother-and-child services; antenatal care; counselling facilities; an antiretroviral (ARV) and tuberculosis (TB) treatment group room; testing facilities; an isolation room; a central pharmacy; social-work counselling rooms; and ablution facilities.
The facility will be organised into six integrated wings accommodating waiting, antenatal, chronic-care, administrative, acute-care and emergency functions.
JDA CEO Themba Mathibe said the resumption of construction reflects the agency’s commitment, as the City’s implementing agent, to advancing the delivery of infrastructure that directly benefits communities.
“This brings renewed momentum to a project that will make a meaningful contribution to healthcare access in Johannesburg South. As the City’s implementing agent, the JDA is focused on using the available budget effectively, coordinating the project team and advancing priority components of the facility while ensuring that all work meets the required standards. Once completed, the Turffontein Clinic will provide residents with a modern healthcare environment designed around their needs.”
The Turffontein Clinic forms part of Johannesburg’s broader Health Infrastructure Upgrade Programme, through which the JDA implements infrastructure projects that improve health facilities and support the delivery of quality primary healthcare to residents.
29/09/2026
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