It is shocking that a post-1994 dispensation, emerging from a colonial-apartheid liberation struggle whose core objective was the return of land, has presided over the increase of informal settlements from 300 to 4000
It is critical that municipalities prioritise the routine maintenance and upgrading of stormwater systems, bridges, roads and essential services
SCORE: E It’s fair to say that Simelane has struggled to come out from under the heavy cloud of corruption allegations against her linked to the VBS Mutual Bank scandal. Earlier this year, the Democratic Alliance also opened a criminal case accusing Simelane of defrauding Eskom of more than R700 000 through inflated billing while […]
The department’s budget is too small to meet the demand for homes
As households increasingly build in bricks and mortar within informal settlements, the face of these communities is changing
South Africa’s news headlines suggest the opposition and the ANC are still struggling to get its act together
Residents march to parliament to insist they be given the title deeds to their homes and that the government reactivate a project to replace the roofs
Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi said that since arriving in the portfolio she had been ‘bombarded with allegations and counter allegations of corruption’
Service delivery is about improving people’s lives, not expedient election promises
Zuma’s mystery illness has given TV viewers time to watch his successor swap ministers and be astonished about the extent of state capture
Youths can learn new skills and earn money at The Shackbuilder training institute, where how to build a shack is on the curriculum
Top executives fired a year after being appointed
Former Mvelaphanda head gets another six months at the helm of the Housing Development Agency
Housing tribunal data shows that tenants are increasingly in distress as landlords come knocking for the unpaid lockdown rent owed to them
The South African Human Rights Commission and housing activists brought — and won — an application to halt lockdown demolitions of what the City of Cape Town said were unoccupied dwellings
Umgeni Water’s board in KwaZulu-Natal was appointed irregularly by her predecessor, the water and sanitation minister claims
A document leaked to journalists says the minister was aware of illegal fundraising for her presidential bid by her own task team … and ‘kept quiet’ about it
The human settlements minister has axed her controversial rapid-response team after corruption charges. Some team members were alleged to be running her 2022 ANC election campaign
Thabani Nyawose will challenge disgraced former Durban mayor Zandile Gumede while 17 other ANC regions also hold elective conferences
The minister has joined a long line of politicians and ministers promising to eradicate bucket toilets and then failing to deliver
She is a hard taskmaster but caring, a stickler for rules and committed to serving the country
Many of the poorest homeowners are still battling to unlock the value of their properties.
No punitive measures are yet in place to regulate people who are selling their RDP houses before occupying them for eight years.
The department of human settlements has criticised five people who were arrested for dumping human waste at Cape Town International Airport.
The Western Cape human settlements department has delivered over 94 000 sites and houses in the last three years, says its provincial minister.
The human settlements department has launched a whistleblower witch-hunt after a damning audit exposing a dodgy R72.6-million IT contract was leaked.