Department Of Human Settlements

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…

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…

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…