Turning housing delivery on its head
Are we seeing a policy shift emerging from the national Department of Human Settlements? In minister Sisulu’s departmental budget vote speech of 18 May 2017 she states: We are now...
Learning Brief #5: Basic Organising and Active Citizenship
A good active citizen is an informed and organised citizen. Drawing from its work, Afesis-corplan concludes that if a community or group of citizens is not organised, it is far...
Land Access Manual
In 2008 Afesis-corplan with the support of Urban LandMark produced the the Urban Land Access Series. The series outlines the process to be followed to acquire land for low income...
Learning Brief #4 The Missing Middle: A Smallholding Land Subsidy Programme
Specialist in Sustainable Settlements, Ronald Eglin has put together another thought-provoking Learning Brief that suggests that one of the factors limiting the ability of the country to make good on its...
3rd Presidential Local Government Summit 6 -7 April 2017
In an effort to transform municipal spaces for radical social and economic development, Afesis-corplan is represented by our Executive Director, Nontando Ngamlana at the 3rd Presidential Local Government Summit which...
A Guide to Local Government Budget Advocacy in South Africa
New developments on the Accounting For Basic Services (ABS) scene: the team is proud to announce the completion and publication of the Guide to Local Government Budget Advocacy. The guide...
Grounding the National Development Plan
On 23 – 24 March 2017, Sibulele Poswayo and Ronald Eglin attended a two day conference to look at partnerships for implementing the National Development Plan (NDP), organised by Fort...
Call to prioritise land acquisition and development in BCMM IDP
Ronald Eglin attended a Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality (BCMM) IDP consultative forum meeting on 30 March 2017. In this meeting Afesis-corplan called on the BCMM to redirect funding towards land...
Toward Good Local Governance…the role of the active citizenry – Author: Sibulele Poswayo, Programmes Manager
On Monday, 21 March 1960, police opened fire, without order, on a crowd that had gathered at the Sharpeville station to protest pass laws. On that day, 69 unarmed people...
In Memory
Afesis-corplan would like to extend its' condolences to the families and friends of the following former staff members who have passed on in the past few years: Newell Faku...