Ronald Eglin: Sisulu’s new plan for informal settlements and formal housing a welcome break with the past

By |2020-12-09T17:53:36+00:00December 9th, 2020|News, Organisational, Sustainable Settlements, Upgrading Informal Settlements|

Read the OPINION piece (link below) by Ronald Eglin, Specialist: Sustainable Settlements at Afesis-corplan. https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-12-08-sisulus-new-plan-for-informal-settlements-and-formal-housing-a-welcome-break-with-the-past/

Civil Society Response to the Auditor-General’s 2018/19 Report

By |2020-11-05T12:32:18+00:00November 2nd, 2020|Local Governance, News, Organisational|

More than 35 civil society organisations across South Africa have joined the call for a change and improvement in the way our municipalities are run as highlighted by the Auditor-General report on municipal audit results. We have identified seven low-hanging fruit and game-changing interventions necessary to turn local governance around. This document has been [...]

Sifuna Amanzi (We Need Water)

By |2020-09-11T09:25:24+00:00September 11th, 2020|Local Governance, Organisational|

Sifuna Amanzi (We Need Water) is a social justice water campaign aimed at increasing awareness of the ongoing water shortages as a result of drought and poor water infrastructure in many impoverished and resource-deprived rural communities in the Eastern Cape. The province was declared a disaster area due to drought in 2019 by the [...]

Land Expropriation Without Compensation and Land Speculation

By |2020-01-21T07:51:51+00:00January 20th, 2020|Organisational, Sustainable Settlements|

The public has until end of January 2020 to comment on the “Constitution Eighteenth Amendment Bill"  that makes it explicit that “where land and any improvements thereon are expropriated for the purposes of land reform, the amount of compensation payable may be nil.” As the Constitution stands at the moment, without any amendments, it does [...]

Citizen-based Monitoring of Frontline Service Delivery Revised Toolkit for Freedom House South Africa

By |2020-01-24T08:08:16+00:00November 13th, 2019|Local Governance, News, Organisational|

Afesis-corplan are proud to have revised the toolkit for Freedom House South Africa, titled: Citizen-based Monitoring of Frontline Service Delivery Toolkit. This toolkit was originally developed in 2017 with an aim of offering organised community groups with basic tools to use to organise, mobilise and engage - in a structured and meaningful manner- in local [...]

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