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Learning Brief #14: From re-blocking to pre-blocking

There is growing interest within government and the country around the concept of re-blocking. Re-blocking is the process whereby communities who have occupied land work with government and others to...

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

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/

Afesis-corplan comments on BCMM SDF

Afesis-corplan submitted comments on the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality’s (BCMM) draft Spatial Development Framework (SDF) which was gazetted on 14 September 2020.  Find a copy of Afesis-corplan’s submission here.  You...

Qhamani Neza Tshazi: Approach to redressing spatial inequity flawed

Click on the link below to read an OPINION piece by Qhamani Tshazi, a Programme Officer for Sustainable Settlements at Afesis-corplan. https://mg.co.za/opinion/2020-08-19-why-a-blanket-approach-to-redressing-spatial-inequity-is-flawed/

#ASIVIKELANE progress report – Informal settlement voices matter

For the past four months since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown, Afesis-corplan has been working with 87 households sharing water and ablution facilities in 35 informal settlements communities...

Ronald Eglin: Unauthorised land occupation in our cities – Why demolishing is not the answer

THE following are edited extracts of an article by Ronald Eglin published in the Daily Dispatch newspaper on 20 February 2018 shortly after members of the public flocked to an...

Afesis-corplan submits comment on national Spatial Development Framework (NSDF)

Afesis-corplan, in its submission to the draft national Spatial Development Framework (NSDF) of South Africa (see copy of submission here), calls for the NSDF to  specifically recognize that informal settlements...

Transformer Volume 20 Number 2 Article: Linking incremental settlement development and job creation

Transformer Article: Linking incremental settlement development and job creation Ronald Eglin A shift from a housing approach that focuses on the provision of an RDP house, to one that focuses...

Expropriation of Land without Compensation – Constitutional Amendments

The public had until the 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...

Land Expropriation Without Compensation and Land Speculation

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...