What our Executive Director is up to…
Our Executive Director, Nontando is part of a delegation of nine Ford-funded NGO leaders from west and southern Africa who are hosted by the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) as...
Learning Brief #13: Good plans – bad implementation
In development work one often hears the phrase, “we have good plans but bad implementation”. Is the ‘good plans – bad implementation’ statement true? Where is the problem? Is it...
Daily Dispatch article: Give priority to ‘managed land settlement’
In the Daily Dispatch today Afesis-corplan specialist for sustainable settlements Ronald Eglin writes about what government needs to do to avoid land grabs. Read the article Give priority to 'managed...
Learning Brief #12: Equitable Access to Land
Land redistribution is a hot topic in South Africa. Some are saying that the constitution needs to change so as to speed up land reform and land redistribution while others...
Managed Land Settlement Training
Ronald Eglin gave a training presentation to students at the Wits School of Governance course on Human Settlement Policy and Management on 5 December 2017 on “An Introduction to Managed Land...
Afesis-corplan calls for legislative amendments in support of public participation
The Report of the High Level Panel on the Assessment of Key Legislation (HLPKL) and the Acceleration of Fundamental Change, published on 22 November 2017, recommends that: “Parliament should consider...
A new framework law for land reform
The much anticipated Report of the High level Panel on the Assessment of Key Legislation and the Acceleration of Fundamental Change was published on 22 November 2017. The report draws attention...
Comments on the Communal Land Tenure Bill
The emerging Land Governance Transformation Network ( LGTN), of which Afesis-corplan is a member, has made a submission on the Communal Land Tenure Bill (CLTB) to the Department of Rural Development...
Accounting for Basic Services: Holding Local Government Accountable
This guide was developed for the “Accounting for Basic Services" project of the Heinrich Boell Foundation, Afesis-corplan, The Built Environment Support Group, Planact and Isandla Institute. It aims to help...
Eastern Cape Unemployment Crisis
There are 216 000 more people unemployed in the Eastern Cape Now (in the July-September 2017 period) compared to the same period in 2016. These frightening statistics emerged from the StatsSA...