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

By |2020-07-29T13:43:30+00:00July 29th, 2020|Managed Land Settlement, News, Sustainable Settlements, Upgrading Informal Settlements|

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 open piece of land near the R72 road outside the East London Airport in what the media dubbed at the time “the biggest attempt at [...]

Afesis-corplan News Bulletin

By |2018-06-07T12:20:11+00:00May 3rd, 2018|News, News Bulletin, Organisational|

Afesis-corplan has introduced a news bulletin that contains news of the day-to-day activities of the organisation. News Bulletin #1: Call for the establishment of an urban land commission News Bulletin #2: Ngqushwa community to march against corruption News Bulletin #3: Ngqushwa municipality receives Glenmore petition News Bulletin #4: Conference raises stakes on land governance News Bulletin [...]

Learning Brief #12: Equitable Access to Land

By |2018-04-13T12:03:11+00:00December 13th, 2017|Learning Briefs, Managed Land Settlement, News, Sustainable Settlements|

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 claim that it is not the constitution that is the problem, but rather weak land reform implementation and elite capture of the land reform process. [...]

Comments on the Communal Land Tenure Bill

By |2017-11-24T11:54:11+00:00November 24th, 2017|Managed Land Settlement, News, Sustainable Settlements|

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 and Land Reform. To see a copy of the LGTN submission click here. “The submission questions the assumption that 'communities' are appropriate vehicles for owning [...]

Mega /catalytic projects

By |2017-08-24T10:34:17+00:00August 24th, 2017|News, Sustainable Settlements|

The national department of Human Settlements needs to be very cautious in how it implements its ‘mega/ catalytic’ housing project programme.   Professor Philip Harrison from the University of Witwatersrand concluded, at a human settlement conference in Cape Town on 16-17 August 2017 organised by Isandla Institute, that “internationally and in South Africa, mega housing projects [...]

Planning4informality

By |2018-01-31T10:15:56+00:00August 23rd, 2017|News, Sustainable Settlements|

“One in five urban South Africans live in undignified conditions.” On 17 August 2017 Isandla Institute launched a planning for informality app that can be used by the public to find out how their metropolitan municipality is responding to informal settlements. The app allows you to see how your metro is performing in relation to a [...]

Learning Brief #11: Creating quality environments – Managed Land Settlement

By |2018-04-13T12:03:15+00:00August 23rd, 2017|Learning Briefs, Managed Land Settlement, Sustainable Settlements|

Neighbourhoods that are developed using the Managed Land Settlement (MLS) approach are better than RDP neighbourhoods. This assertion is based on the argument that MLS environments are more adaptive to their local context and to the needs of their residents. To further expand on this argument, have a look at the latest Learning Brief from [...]

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