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Ground-breaking constitutional court judgement and Managed Land Settlement: Connecting the dots

Afesis-corplan June 2017 “Evictions that lead to homelessness are unlawful, even if they are agreed to by all of the residents who stand to be evicted”. These are the findings...

Learning Briefs and Lessons Learned Index

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Parliaments High level Panel on Key Legislation – Land Committee

Afesis-corplan continues to engage with other organisation towards ensuring that  recommendations relating to amendments on the Interim Protection of Informal Land Rights Act (Act 31 of 1996) also recognises the...

Provincial legislature human settlements Chairperson meeting

Afesis-corplan continues to engage government on the Managed Land Settlement concept that it developed (and tested) in the last few years. Key in its latest efforts is a meeting held...

Accounting for Basic Services (ABS): Progress and Update

The Month of May marks a period where most local municipalities finalise their budgets for the forth coming financial year. Through the EU funded Accounting for Basic Services (ABS) project,...

Managed Land Settlement

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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...

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...

Eastern Cape CoGTA SPLUM Policy Submission

To find out more about Spatial Planning and Land Use Management (SPLUM) generally, click here On 21 July 2016 sixteen civil society organisations in the Eastern Cape submitted a petition...