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eThekwini Municipality’s Land Audit and Housing List Files

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The Open Democracy Advice Centre recently asked to eThekwini municipality to provide information still outstanding from Abahlali’s request for information in terms of the Promotion of Access to Information Act – i.e. to take a little more seriously the request to tell people what it was considering doing on housing, and its assessment of its tasks completed so far. These are the documents obtained through that request. More information is still required.

Zizodla uR 10bn izindlu?

http://www.durban.gov.za/eThekwini/Services/services_news/ziz

Zizodla uR 10bn izindlu

28 November, 2005

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By Siyabonga Maphumulo

I-Theku lithathe igxathu elinqala ekwakhiweni kwemphakathi ehlangene ngempela kuleli dolobha. UMkhandlu wedolobha usanda kudalula uhlelo lokwakha imizi ebiza kancane endaweni ephakathi kweMount Edgecombe nePhoenix.

Loku kuzosondeza abantu abasebenzayo eduze nezindawo abasebenza kuzo ngaseGateway, kanjalo kubasondeze nezimboni ezisazokwakhiwa enyakatho neTheku. Kuzophinde kusho ukuthi abantu abebehlala kwezinye izindawo sebezosondela endaweni yaseMhlanga ethathwa ikakhulukazi njengeyabamhlophe abango macaphunakusale. Ngaphansi kwesigaba sokuqala sePhoenix East Integrated Housing Development, kuzokwakhiwa cishe imizi ezohlala imindeni engu 20 000

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Government Announces R10bn Housing Project that never was…

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R10bn housing project

28 November, 2005

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By Siyabonga Mamphumulo

eThekwini has taken a bold step towards creating a more integrated city. The city council has unveiled a far reaching plan to build low- to middle income dwellings on a site between Mount Edgecombe and Phoenix. This will bring working class people closer to places of employment near Gateway, as well as to yet-to-be developed commercial and industrial sites in north Durban.

It will also mean that ordinary people will be living a whole lot closer to the affluent, traditionally white enclave of Umhlanga. During the first phase of the Phoenix East Integrated Housing Development, homes will be built for nearly 20 000 families. About R10 billion has been budgeted for the project. The proposed development is in line with national Housing Minister Lindiwe Sisulu's call for integrated neighbourhoods. People with a monthly income of less than R1 500 qualify for free housing valued at R50 000, while those who earn R1 500 or more will be eligible to buy units valued from R80 000 upwards.

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CLARE ESTATE INFORMAL SETTLEMENT RELOCATE TO PARKGATE

http://www.durban.gov.za/eThekwini/Municipality/press/439
CLARE ESTATE INFORMAL SETTLEMENT RELOCATE TO PARKGATE
07 October, 2003

One of the country's biggest slum clearance projects became a reality this weekend when fifty impoverished families were relocated from the Quarry Road West settlement to new serviced houses in Parkgate of Durban.

The impoverished families were from the Clare Estate/Reservoir Hills area which has one of the largest informal settlements in the Durban region. Ward councillor Jayraj Bachu described the relocation as "perhaps the biggest slum clearance project in South Africa that will fundamentally alter the lives of most of our people who live in slums". Bachu said that the "shaky edifices" in which the shack dwellers live "does not constitute adequate housing and as families are relocated to their new homes, their shacks are being demolished".

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