We also wanted to find out whether this task team had been interacting with the community to try and address some of the concerns they had raised during the protests. The two Gauteng was failing on the Title Deeds programme. According to a recent study, over 70 per cent of urban residents live in informal settlements (GoZ 2005). Maile said some people on the waiting list for housing allocation were part of informal settlements that would be relocated to formal houses while informal settlements would be formalised. With the houses in the dried up tributaries is a potential problem when a large storm comes and the tributary starts to fill up with water again or if there is a … THE RESIDENTS OF INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS NEAR RAILWAY LINES: THE CASE OF DUKATHOLE INFORMAL SETTLEMENT ... Table of informal settlements near railway line s or on railway reserves in Gauteng Province APPENDIX D List of informal settlers interviewed at Dukathole informal settlement . We also found that the lower lying houses are flooded with raw sewerage flowing from open sewerage pipes in the area. Between 2006 and 2008, a number of short-term emergency interventions were implemented by the City of Johannesburg. African countries are facing serious situation of informal settlements, about 70 percent of the African population is living in informal settlements (Lupala, 2002). It also appears that the task team set up by Ekhuruleni Mayor Ntombi Mekgwe has not visited the hostels or the informal settlements to listen to the communities concerns and problems and as a result these residents are still angry and frustrated over the lack of basic services in the area. This research shows that growth in informal settlements is mostly punctual (restricted to specific areas) and spatially follows the strongest trends in formal up-market residential expansion with its domestic employment demands. Only one informal settlement itself crosses the municipal boundary, this is Chris Hani Extension 4 settlement, in an area spanning Ivory Park and Thembisa. From a municipal perspective, Gauteng (81.8%) and Free State (80%) had the biggest proportion of municipalities where more than 5% of the dwellings consist of backyard informal dwellings. The article further establishes a common and fertile ground fo… Our councilors will raise a number of issues with the mayor on what we found during our visit; DA public representatives at a national, provincial and local level will meet on a regular basis to come up with concrete proposals and action steps to improve service delivery in the Thokoza area and will approach the relevant government authority with these proposals. 5.1 Access to services 18 5.2 Household characteristics 22 5.3 Children in informal settlements 22 5.4 Migration 23 As a result, the number of informal settlements drops from 189 to 135. informal settlements whose boundary remains constant, however within the boundary new dwellings have been erected, especially toward the south part of the settlement reducing the number of roads and access to that part of the settlement. The extent of this community's desperation became even more apparent to us after we walked around the houses and saw what conditions these people were prepared to live in. by . JOINT STATEMENT BY ATHOL TROLLIP MP AND WILLEM DOMAN MP , DA PARLIAMENTARY LEADER AND DA SHADOW MINISTER OF COOPERATIVE GOVERENANCE AND TRADITIONAL AFFAIRS, AUGUST 19 2009, Parliament for the People: The Thokoza informal settlement. What follows is a short summary of the shocking conditions we saw and the people we met (the webpage provides a far more detailed description, and the DA Media Centre contains a full set of high resolution photographs, which are free for publication). It compares the informal settlement data-base of the City of Johannesburg with informal settlements as per the definition adopted by the National Upgrading Support Program (NUSP) (attributed to the Upgrading of Informal Settlements Programme UISP). February 2010 . On the other hand, in three large concentrations, City of Johannesburg’s low income housing areas, all with pockets of informal settlement, form part of a much larger agglomeration of such low income development. Congestion in informal settlements, hostels and along the banks of the Jukskei River made living conditions stressful, unhealthy and dangerous. Using NUSP’s definition of informal settlement, which technically excludes municipal transit areas and formal housing developments, we separated actual informal settlements from other inadequate forms of residence which City of Johannesburg includes in its informal settlement data-base (see Figure 1). The research raises concern less with informal settlement growth than with large concentrations of informal settlement, often dating back to the transition from apartheid to ANC-led government, that have seen little if any improvement over the past decade. Key words: informal settlement, urbanization, land, environment and poverty SUMMARY Despite having a long history of physical planning, Zanzibar has been experiencing increasing problems associated with the informal settlements (IS). This research focuses on the current informal settlement situation within the municipal boundaries of the City of Johannesburg. The analysis challenges political rhetoric, official data and the City’s intervention programs for informal settlements. In this regard, interventions to eradicate informal settlements require extensive research in order to have proposals for future policy interventions. He was concerned about the number of increasing informal settlements in Gauteng, especially in Tshwane. We spoke to a number of people from this community, who told us that when the houses were being built in this area the ANC Government promised them that the houses would be allocated to people living in the greater Alberton area. Powered by AA Media and The Architects Collective of South Africa, Download PDF of this Paper | A4 | 2 Pages | 129 KB, Kya Sands Informal Settlement: Vulnerability and Resilience ›, WEBSITE BUILT & HOSTED BY THE ARCHITECT AFRICA NETWORK, The Architects Collective of South Africa. It was named after Elijah Barayi, who was a trade unionist and active in establishing the trade union movement on the mines. We have visited Thokoza and spoken directly to the people living there and we now believe that immediate action needs to be taken in order to prevent future service delivery protests and violence breaking out, so that the living conditions of Thokoza residents are improved and so that the people living in Eden Park who have applied for housing are given preference when houses in this area are allocated. if(typeof __ez_fad_position != 'undefined'){__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-politicsweb_co_za-medrectangle-4-0')};The Mandala and S.Soji Hostels [Photo Gallery], The Thokoza Informal Settlement [Photo Gallery], Section Five of Eden Park [Photo Gallery]. These toilets are also in a terrible condition, most are blocked up and there is human excrement lying around the toilets. The study follows a qualitative approach, with two informal settlements in Johannesburg serving as case studies. The Habitat III discussions can help provide best practices with regard to urban management and planning for a more inclusive economy and sustainable human settlements in South Africa, the continent and the developing world, David Makhura, the premier of Gauteng province, said during the opening ceremony of the informal settlements meeting in April. This article aims to explore the causes of informal settlements in Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality (EMM). The majority of these 135 settlements were formed pre-2000 and no new informal settlements formed after 2003. Pretoria . This possibility is further indicated by the large number of police vans standing around the entrance of Thokoza. The settlements are beginning to be built in the old tributaries due to the continuing growth of the townships. It showed us how desperate the people in these areas are for the slightest improvement to their lives even if it resulted in them breaking the law. We call, instead, for a more differentiated understanding of the situation, which, in our analysis, may pave the way for actual in situ upgrading. Sara Susanna Duvenage . South Africa, informal settlement upgrading process is acknowledged as an effective means of eradicating informal settlements. This pattern must be understood from a view beyond the City of Johannesburg’s boundary line. if(typeof __ez_fad_position != 'undefined'){__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-politicsweb_co_za-box-3-0')};On Monday, we visited the Thokoza informal settlement and section five of Eden Park in the Ekhuruleni municipality in Gauteng . Lastly, we also visited section five in Eden Park to speak to members of a community who had occupied RDP houses that had not been allocated to them. Participants from Mamelodi Phase 3 and officials from the City of Tshwane Municipality were purposively sampled. On the contrary, the settlement has been extended since 2012, by government relocations to Kya Sands, from other nearby informal settlements. Some, however, are on private land. A vast The informal settlements that were growing were in Gauteng and yet the City and Province were failing to spend money meant for housing. Figure 2: Total number of informal households in Gauteng and South Arica The informal households are predominantly located in the three metros – 87% of households living in informal settlements are found in the 3 metros. According to Stats SA, 2,193,96 South African households live in informal settlements – 13% of the country’s population (household). The township of Alexandra (Figure 15), located outside of Johannesburg, South Africa, is a prime example of an informal settlement that suffers from issues caused by stormwater runoff and flooding. Parliament for the People: The Thokoza informal settlement. There are no stand pipes installed or water pipes attached to the outside basins or to the toilets that have been built outside the houses. THEMBELIHLE informal settlement in Lenasia is "definitely" on dolomite ground and listed among more than hundred other similar areas prone to developing sinkholes across Gauteng. Jump to navigation Jump to search. It is clear that the Thokoza community is angry and frustrated over the many promises made and broken by the ANC Government. Relocation of all those below appropriate flood lines (formerly for a 50-year return storm but recently increased by Government to a 100-year return storm) would appear to be unavoidable. backyard – an informal/squatter settlement – or on a farm. Lack of sanitation is the major problem in informal settlements. The biggest declines in the percentage of the urban population living in informal settlements during the reference period were found in Limpopo (-75.5%), Mpumalanga (-63%) and Free State (-44%). A number of people accompanied us on our trip including DA MPL Neil Campbell, DA councillors Eddie Taylor, Lefu Hanong, William Jarvis, Estelle Visser, Maureen Ansett and Bruna Haiple, DA LEAD Co-ordinator Clifford Mohau, DA Com Jaco Terblanche, and Esther Mthembu and Aaron Letele who are activists from the area. It is clear from our visit that no concrete steps have been taken by the ANC government in Thokoza to deal with the concerns raised by protestors during the recent service delivery protests. Sanitation 2.1Introduction Sanitation generally refers to the provision of facilities and services for the safe disposal of human urine and faeces.It is the most important in any kind of settlement. What follows below is an account of the shocking conditions we found at the hostels and the informal settlement in Thokoza as well as the housing development in Eden Park . in the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences . economic opportunities around the urban cities of Gauteng province flocked into Alexandra, dramatically overloading an infrastructure already under strain. [Photo 1][Photo 2][Photo 3][Photo 4][Photo 5], (The Parliament for the People website will also have some of the stories we heard when speaking to the Eden Park community). (We have loaded a more detailed report as well as a number of photos of the things we saw and the people we met on our Parliament for People webpage including the action steps we will now be taking in Parliament in order to address the dire circumstances that currently exist in this area.). List of cities and towns in Gauteng. Gauteng Housing Rental Tribunal Operations; Housing Waiting List and Subsidies (English) National Home Builders Regulator; ... We also provide layout plans for informal settlements and identify land that can be developed for the relocation of informal settlements. DA Shadow Minister Willem Doman and Shadow Deputy Minister Marti Wenger will be posing parliamentary questions to the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Sicelo Shiceka on a range of issues including the audit government will be conducting and the task teams the Minister has sent to service delivery hotspots; DA Shadow Minister Willem Doman and Shadow Deputy Minister Marti Wenger will also request that the Portfolio Committee of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs conduct oversight visits to service delivery hotspots including Thokoza and request a meeting with Minister Shiceka after visiting these areas; DA Shadow Minister Willem Doman and Shadow Deputy Minister Marti Wenger will also be raising what we found on our visit in the debate that will be taking place in the National Assembly on Thursday, 20 August on the state of municipal governance and will call for Parliament to come up with specific solutions to the service delivery problems in Thokoza and Eden Park and the country as a whole; DA MPLs will also be posing questions to a number of Gauteng MECs on particular issues surrounding the Thokoza hostels and informal settlement as well as the housing development and housing allocations in Eden Park ; DA councillors will also request a meeting with Ekhuruleni Mayor Ntombi Mekgwe and the task team that was set up to visit the Thokoza communities.