Pictured: Karien Erasmus, Sustainability manager at GIBB The South African National Development Plan will see R4-trillion invested in infrastructure over the next 15 years and as a result some of the most underdeveloped parts of the country will...
The Public Protector is probing claims of a housing scandal in Pretoria. Almost 85-million rand was reportedly spent on building a hostel project in 2006 but seven years later, the building stands empty.
Lafarge South Africa has announced the repositioning of the international Lafarge Group’s global master brand to reflect the increasing shift to urbanisation taking place throughout the world. The new brand signature ‘Building better cities’...
Pictured: Innovation in the building materials industry is of paramount importance. Concrete is no longer simply concrete, says Lafarge South Africa CEO, Thierry Legrand Urbanisation is one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century. In the...
The first 40m² Concrete Manufacturers Association (CMA) House, which together with seven other houses, was officially launched by the Deputy Minister of Human Settlements, Zou Kota-Fredericks at Sokhulumi Village in Bronkhorstspruit. Other...
At least R5 billion worth of new infrastructure and property projects are on the cards for Mogale City on the West Rand (Gauteng), which is aiming to become one of the top economic growth areas nationally. And the residential property market in the...
Thousands of destitute people living on a Gauteng dump are being left by the provincial government to fend for themselves. This comes as the provincial department of local government and housing are refusing help to the residents on the landfill...
Hundreds of Numsa members in Nelson Mandela Bay are set to benefit from a housing project following the handing over of R43.7 million worth of prime piece of land to its leadership. Eastern Cape Department of Human Settlements MEC Helen...
A pioneering development in Windsor East north of Johannesburg is offering affordable housing with a difference in the form of ‘container living’. The development initially caused a stir in the Windsor East suburb when steel shipping...
