The Human Settlement Department has revealed that the North West government has failed to spend R57 million earmarked for sanitation, despite a dire shortage of toilets in that province. Addressing the portfolio committee on human settlements...
The former Chief Executive Officer of the National Home Builders Registration Council (NHBRC), Sipho Mashinini, has been found guilty of three charges of corruption and financial misconduct and has been removed from his post. This was confirmed in...
Human Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale unveiled a R300 million high-rise housing project in Welkom, Free State province on Wednesday. The project is a partnership between the government and the private sector, in response to the minister’s...
The municipality of eThekwini has received a government award for housing delivery, even though only half the homes it had targeted had been built last year. The award by the Department of Human Settlements also came despite an audit earlier this...
The Gauteng Provincial Government last Wednesday officially delegated some housing and human settlements functions as well as decision-making authority to the three metros in the province. Gauteng MEC for Local Government and Housing Humphrey...
The government has remained upbeat that it will meet its housing delivery commitments amid a soaring demand for houses in the country. A Mid-Term Review report, released by minister in the presidency responsible for Performance Monitoring and...
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...
The 2012/2013 budget speech for the City of Tshwane (CoT), which was delivered today by Executive Mayor, Councillor Kgosientso Ramokgopa, proposed increased tariffs for the city’s 2012/13 medium-term revenue and expenditure framework (MTREF)....
The Master Builders South Africa (MBSA), a national organisation representing the building industry, is none too pleased with Tokyo Sexwale’s proposal for a state construction company. “We are very concerned with the proposition tabled...
