January 2011
The sprawling 441 ha Fleurhof Extension 2 development south west of Johannesburg will deliver 9 600 residential units by 2015. The Calgro M3 project is destined to provide affordable, sectional title, and BNG housing for residents of the nearby hostels and informal settlement. The Minister of Human Settlements, Tokyo Sexwale handed over five hundred houses to the Thornhill community, in Port Alfred. And ‘South Africa Law Firm of the Year 2010', Bowman Gilfillan has provided 1 111 trees to residents of Alexandra. The 12 km square township surrounded by Sandton, Kelvin and Wendywood has benefitted from the top legal firm's greening initiative.
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Sexwale - no mahala! Minister of Human Settlements, Tokyo Sexwale said: "One day free housing must come to an end," Sexwale talked to Housing in Southern Africa after his briefing with media and financial analysts at the Gautrain Radisson Blu in Sandton. Accidents cost R42m Statistics released by the Federated Employers Mutual Association show that the average construction-related accident costs R14 800. Almost R42 million was paid out for accident claims during 2010, in the Western Cape, with an additional R39 million still outstanding, says Deon Bester, Occupational Health & Safety Manager of the Master Builders Association of the Western Cape. SA City Studies The South African City Studies Conference, on September 7th to 9th 2011 in Cape Town, has called for papers for the conference. The ACC-Cubes initiative hosted the first conference at Wits University during June 2009. Professor Alan Mabin from the Wits School of Architecture and Cubes says, "We are now planning the next full scale City Studies Conference in September 2011. We intend to bring together scholars who wish not only to expose their work to positive critical discussion, but also to engage the work of those working in disciplines other than their own." Land invasion pensioners lose property An elderly couple have abandoned their 75 000m² undeveloped property in Sweet Homes, near Mitchells Plain, having failed to evict 900 illegal squatters who have refused to move, says Steve Hayward, Head of the City of Cape Town's Anti-Land Invasion Unit. Contractors blacklisted Contractors who do shoddy work have been warned that they will be blacklisted with Treasury, said Minister of Public Works, Gwen Mahlangu-Nkabinde.
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