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. What became detrimental in the The DA will therefore be taking a number of steps at a national, local and provincial level that include the following: We will provide continuous feedback on any developments with regard to these actions steps as well as any improvements made to the Thokoza hostels, informal settlement and Eden Park housing development as a result of our visit. One of the main findings is that Johannesburgs informal settlement situation is less dramatic than generally assumed, but also more complex. This study considers the social and institutional domains of sustainability in relation to stormwater management interventions in the context of Johannesburgs informal settlements. This is a list of 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. According to a recent study, over 70 per cent of urban residents live in informal settlements (GoZ 2005). 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. On Monday, we visited the Thokoza informal settlement and section five of Eden Park in the Ekhuruleni municipality in Gauteng . Click here to sign up to receive our free daily headline email newsletter, Joint statement by Athol Trollip and Willem Doman, August 19 2009, Minister failed to fix problems at Cape Town refugee centre - DA. We decided to visit both the hostels and the informal settlement in Thokoza to speak to the residents about their concerns and problems and to see for ourselves what conditions they were living in. Short-term emergency interventions. 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. Marie Huchzermeyer, Aly Karam and Miriam Maina, University of the Witwatersrand. On the one hand, the continuation of Johannesburgs up-market suburban core of northern suburbs into the neighbouring Ekurhuleni Municipality to the east means that no informal settlements established themselves on the City of Johannesburgs eastern boundary. 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. 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. This study has been also undertaken to make some recommendations that This article aims to explore the causes of informal settlements in Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality (EMM). On the excuse that Gauteng had problems with capacity, he disputed this saying that Gauteng was the most endowed province concerning capacity with plenty of List of cities and towns in Gauteng. We decided to visit the Thokoza informal settlement due to the violent service delivery protests that had broken out at the end of July where residents of the hostels and the informal settlement marched to protest about the lack of service delivery in the area. 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 Both instances, effective deal with issues of water and sanitation. (3) The Manager: Informal Settlements must ensure that the names, addresses and other relevant details of all the residents living in an authorised informal settlement contemplated in subsection (1) are registered in the Municipality's Housing Waiting List. As a result, the number of informal settlements drops from 189 to 135. However, this had not happened as these houses were allocated largely to people from Katlehong and Voslroosruis instead. This research focuses on the current informal settlement situation within the municipal boundaries of the City of Johannesburg. 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. 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. It was presented at the South African Informal City Seminar, 15 November 2011. 3 A context for the findings: Broad housing trends 2001 to 2011 in Gauteng 9 4 Number of households living in informal settlements in Gauteng 15 5 Profiling informal settlements in Gauteng 18. backyard an informal/squatter settlement or on a farm. It was named after Elijah Barayi, who was a trade unionist and active in establishing the trade union movement on the mines. The official and political position on informal settlements in Johannesburg is that this form of residence has been mushrooming or ballooning over the past decade, that there are over 180 and more recently 189 such settlements in the city and that they are largely unsuited for in situ upgrading, therefore requiring relocation. 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). 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. [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). In this analysis, the percentage of Johannesburgs households living in informal settlements is currently below 7.5%. According to the World bank, as much as half of South Africas urban population lives in townships and informal settlements, accounting for 38% Congestion in informal settlements, hostels and along the banks of the Jukskei River made living conditions stressful, unhealthy and dangerous. 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). (4) The Manager: Informal Settlements must allocate to each site or 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 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%). It is clear that the Thokoza community is angry and frustrated over the many promises made and broken by the ANC Government. February 2010 . This is why they decided to occupy the houses. Informal settlements have formed an essential part of Johannesburg since its inception, to some extent shaping its development, to a large extent repeatedly displaced by formal development but re-emerging elsewhere. The awful state of informal settlements in South African is often multiplied by constraints of land costs suitable for housing the urban poor and low-income groups (Khan, 2003a). Mr K Sithole (IFP) gave thanks and asked for proof of the 96.4% for invoices achieved because there were contractors who have not been paid by the province since last year. if(typeof __ez_fad_position != 'undefined'){__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-politicsweb_co_za-medrectangle-3-0')};Ekhuruleni Mayor Ntombi Mekgwe - who many of the protestors have demanded step down from her position - responded to these protests by establishing a task team that could be used by the community to raise their concerns and to interact with the municipality. Gauteng was failing on the Title Deeds programme. 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. Between 2006 and 2008, a number of short-term emergency interventions were implemented by the City of Johannesburg. We also found that the lower lying houses are flooded with raw sewerage flowing from open sewerage pipes in the area. indigent who lived below the poverty line in informal settlements in the Khutsong area. Participants from Mamelodi Phase 3 and officials from the City of Tshwane Municipality were purposively sampled. Promoter: Prof HC Schnfeldt . CHAPTER 2 2. Only one informal settlement itself crosses the municipal boundary, this is Chris Hani Extension 4 settlement, in an area spanning Ivory Park and Thembisa. in informal settlements. Despite the fact that this housing development lacked basic services, these squatters still believed that occupying these houses illegally was better than living in shacks. A vast University of Pretoria . by . These toilets are also in a terrible condition, most are blocked up and there is human excrement lying around the toilets. 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. The majority of these 135 settlements were formed pre-2000 and no new informal settlements formed after 2003. The analysis challenges political rhetoric, official data and the Citys intervention programs for informal settlements. 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. 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. 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. IN GAUTENG SOUTH AFRICA . Informal Settlements Below Flood Line: Many of those shacks (+-3000 families) constructed along the banks of the Juskei river are in danger in times of flood (e.g. In this regard, interventions to eradicate informal settlements require extensive research in order to have proposals for future policy interventions. A further large low income housing concentration just outside the City boundary is Olievenoutbosch, directly to the north. 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. 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. 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. 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. The fact that no concrete steps have been taken by government officials and that communities have not seen even a slight effort being made by the ANC government to improve the delivery of basic services in the area means that there is a strong possibility that more violent service delivery protests will break out in the future. 2.2 Definition of informal settlements 6. 1 CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION: SETTING THE SCENE 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 . 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. The following is an extract from a draft chapter titled Informal Settlements for a forthcoming book on spatial change in Johannesburg edited by Phil Harrison, Alison Todes, Graeme Gotz and Chris Wray. PhD CONSUMER SCIENCE . 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. economic opportunities around the urban cities of Gauteng province flocked into Alexandra, dramatically overloading an infrastructure already under strain. With a population estimate of 180,000 to 750,000 people, it is severely overpopulated. The article further establishes a common and fertile ground fo Low density and orderly layouts make these settlements more amiable to in-situ upgrading. Sara Susanna Duvenage . The cities include major metropolitan municipalities such as Johannesburg, Ekurhuleni and Tshwane in Gauteng, Buffalo City and Nelson Mandela Metro in the Eastern Cape, eThekwini in KwaZulu-Natal, Cape Town in the Western Cape and Mangaung in the DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SETTLEMENTS I have the honour of submitting the Annual Report of the Department of Human Settlements for the period 1 April 2018 to 31 March 2019 for tabling in the National Assembly on 30 September 2019. Central to NUSPs definition is that an informal settlement exists where housing has been created in an urban or peri-urban location without official approval. 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. 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. This usually mirrors formal layouts in the surrounding. On the other hand, in three large concentrations, City of Johannesburgs low income housing areas, all with pockets of informal settlement, form part of a much larger agglomeration of such low income development. The Upgrading of Informal Settlements and Hostels: This entails short term interventions in informal settlement, and hostels. informal settlement especially in cities of developing countries with the expanding population due to rural-urban migration and natural birth rate (UN-Habitat, 2005). People as young as 25 years of age (they had clearly not been on the waiting list for long) had been allocated houses and the occupants also alleged some people had been allocated two houses or more. 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]. Eradication of informal settlements in Gauteng through provision of the top structures by 2014. There are 405 registered informal settlements in Gauteng and to date, 76 have been formalized, and 41 eradicated and 10 deferred to North West Province due to the new municipal demarcations. 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 . IN URBANISED INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS . 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 . Our finding is also that the majority the informal settlements in Johannesburg are characterized by low density and an orderliness in their layouts. informal settlements. The informal settlements that were growing were in Gauteng and yet the City and Province were failing to spend money meant for housing. African countries are facing serious situation of informal settlements, about 70 percent of the African population is living in informal settlements (Lupala, 2002). We call, instead, for a more differentiated understanding of the situation, which, in our analysis, may pave the way for actual in situ upgrading. Ekurhuleni metro is estimated to have 137 informal settlement areas, Johannesburg 157 and Tshwane is estimated to have between 108 informal settlement areas (HDA 2013). SIP7 focuses on 12 of the countrys major cities in Gauteng, the Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, the Free State, North West and the Western Cape. Thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree . In 2011, the city increased the list of settlements from 180 to 189 (CoJ 2011a: 3), but there is at least one substantial informal settlement that is not included on the 2011 list, while some of the settlements on the list no longer exist, and several others do not match the definition for informal settlements recommended by national government. 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. He was concerned about the number of increasing informal settlements in Gauteng, especially in Tshwane. 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). Jump to navigation Jump to search. ANNUAL REPORT 2018/19 M Tshangana Director-General Date: 31 March 2019 Parliament for the People: The Thokoza informal settlement. Part 3: the number and size of informal settlements in Gauteng 12 3.1 Estimating the number of households who live in informal settlements 12 3.2 Estimating the number of informal settlements 15 Part 4: profiling informal settlements in Gauteng 17 4.1 Basic living conditions and access to services 17 4.2 Profile of households and families 19 Indeed, the lack of land and housing causes many urban poor including migrants to build their own houses in informal settlements, just to solve the housing Pretoria . Some, however, are on private land. The settlements are beginning to be built in the old tributaries due to the continuing growth of the townships. The study follows a qualitative approach, with two informal settlements in Johannesburg serving as case studies. Lack of sanitation is the major problem in informal settlements. Informal settlements in Johannesburg remain concentrated in an arc along the citys western periphery, from Ivory Park in the north east past Diepsloot in the northwest, down to Orange Farm in the far south. in the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences . 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. Housing and Human Settlement. On the contrary, the settlement has been extended since 2012, by government relocations to Kya Sands, from other nearby informal settlements. This pattern must be understood from a view beyond the City of Johannesburgs boundary line. (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.). early 2000). Human settlement MEC Lebogang Maile briefing the media following Gauteng executive council meeting on the departments progress Photo; Gauteng media team. The village is one of a number of Mega City development projects that the Department of Human Settlements embarked on a few years ago. 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. South Africa, informal settlement upgrading process is acknowledged as an effective means of eradicating informal settlements. 5.1 Access to services 18 5.2 Household characteristics 22 5.3 Children in informal settlements 22 5.4 Migration 23 This calls into question, not only the suitability of the Citys informal settlement intervention program, but also the rationale behind the Citys spatial investment planning over this period, a theme that is carried through several chapters in this book. According to Stats SA, 2,193,96 South African households live in informal settlements 13% of the countrys population (household). The article strongly challenges the view that the cause of informal settlements in EMM and other parts of South Africa is predominantly the apartheid government and agrees with literature which provides evidence that to a larger extent, the present government, not the apartheid government, is one of the dominant causes of informal settlements. 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. Using NUSPs 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 official and political position on informal settlements in Johannesburg is that this form of residence has been mushrooming or ballooning over the past decade, that there are over 180 and more recently 189 such settlements in the city and that they are largely unsuited for in situ upgrading, therefore requiring relocation. This housing development is a prime example of how some people desperate for houses have decided to take the law into their own hands by occupying RDP houses that have not been allocated to them. Orange Farms development continues across the Johannesburg border seamlessly into Evaton, Ivory Park into Thembisa, and Ebumandini (to the west) into Kagiso (see Figure 2). Over the years Itereleng if(typeof __ez_fad_position != 'undefined'){__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-politicsweb_co_za-banner-1-0')};Firstly, the residents of these new houses have no access to water. The two Tshwane Municipalitys response to informal settlements in Mamelodi Phase 3, Gauteng. The City and the Province consider this an obstacle to in situ upgrading. This possibility is further indicated by the large number of police vans standing around the entrance of Thokoza.