Over the past year, the City of Cape Town spent more than R80 million on repairing or replacing stolen or vandalised basic services in informal settlements.
“For every R3 that the City spends of its R125 million annual budget for water and sanitation facilities in informal settlements, R2 is spent on repairs and replacements,” says Alderman Clive Justus, Mayoral Committee Member for Utility Services.
The Doornbach community is in the process of preparing itself to do an enumeration. This very large community opposite De Noon is situated on private land which is to be sold to another private owner. The indications are that the people there will have to move. Read the rest of this entry »
The Joe Slovo community has just completed the report on findings of a community wide enumeration survey. After months of intense history making activity all sections of the Joe Slovo community was part of the enumeration which gathered information on numbers of the population, dwellings, toilets, water taps, employed and unemployed people, incomes and income generating activities and a host of other subjects. Read the rest of this entry »
The five informal settlements of VV, TT, UT, RR and WB are located very close to each other and have begun to build a cluster of informal settlements. Instead of each area organizing and fighting for better conditions on its own they have been meeting regularly for months. Read the rest of this entry »
Fedup Manenberg, the Phoenix Foundation and more than 30 other local organisations held a series of community consultation meetings in partnership with the City of Cape Town. After months of planning, the partnership is launching a fully constituted and representative ‘Manenberg Development Forum’ (MDF). Read the rest of this entry »
iKhayalami was recently involved with the Joe Slovo township in Cape Town, where they assist the community reblock their settlement following on from a devastating fire in March 2009 that razed 512 shacks to the ground. With iKhayalami’s support, the community successfuly redesigned teh layout of their area, so that shelters were no longer build adhok, but were ordered in rows, back-to-back, with narrow pathways in between.
Here is a video of what happened.
We are pleased to announce the start of the iKhayalami blog. In keeping with the ethos of Shack Dwellers International, with whom iKhayalami is linked, this blog will seek to bring together the knowledge of poor informal communities across South Africa, to help share their problems, link solutions and document their successes and failures as part of their development process.
This blog will also serve as a portal for iKhayalami to document its work in the informal settlements with government and the private sector.
We hope that you regularly check up on this blog and become an active contributor to it.
About 100 residents of 15 informal settlements within Khayelitsha marched under the banner of Abahlali baseMjondolo to Cape Town mayor Dan Plato’s office on Monday (20th July) to protest poor service delivery. Read the rest of this entry »