LIMPOPO PROVINCE: DEPARTMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND HOUSING PROGRESS REPORT ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PILOT PORJECTS FOR THE UPGRADING OF INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS:
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Area Description/ Township name/project description |
Land Ownership details |
Relocation requirements |
Community Participation Process followed |
Number of strands to be constructed |
Number of Houses to be constructed |
Town planning status |
Progress with Municipal services Installation and date of Completion |
Progress With housing Construction and date of completion |
Describe Social and Economic Amenities to Be provided and date of Completion |
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Polokwane Extension 44 (Legae La Batho) Spatial Restructuring and Integration |
Polokwane Municipality |
Ward Committees Project Steering committees |
1000 |
1000 |
Approved Layout plans &GP In Place |
606 serviced sites &394 being serviced |
Planning face |
17 socio economic amenities e.g schools businesses. Clinics parks etc |
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Mookgophong-Phomolong Informal settlement upgrading |
Mookgophong Municipality |
Ward Committees Project steering Committees |
400 |
400 |
Approved Layout Plans & GP In Place |
Only bulk Services provided The contractor Will provide Water and sewer Reticulation |
30 foundations and 50 wall plates. 31 December 2005 |
11 socio economic amenities e.g. Churches, schools, businesses, clinics, parks etc |
PROGRESS REPORT ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PILOT PROJECT FOR THE UPGRADING OF INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS: PAGE TWO: COST INDICATORS
Name of Province :Limpopo Province
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Area Description/Township Name/project description |
Describe Contribution by municipality |
Cost of Social and Economic facilities Per facility |
Cost of emergency Services (If applicable) |
Cost of Residential Land per stand |
Cost of municipal Engineering Services Per stand |
Cost of housing unit/ dwelling |
Total cost of housing project(land services and houses) |
Total cost Per unit |
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Polokwane Extension 44 (Legae La Batho) Spatial Restructuring and Integration |
Provision Of land Engineering Services, Social & Economic Facilities & Emergency services |
R13,000,000.00 |
N/A |
N/A |
R8,000.00 |
R31,929.00 |
R39, 929,000.00 |
R 39,929.00 |
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Mookgophong- Phomolong Informal Settlement upgrading |
Provision of Land, Engineering Services, Social & economic Facilities, & Emergency Services |
R 8, 000,000.00 |
N/A |
N/A |
R8,000.00 |
R31,929.00 |
R15,971,600.00 |
R39,929.00 |
SPECIAL DEVELOPMENT CONDITIONS AND LESSONS LEARNED TO DATE
1.Municipalities should have been appointed as developers to implement the programmes instead of them being facilitators in the identification of development areas and beneficiaries. Funds were also supposed to have been transferred into their dedicated accounts on the basis of approved business plans
2.The programmes should have been implemented on an incremental phased developmental basis to allow the formalisation of areas and surveying of the communities to be finalized within the given timeframe.
3.The status of the land designated for the implementation of the programme should have been established. For instance the land that was initially identified for the programme in Polokwane was affected by the land claims lodged with the provincial Office of the Land Claims Commission hence an alternative area, Ext. 44 was later confirmed.
4. The mushrooming of informal settlements resulted in farmers beginning to provided shacks on rental basis, hence the skyrocketing of shacks. Subsequently in Polokwane the municipality intervened by deploying employees to monitor the area to prevent further expansion of the informal settlement.