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COVID CITY – Dolly Mdzanga & Sihle Mntuna
Is there a connection between the current economic crisis (due to Covid-19), and the rising land occupation in the areas of Cape Town (Cape Flats)? In the past few months, many lower-income people have been very badly affected by the range of enforced restrictions imposed as a result of ...
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In conversation with Carl Fredrik Sammeli: Co-Founder of Bitprop.
By Josiah Sikundla Carl, originally from Sweden has been involved in a number of different construction projects in Cape Town, including the subsidization of title deeds transfer costs for the residents of Vukuzenzele. People’s Environment Planning (PEP) managed to catch up with Carl, and he shared with PEP the ...
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We won’t fix development until we fix our municipalities
Citizens have been reduced to passive beneficiaries of state assistance which often never arrives By Noah Schermbrucker 30 July 2020 The state “must deliver” and the poor “must wait”. Poor citizens are no longer active participants in their own development, and until this changes we will not be able ...
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Small towns are missing the chance to change apartheid’s geography
With political will, it can be done By Noah Schermbrucker and Olwethu Jack 8 November 2019 Along the tarmac arteries that connect South Africa’s major cities are the small towns. The tin roofs of informal settlements blend into layers of government housing: standard houses that are “copied and pasted” ...
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PEP COLLABORATION WITH AFRICAN CENTRE FOR CITIES
Over the last two years PEP has worked with African Centre for Cities to produce two high quality booklets which illustrate the lived experiences and histories of residents in the Ruo Emoh and Hazeldean housing projects. The research (and subsequent booklet) is based on a carefully designed, community responsible ...
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