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The Department of Human Settlements (formerly the Department of Housing) is the department under the Ministry of Human Settlements, of the South African government responsible for housing and urban development. Its primary purpose is the implementation of the constitutional mandate that "everyone has the right to have access to adequate housing."
The Minister of Human Settlements is the housing minister in the Cabinet of South Africa. Known as the Minister of Housing until May 2009, [ 2 ] the minister has political responsibility for the Department of Human Settlements .
The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) is the United Nations programme [1] for human settlements and sustainable urban development.It was established in 1977 as an outcome of the first United Nations Conference on Human Settlements and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat I) held in Vancouver, Canada, in 1976.
The Department of Human Settlements is tasked with implementing this mandate. Based on recent data, around 3.6 million South Africans still live in shacks or informal settlements (2013 data), [9] while it is estimated that around 200,000 are homeless or living on the streets (2015 data). [10]
The apartheid system in South Africa was ended through a series of bilateral and multi-party negotiations between 1990 and 1993. The negotiations culminated in the passage of a new interim Constitution in 1993, a precursor to the Constitution of 1996; and in South Africa's first non-racial elections in 1994, won by the African National Congress (ANC) liberation movement.
UN-Habitat Scroll of Honor Award. The UN-Habitat Scroll of Honour Award was created by the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (UNCHS) in 1989 to encourage and recognize the countries, governments, organizations, and individuals who have made great contributions to the development of housing. [1]
Cornubia City is a new mixed-use development which broke ground in 2012, north of Durban, South Africa between Phoenix, Ottawa, Mount Edgecombe and uMhlanga.It is bordered to the east by the N2 Freeway, to the west by regional route R-102, and is 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) south of the King Shaka International Airport.
Lebogang Isaac Maile (born 26 December 1979) is a South African politician currently serving as Gauteng's Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Finance and Economic Development. A member of the African National Congress (ANC), he has served in the Gauteng Provincial Legislature since May 2009 and in the Gauteng Executive Council since 2010.