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Minister of Human Settlements Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane. (Jeffrey Abrahams)

Minister Kubayi calls for climate-resilient building practices

Public and private partnerships need to be embraced to ensure that the building and housing sector deals with the challenges of climate change

Headache: Despite efforts to provide homes, the relentless demand for housing with basic services in the country has not diminished over 30 years. Photo: Cuan Hansen/Getty Images

Department of Human Settlements

They have on the whole served satisfactorily, but the department has also been marred by decades of maladministration and corruption

Minister of Human Settlements Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane. (Jeffrey Abrahams)

Labour Court slams Mmamoloko Kubayi for ‘unlawfully’ firing staffer after being stuck in a lift for an hour

The court ordered that the deputy director of corporate services immediately be reinstated

(Image: SABC)

The R15.3-million Limpopo ‘shack’ tender was earned fraudulently – SIU

The SIU is trying to recover R2.5-million from a housing tender as part of its investigation into corruption during the Covid-19 state of disaster

Duncan Village in the Buffalo City District. (Andy Mkosi)

Ramaphosa’s R2bn Eastern Cape revitalisation project in jeopardy

Duncan Village community members resorted to court action to challenge the ‘arrogant’ government

The human settlements department has been robbed

Human settlements department robbed in alleged corruption cover-up

Equipment and files related to multimillion-rand procurement irregularities were apparently taken

Deputy Ambassador of Cuba in South Africa, Rebeca Hernandez and Lindiwe Sisulu, Minister of Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation sign a document at the introduction of Cuban engineers who will be working on the country’s water system on April 22, 2021 in Pretoria, South Africa. According to media reports, the 24 Cuban engineers will transfer skills and knowledge on water and sanitation. (Photo by Deaan Vivier/Beeld/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Collaboration in the engineering sector is vital for achieving South Africa’s national agenda

Improved private sector coordination would go a long way in rising to the problems South Africa faces

Benefits: The Wagendrift Dam on the Bushmans River, a tributary of the Thukela River. Rehabilitating the Thukela River catchment in KwaZulu-Natal would reduce soil erosion, improve the grasslands and water supply, all of which improves people’s lives. (Heinrich van den Berg/Gallo Africa)

It pays to save the Thukela River catchment

For each rand spent on rehabilitating the river system, the return is at least R1.70 if not more

Lindiwe Sisulu
(2004-09; 2014-18
and 2019-21). (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Sisulu’s multimillion-rand housing ‘corruption’ headache in the Eastern Cape

National treasury and SIU flag gross misconduct in minister’s department with no heads rolling as millions keep disappearing

Idle hands: Sources say former Eastern Cape premiers Noxolo Kiviet and Phumulo Masualle sat on a report
implicating former human settlements head Gaster Sharpley.

Successive EC premiers ‘conceal’ missing R341m for housing

Hundreds of millions meant for much-needed housing development remains unaccounted for

Foul: Pigs root in sludge in Emfuleni municipality. (Photo: Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

‘People the same as pigs’ in the Vaal

The water and sanitation department has taken over the clean-up project while sewage continues to pollute the Vaal River and Emfuleni municipality

Head of the Hawks Godfrey Lebeya during an interview on September 07, 2018 (Photo by Gallo Images/Sunday Times/Alaister Russell)

Hawks eye ANC politicians next

Top cop says more big players will be added to the list of accused as the state prepares to go to court

Edwin Sodi before his testimony at the Zondo commission.

Hawks arrest Free State ‘asbestos project’ players

Businessman Edwin Sodi and senior civil servants are among those arrested over the R200-million theft of state funds

Cape Town Mayor Dan Plato said the city has responded to more than 100 land occupation incidents, in 30 different parts of the metro. Plato said more than 50 000 illegal structures had been removed.

Housing activists want probe into City of Cape Town ‘spying’

The City of Cape Town admits it monitors the social-media pages of housing activists but denies that this is spying, as tensions surrounding land occupations increase

Tapping in: Amatola Water’s Vuyo Zitumane faces a range of charges that include manipulating tenders, illegally appointing service providers and failing to disclose that she is a director of several companies.

Amatola Water boss charged with organising protests

Amatola Water has charged its suspended chief executive, Vuyo Zitumane, for allegedly manipulating procurement processes and orchestrating protests against the board by the South…

Troubles: Mamodupi Mohlala-Mulaudzi, the chief executive of the Estate Agency Affairs Board faced allegations of corruption and nepotism. (Bongiwe Gumede/Foto24/Gallo Images)

More Sisulu appointments queried

The minister’s selection of an interim estate agency board was allegedly unlawful

Building of RDPs is in jeopardy. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

State calls housing agency to order

Funding has been cut over a slew of problems at the body meant to ensure low-cost homes

ANC stalwart Mavuso Msimang. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

‘Minister caused HDA board crisis’

Former chairperson Mavuso Msimang says Nomaindia Mfeketo was warned, but did nothing

(Graphic: John McCann/M&G)

Mfeketo wrestles with ombud services

The human settlements minister suspended the chief ombud over an ‘investment’ with the VBS Mutual Bank

A complainant and defendant in an assault case sleep across each other in the same room

How solving the Eldorado Park housing crisis could keep a family safe

Gauteng human settlements MEC Paul Mashatile says preference for housing will be given to those who applied in 1994.