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Angloplat Set To Build 20 000 Houses - 14 November 2008

Anglo Platinum (Angloplat) would build up to 20 000 houses for employees at its mines in the next five to 10 years, the company said yesterday. The plan, estimated to cost R4 billion at current prices, is a response to the mining charter requirement that single-sex hostels be eradicated. Papillon Motswenyane, Angloplat's senior manager of housing, said the sum would be made up of R1.6 billion in state housing subsidies and Angloplat contributions, and R2.4 billion in employee contributions. "Angloplat's intention is to reduce its employees' dependence on company accommodation and promote home ownership," he said. "Angloplat wants to introduce employee assisted housing."
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Nedbank Invests In R2bn Affordable Housing Project - 14 November 2008

Nedbank, in partnership with property developer SafDev Tanganani, will soon build about 12 000 affordable houses worth more than R2 billion in Diepsloot, near Fourways. The housing project will cater for the poorest of the poor including money-linked affordable housing. The housing development, anticipated to be complete by 2014, will be situated south of the William Nicol-Krugersdorp highway (N14) intersection, about 6,5 kilometres north of Fourways.

Council To Take Over Failed Housing Projects - 12 November 2008

The eThekwini Municipality will soon take over six incomplete housing department projects that failed because of the collapse of Section 21 companies contracted to do the work. Many of the houses at the developments are incomplete, in a state of disrepair or simply not up to standard. All of the six projects are near the Inanda area in the north of the municipality. A report presented to the municipality's executive committee yesterday said that the project at Mshayazane (1 000 houses), two projects at Richmond Farm (5 000 houses) and projects at Matamfana (324 houses), Emaplazini (1 178 houses) and Amatikwe (778 houses) were being cancelled by the housing department because of the collapse of community-based Section 21 companies.
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Blacklist Warning For Bad Builders - 13 November 2008

Unscrupulous construction companies involved in public housing projects could be blacklisted for shoddy workmanship by the provincial government. Housing MEC Whitey Jacobs and Premier Lynne Brown are set for a showdown tomorrow with the companies in a bid to force them to comply or face blacklisting and de-registration. The Department of Housing said on Wednesday there were more than 20 People's Housing Projects that had been abandoned mid-way by contractors.
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CSIR Plans Future Housing Project - 11 November 2008

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has launched a programme focused on sustainable housing. “We want to build a large scale demonstrator of sustainable housing, using clean technologies,” reports CSIR president and CEO Dr Sibusiso Sibisi. The programme will involve most of the divisions of the science council. Thus, the CSIR is going to strengthen its work in the field of energy, including concentrated solar energy, and this is also going to be linked to the sustainable housing demonstration project.
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