This section provides updates on recent developments impacting the communities in which Planact works.

Court case opposing Cosmo City development fails — Zevenfontein residents stand to benefit

A residents’ association opposed to the planned mixed-use, mixed-income Cosmo City development to take place in northern Johannesburg, took Johannesburg Metro to court on February 23, 2004 in an attempt to stop it. This is the most recent of several attempts by the Jukskei Crocodile Catchment Area Forum to stop the development—the residents’ association has also lodged an administrative appeal with the provincial Department of Agriculture, Conservation, Environment and Land (DACEL) in response to their approval of the project. Read more...

Zandspruit residents on private plots get water allocation

Zandspruit residents, organised into the Joint Committee of the Private Plots, have started to see some benefit from their many efforts to engage the Joburg Council on the need for services in their area. Several thousand people have been living on private land surrounding a government-designated transit camp in the area, and the government has refused to provide even the most basic services of water and sanitation on the grounds that the settlement resides on private land. Read more...

New Steering Committee elected in Vosloorus to drive PHP

In March, 2003, the community of Vosloorus, extension 28, elected new representation for taking the People’s Housing Process forward. The previous 11-member Steering Committee for the project, having successfully completed the first phase of 250 units, stepped down to make way for the new committee, which has been restructured to include a direct link to the area ward committee. Read more...

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