AMANDLA IMALI NOLWAZI
KRAG IS GELD EN GEDAGTIS
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER AND MONEY
SDI South African alliance
Moving from farm to shack: occupation of land. Shelter demand, evictions and inventiveness in
urban areas
Umlazi, Durban
South Africa
Mannenberg, Cape Town
South Africa
Recycling water or leaking roofs
To share or not to share? Contestation over
limited basic services.
Mannenberg, Cape Town
South Africa
Langrug, Franschoek
South Africa
Mobilizing and organizing communities
1 rand a day, keeps the rain away! Women's
savings collective
Mapping the conditions of the settlement:
Exchanges and profiling
Owning our own data: community based
enumerations
Sheffield Road, Cape Town
South Africa
Case examples
Langrug Location map
Langrug
Residential
area
R 45
Mooiwater and
Groendal
Franchhoek
Town Centre
Planning within a partnership: community based master-planning
Age range
0 - 5 yrs
6 - 10 yrs
11 - 15 yrs
16 - 20 yrs
21 - 25 yrs
26 - 30 yrs
31 - 40 yrs
41 - 64 yrs
65+
No data
Total population
%
Total
12.48
7.36
6.48
7.14
14.21
16.88
19.32
9.22
0.46
6.43
510
301
265
292
581
690
790
377
19
263
4088
Langrug level of service
1 toilet for 45 people
1 tap for 72 people
SECTION
NUMBER OF
TOILETS
FUNCTIONAL
NON-FUNCTIONAL
MANDELA
32
30
2
NKANINI
59
53
6
ZWELITSHA
0
0
0
TOTAL
91
83
8
SECTION
NUMBER OF
WATER TAPS
FUNCTIONAL
NON
FUNCTIONAL
MANDELA
15
9
6
NKANINI
41
35
6
ZWELITSHA
1
1
0
TOTALS
57
45
12
Partnership with AAPS: Community based planning
Changing mindsets: Viewing informality from a different lens
Barcelona and Europe, Cape Town
South Africa
Economic value: ‘Average R 40 million gets pumped into the cities economy’
Rondebosch
Who solves what? Conflict, contradictions and accountability in partnerships
Informal settlement upgrading agenda
SDI South African alliance
• Informal settlement network(ISN)
• Federation of Urban Poor (FEDUP+PPM)
• Western Cape Backyarders Network
• Community Organization Resource Center
(CORC)
Government
• National: National Department of
Human settlements
• Province
• City and Municipalities: Cape Town
and Stellenbosch
• African Association for Planning
schools (AAPS)
• University of Cape Town
•Sustainability Institute