Informal settlements

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    Enumeration report : Hlazo village informal settlement pocket
    (City of Cape Town, 2017) City of Cape Town
    Hlazo village is an informal settlement located in Gugulethu. The settlement consists of 32 dwellings that are located on two 500sqm properties, namely erven 88 and 57 on 60 Amplankeni Crescent. The current land use designation in the City of Cape Town Municipal Planning By-Law is General Business 4. The surrounding land uses are mostly Single Residential A number of backyard shacks are built on most of the residential properties. The settlement is located 19km south east of the Cape Town CBD. The Western Cape Government Department of Human Settlements appointed the Community Organisation Resource Centre (CORC), through a competitive tender process, to conduct an in-depth enumeration of Hlazo Village, which forms part of the Airport Informal Settlement Precinct consisting of ten (10) informal settlements, namely, Barcelona, Gxagxa, Lusaka, Kanana, Vukuzenzele, Europe, Thabo Mbeki, KTC, Tsunami IDA/TRA, and Hlazo Village. Kosovo was also enumerated as a priority project in the souther corridor. CORC works in partnership with the Federation of the Urban and Rural Poor and the Informal Settlement Network, who mobilised, trained and provided on-going support to Hlazo Village community members to act as enumerators in this study.
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    Informal settlements and human rights in South Africa
    (Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI), 2018) Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI)
    This submission on informal settlements and human rights in South Africa (focused on selected issues) is a joint initiative initiative of members of the Steering Group of the South Africa’s Ratification Campaign of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and its Optional Protocol (the Campaign) in collaboration with the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI), and with input and participation of some individual. n provides background to the Campaign, its work and the non-governmental organisational members (NGOs) that participate in the workings of the Campaign; and provides more information about informal settlements in South Africa. In particular, the submission aims to address questions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8 of the Special Rapporteur’s questionnaire on informal settlements and human rights.