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Upgrading of Informal Settlements Program (UISP)

MTN gets free advertising on satellite dishes in informal settlements

18th September 2019 Tandeka Bafo 0

Data in South Africa is the most expensive in the world and cellphone companies are making super-profits from it, but MTN still uses the plight of informal settlement residents to get free advertising.

‘No plan to provide services’ to Azania Square

7th August 2019 Sinethemba Mbewana 0

While the upgrading of informal settlements programme is government policy to tackle their developmental challenges, the City of Cape Town says that it will not provide services to the new settlement.

Report confirms services in Marikana are temporary

29th July 2019 Mzi Velapi Anathi Mlonyeni Sinethemba Mbewana 0

According to the report, basic services in Marikana are temporary, “anonymous and dehumanising”.

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