Politician Profile Page
Infrastructure (WCPP)
Current status and finalisation of District Six Land Restitution Housing Project: stakeholder engagement
28 Apr 2021
The Standing Committee on Human Settlement met on a virtual platform for a briefing by the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development (DALRRD), the Western Cape Department of Human Settlements (WCDHS) and the City of Cape Town (CoCT) on the current status and finalisation of the District ...
Infrastructure (WCPP)
Western Cape Appropriation Bill: Vote 8: Human Settlements
17 Mar 2021
Video: Standing Committee on Human Settlements, 17 March 2021, 08:00
The Standing Committee on Human Settlements met on a virtual platform for a briefing by the Western Cape Department of Human Settlements on the Deliberation on Vote 8: Human Settlements in the Schedule to the Western Cape Third Adjustments Appropriation ...
Infrastructure (WCPP)
Emergency housing building materials provided to Bitou Municipality & related matters; Conventional and alternate building methods
3 Mar 2021
Video: Standing Committee on Human Settlements, 3 March 2021, 09:00
The Standing Committee on Human Settlement met on a virtual platform for a briefing by the National Department of Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation, the Bitou Municipality and the Knysna Municipality on the emergency housing building materials provided to the ...
Infrastructure (WCPP)
Department of Human Settlements & Western Cape Rental Housing Tribunal 2019/20 Annual Reports
11 Dec 2020
Video: Committee Meeting
Western Cape Annual Reports 2019/20
In a virtual meeting, the Western Cape Rental Housing Tribunal and Western Cape Department of Human Settlements engaged the Committee on their 2019/20 Annual Reports.
During the first quarter of the financial year, the Tribunal operated with four members with the ...
Infrastructure (WCPP)
Land invasions: City of Cape Town, Western Cape
16 Sep 2020
Video: HUMAN SETTLEMENTS 16/09/2020
The Western Cape Department of Human Settlements spoke about the delays experienced in delivering housing and infrastructure projects due to land invasion and presented the strategies being implemented for the protection of public land from illegal land occupation. The MEC said that the situation during lockdown ...
Infrastructure (WCPP)
Filling of vacancies at Western Cape Rental Housing Tribunal: Department of Human Settlements briefing
3 Jun 2020
The Committee met with the Western Cape Department of Human Settlements to discuss shortlisted candidates for vacancies in the Western Cape Rental Housing Tribunal (WCRHT).
The Committee raised a concern regarding the time when ...
Infrastructure (WCPP)
Western Cape Appropriation Bill: Vote 8 Human Settlements
12 Mar 2020
The Western Cape Department of Human Settlements (DHS) briefed the Committee on the provincial budget allocation as proposed in the Appropriation Bill [B3-2020]. Vote 8 of the Bill’s schedule set out an amount of R2.41bn for the Department. The Minister said that additional adjustments to the appropriations had been granted ...
Infrastructure (WCPP)
Department of Human Settlements & Western Cape Rental Housing Tribunal 2018/2019 Annual Report: Committee Reports
20 Nov 2019
The Draft Committee Report on the Annual Report discussion of the Department of Human Settlements and its entity the Western Cape Rental Housing Tribunal, for the 2018/2019 financial year was adopted without amendment as was the first and second quarterly Committee Reports for the periods April – June 2019 and ...
Infrastructure (WCPP)
Salt River affordable social housing opportunities and best practices in terms of other social housing forums: City of Cape Town briefing
28 Aug 2019
The Standing Committee was briefed by the City of Cape Town on the Salt River affordable social housing opportunities, and also by the Communicare low-income housing and urban development company on the challenges associated with its programmes for the current financial year; the best practices in terms of other social ...
Infrastructure (WCPP)
DHS Quarter 1 performance
14 Aug 2019
The Department of Human Settlement (DoHS) briefed the Committee on its first quarterly report, on innovations that align with provincial policy and on challenges from new programmes from the Department’s strategic plans.
The Department informed Members that targets in the first quarter were not achieved. It explained that this was ...
Infrastructure (WCPP)
Department of Human Settlements briefing on appointment of Rental Housing Tribunal board members
7 Aug 2019
The Department of Human Settlements briefed the Committee on the shortlisting of candidates for members of the Rental Housing Tribunal board. It said the recommendation should be for four members, including the position of chairperson. The Department had scored Mr Lionel Esterhuizen higher than the other candidates for having experience ...
Infrastructure (WCPP)
Department of Human Settlements on various matters
31 Jul 2019
The Western Cape Department of Human Settlements (DHS) briefed the Committee on the composition and function of the Rental Housing Tribunal, and provided details of several Departmental projects that were under way.
The members who served on the Tribunal were appointed on a three-year basis. Its purpose was to bring ...