1. home and garden

DAY 1 Questions(SMS)
1. Sisulu What will social housing fulfill in the housing opportunity target?
2. Sisulu What budget commitment (MTEF) is being made in social
housing/SHRA
3. Minister what happened to the R1b that was supposed to assist
beneficiaries for home ownership as it would redress the mushrooming of
informal settlements in the mining communities. Thanks
4. MEC GP Thank you very much for always being accessible during "Housing
Delivery Protests" addressing concerns of the communities we need leaders
like you. Mr Chelechele from Indigo Kulani
5. Sisulu mv housing is not in the MTSF and will take funding away from the
'normal' subsidy housing, yet you have prioritized it. How is that justified?
6. sisulu will you ever consider allocation of stands to those who need to build
their own houses instead of giving out rdp houses as the only solution
7. Why the Minister of Water and Sanitation is not part of this proceedings???
8. Good speech by Dep Executive Director UN Habitat. ..spot on! Tandeka
Gqada
9. DHS and COGTA! Do you have any new funding model that will take into
account urbanization and required bulk infrastructure?
10.Gordhan: municipal infrastructure is decaying, how do we continue to
rollout new developments, when current is not sufficiently attended to?
11.Sisulu: What are the plans of ensuring that a bulk sanitation grant is created
or housing subsidy factor in the bulk infrastructure development?
12.Minister Sisulu,from the 1.5M houses,how many houses will be build in
rural areas?
13.Minister Sisulu,To achieve the 1.5m houses target,what will you do
differently?
14.Minister CoGTA,what will be your role in supporting the delivery of the
1.5million houses?
15.Ministers,How are you planning to deal with individuals that sell the state
houses to desperate homeless people?
16.Sisulu, how do we regain direction and attract private & public investment
back into the revitalization of CBDs, like Joburb with a 20 year commitment.
17.Sisulu : Land Surveyors are finding that between 10 - 20 % of all houses
built since 1994 have been built accross property boundaries. Potentially a
multi billion rand problem. Aside from the financial aspect, it leads to
tenure insecurity, neighbour disputes and conflict with local municipalities
anddenial of services. How is or will the department address this?
18.Minister. We are grateful of the empowerment of women contractors in
Gp, but are concerned the province late payments that is tarnishing the
empowerment - payment of invoices are on average of 180 days. What are
the payment policies of the DOHS
19.Minister Sisulu,Do we have enough space in urban areas to build these
houses?
20.Sisulu, for govt to make significant dent on HS challenges, we need
leadership stability at the 3 spheres of govt, no change for 8 years minimum
21.Minister,Which specific municipalities will benefit from this 1.5million
houses project?
22.Minister Sisulu,Who are your target beneficiaries?
23.Sisulu. How can you fasttrack the releasing of state land for human
settlements since it has become a nightmare for municipalities
24.Mamabolo, Gauteng has been under performing (number of serviced
stands provided & houses built) for the last 5 years, what is your plan to
change this
25.Sisulu, can you plz clarify the matter / status and way forward of
assignment of HS function to the Metros?
26.Good short speech by the HS Portfolio Committee Chair. She knows what
she's talking about... she's so passionate about service delivery and she's
27.Sidulu - The Country do not have the financial capacity to develop housing
for all the poor. Should consideration not be given to the concept of "sites
and services" with the focus on "structuring services" and the ownership of
landed property, leaving occupants to build their own dwellings over
timents to provide their own housing? Should the focus not move away
from providing "houses"! Many dwellings in older informal settlements is
proof of the originality and capacity of occupa
28.Minister Sisulu,How are you planning to deal with the mushrooming of the
slums
29.Minister Human Settlements is being hampered by poor procurement.
What is it that DHS doing to procure right all the time - right firm for the
right job.
30.Minister Sisulu,how will you deal with the illegal settlers?
31.Sisulu - Though the focus of the Indaba is on Human Settlements, this
should not be considered without considering that 16 million people stay
on Souvelop sustainable human settlement. Do the Department have a
program to resolve same?
32.African Development Trust Land in the previous TBVC states without any
registered land rights. Without registered land rights it is not possible to de
33.Minister Sisulu,do you have support from other departments that are
responsibe for other services that are required,e.g water and
sanitation,CoGTa,mu
34.Sisulu : What programs or services does the department provide to new
homeowners with regards educating owners on what ownership means,
the relevant planning and building laws and maintenance of ones property?
35.Minister - When are we going to change focus in our model and focus on
giving people sites and services instead of building houses?
36.Sisulu - How is it possible that thousands of houses is being built on tribal
land and services being provided without occupants becoming owners of
the houses?
37.Minister,Thanks Minister for supporting women contractors, but when are
we moving towards Women Developers?
38.Sisulu : Municipal kickbacks before awarding housing project is rife in SA.
What is the department doing about this and how is it ensuring public
money is corruption free
39.Minister Sisulu,will the central database of housing beneficiaries replace
the municipal list system in allocating houses?
40.minister, the budget allocation set for the MTSF is not talking to the
projected targets, is there any possibility of additional funding over the
41.Minister Which measures is the dept doing to ensure low energy running
costs for house owners by constructing with adequate building materials?
42.Sisulu, is it possible to revisit the criteria of qualification of beneficiaries for
RDP houses.
43.Sisulu When are the income bands & quantums for the Social Housing
(Rental Housing) programme and that of FLISP (Ownership) going to be
amended given
44.Sisulu Nu Way Housing Developments - we are in the advanced stage of
planning Coega Ridge a Mega City consisting of 40 000 housing units with
support
45.minister, the development chalenges and protests are lead due to social
interaction being lost. Don't you think from National unit be formed that
46.Sisulu Could the Minister influence not only the rapid release of land but
more importantly rationalise and excellerate the myriad of regulations and
47.Sisulu Thank u very much for a solid plan! Do u have any partnership with
Mining Giants for building of houses through thier Social Plans? TC @IKG
48.+Sisulu+Sisulu Can the minister comment on the worrying trend post 2007
of first time homeowners losing their homes when they default without any
kno
49.Hon.Minister what plans do you have in place to transform or change the
existing riot plan, segregation settlement patterns created by the apart
50.Sisulu. Minister could you assist us by instructing the HOD to release
payments as she has stopped all payments and this has a negative impact in
our Company's cash flow. Regards Ruth Jonas
51.Minister, Consulting Engineers South Africa (CESA) would also like to sign
the pledge. Where do we sign?
52.+Sisulu+Sisulu Can the minister comment on the trend post 2007 of first
time homeowners losing their homes to third parties when they default
without
53.Sisulu Minister have you considered using the latest technology for building
of houses to fast track delivering of houses?
54.Mr Dorrestein, what kind of opportunities will the youth core provide for
unemployed University/ Higher learning graduates?
55.Sisulu Nu Way is planning Coegs Ridge a Mega City of 40 000 units in PE. PE
has backlog of 90 000. Why is the Metro not taking ownership of this pr
56.Sisulu+thank minister,i want a clarity on the acreditation on how its work
on municipality.
57.Sisulu any new approach for mortgages? To make them affordable. Thank
you
58.Sisulu. Minister could you assist us by instructing the GP HOD to release
payments as she has stopped all payments and this has a negative impact
i|our Company's cash flow.
59.MInister, you mentioned that NHFC has some funding available to for
funding developments , our concern is Social Housing funding?? SHRA?
60.Sisulu What does government plan to do to encourage non-banking
financial institutions to participate in affordable housing segment and
increase activity / competition in this part of mortgage market with
ultimate goal to make mortgages affordable for more people? Thank you.
61.Minister & CoGTA Minister, do we have strong measures to prequalify
suppliers/service providers during procurement
62.Minister Gordhan: what is the strategy to ensure coordinate achievement
of government objectives: houses delivery vs. job creation vs. climate
change
63.+SISULU+ Minister how do we deal with illegal immigrants and people who
are occupying private land?
64.Minister Sisulu when will the Mortsge Distress Insurance and Rental
Distress Insurance be implemented to avoid evictions 20 years into a
democracy.
65.Dr Kaycyria, could you please elaborate more about 'urbanisation gone
wrong' what can we learn?
66.Sisulu Minister, we are currently having a problem in the Free State where
contractors involved in the bucket eradication have not being paid for more
than two months and activities have virtually come to a halt with potential
community uprisings and threats of destroying the new infrastructure.
67.Sisulu : Land Surveyors are finding that between 10 - 20 % of all houses
built since 1994 have been built accross property boundaries. Potentially a
multi billion rand problem. Aside from the financial aspect, it leads to
tenure insecurity, neighbour disputes and conflict with local municipalities
and denial of services. How is or will the department address this?
68.Sisulu - How is it possible that thousands of houses is being built on tribal
land and services being provided without occupants becoming owners of
the houses?
69.Sisulu : What programs or services does the department provide to new
homeowners with regards educating owners on what ownership means,
the relevant planning and building laws and maintenance of ones property?
70.Sisulu - The Country do not have the financial capacity to develop housing
for all the poor. Should consideration not be given to the concept of "sites
and services" with the focus on "structuring services" and the ownership of
landed property, leaving occupants to build their own dwellings over
timents to provide their own housing?
71.Should the focus not move away from providing "houses"! Many dwellings
in older informal settlements is proof of the originality and capacity of
occupa
72.Sisulu - Though the focus of the Indaba is on Human Settlements, this
should not be considered without considering that 16 million people stay
on South African Development Trust Land in the previous TBVC states
without any registered land rights. Without registered land rights it is not
possible to develop sustainable human settlement. Do the Department
have a program to resolve same?
73.Minister Sisulu when will the Mortsge Distress Insurance and Rental
Distress Insurance be implemented to avoid evictions 20 years into a
democracy.
74.Peter Opperman Baobab Developments
75.Minister,Why is the quantum of building houses differs from provinces to
province?
76.Sisulu, Minister could your department regulate the relationship between
main contractors & sub-contractors. We are tired of working & main
contractors running away with our money
77.Sisulu minister you have not mentioned social housing comprehensively
78.We are requesting the minister to allocate more budget to rental stock.
Additional functions and mandate to Rental Tribunal board for monitoring
and compliance in the Rental sector.
79.Sisulu , Minister please assist Sawic GP 7 co ops that are in Sokhulumi
housing project as we have been stopped working in May by the
department for
80.SISULU - COMMENT: We need to rethink the housing systems and those
that qualify for each of these systems and bring them in line with an
appropriate
81.Venter - the drive for maximum profit must never be as the result of the
exploitation of our people - this the corporate greed remains prevalent in
Chamber of Mines - do you agree that you have absolutely failed our
mineworkers and mining towns?
82.Chamber of Mines - the chamber of mines have absolutely no regard for
our workers, your only priority is maximum profits
83.Chamber of Mines - what role did you play in the slaughtering of 34
protesting mine workers in Marikana?
84.DHS Sisulu Why are my questions to banking association and chamber of
mines been asked?
85.Sisulu I have also sent comments for feedback from the banking association
and chamber of mines that has been ignored
86.From where do you receive stats of protests from - example KZN
87.Minister what is your plan to work with cooperatives (SAHCA) for housing
deliveries & property radical transformation.
88.What is being done about shoddy housing developers continously being
given contracts? Eg: Mpisane in KZN
89.Coetzee well said.... support local business & fight for quality houses. Red
Beret on its way
90.If I earn R3501 per month,can I buy a house.If yes,at what value.
91.Sisulu: Mr Pienaar; is wrong if he is saying a building collasped in Stanger;
but it was Tongaat under Ethekwini Metro.
92.Sisulu: Please consider radical transformation of the attitude of the public
servants in the department of Human Settlements, especially the decision
before you even get off the pordium. Whilst you are assured that things are
moving on the ground, as organ used business we are faced with endless
resimakers that are complacent. With all the good intentions to house the
poorest of the poor, they always find a dozen good reasons why things
can't be don
stance at implementation level.
93.Minister not much is said about Building Insulation Standards as all same
bricks are used throughout the country despite the climate conditions of e
94.Sisulu - there were other questions and comments
95.Minister we as Baobab Development pledge to assist the NHBRC, DHS and
SAWIC as well as the youth corps with training and learnerships from as
early as 2015 at the Sedibeng Technical College. We have support from
Merseta and Numsa
96.Ms Ntlangula How are you assisting families with estate succession issue?
97.ChamberOfMines What have u DONE in Marikana since the slaughtering of
34 mineworkers to ensure decent living conditions?Its been over 2-yrs now
98.Ms Ntlangula - do you offer pro-bono services to indigent communities
99.Banking Ass. when will we see a drastic reduction in the payment period for
home loans?
100.
Banking Ass. How is it that home loan repayment period far exceeds
that for vehicles etc?
101.
Hon. Min. Sisulu. The cost of formal property transfer, using
conveyancers, is a very significant cost as a percentage of affordable
housing values.
102.
BCA : What are you doing to make conveyancing fees cheaper by way
of transfer by endorsement (title registration).
103.
SawicWhat is your pledge or support to DHS
104.
Minister When are you going to announce the 50 catalyst projects
105.
LAND RELEASE & DEBT FINANCING FOR FLISP- the government can
only fast-track the FLISP by ensuring that the policy is amended to include
that: the municipality allow the land availed for the development to be
used as a security limited to the project as "ALL BANKS, including NURCHA"
want their security in order to finance project;
106.
Hon. Min. SisuluA suggestion is that houses with values below the
transfer duty threshold should be transferred using a simplified, cost
effective p
107.
Why is ur dept allowing people to have multiple rdp houses. How r u
controlling this or y is this not controlled.
108.
BASAWhat is to happen to the many Ekurhuleni Homeowners who
missed the Servcon rationalisation initiative
109.
Sisulu why is govt dragging its feet in expropriating land so we can
provide decent and spacious human settlements?
110.
SALGA- Why are there bulks contributions changed for FLISP Units? There needs to be a decision to cancel to the Bulks contribution costs for
the developers, or standardise rates because that's what is pushing the
topstructure prices in KZN
111.
MinisterMinister - do we have a sense of how many houses have not
been completed since 1996 and what is the plan to complete them
112.
Sisulu : Land Surveyors are finding that between 10 - 20 % of all
houses built since 1994 have been built accross property boundaries.
Potentially a multi billion rand problem. Aside from the financial aspect, it
leads to tenure insecurity, neighbour disputes and conflict with local
municipalities and denial of services. How is or will the department address
this?
113.
MEC MamaboloMEC Mamabolo indicated a mega low cost housing
project in the Vaal. Is this not creating a slum and huge pockets of poverty
without a tax base
114.
Minister How much housing has been delivered through FLISP and
how many people have defaulted and sunk deep into debt as a result
115.
Sisulu govt is allowing itself to be held hostage by supposed
'landowners' who refuse to sell or demand exhorbant payment - why aren't
we expropriating?
116.
Minister How many convictions as a result of your partnership with
the SIU
Day 2 Questions (SMS)
1. Mister, As part of moving forwards for the next five years of
implementation. Is it possible to develop some policy guidelines for
Emerging Contractors who operate in the housing industry. As
municipalities we face challenges when it comes to this sector especially in
relation to rates being paid which is not clearly outlines on the guidelines
provided by Dept of Labour , the percentage of work which can be
contracted to them and the requirements for them to work on housing
projects. Delivery of housing units is seriously affected by this sector in our
municipality.
2. Cornubia is in a metro municipality which is also under Level 3 and makes it
easier for the planning and funding of integrated development. However
BNG projects outside metro Municipalities have to go through provincial
DHS depts and find it difficult to integrated the different (PLS,CRU,FLISP,
SH) depts to execute in an integrated model. Please assist in ensuring that
the different depts supports integrated models.
3. Sisulu. How can you fasttrack the releasing of state land for human
settlements since it has become a nightmare for municipalities.
4. All+: my experience as a developer is that the lack of coordination of
different spheres of government is the cause of delays in roll out of projects
5. MMC Mamabolo What is the total Gauteng housing backlog?
6. projects outside metro Municipalities have to go through provincial DHS
depts and find it difficult to integrated the different (PLS,CRU,FLISP, SH)
7. To submit projects Email: [email protected]
8. [email protected]
9. Pillay Can you advise why KZN stopped considering and approving the CRU
applications from the various municipalities
10. Minister Why are all presentations silent on CRU/ Hostel Redevelopment?
11. Minister Why limit social housing to so called Restructuring Zones?
12. Taffy can we obtain a list of projects under evaluation.
13. minister. Why is ur dept allowing people to have multiple rdp houses.
How r u controlling this or y is this not controlled.
14.EC HOD+ well done on great leadership in the EC province HS , your hard
work & effort is improving our province
15. can we have copies of the presentations. Thank you
16. Sisulu, On presentations made by HDA they indicated that approximately
120 applications have been submitted by Province and Municipalities on
catalytic projects, just want to check if there is still an opportunity to
submit application as this message was not communicated to our
municipality.
17. MEC Pillay-commendable presentation and programme indeed. Given
the challenges of mega projects and need to relate to different products,
what is the level of cross subsidization towards the capital development
costs given the current limitations of the State funding model? Also what
are the institutional development and long term management efficiencies
for affordable rental products?
18. Taffy what process do you have to follow in order to submit a project for
evaluation.
19. Pillay congratulations on Cornubia, the scale and detailed planning is an
impressive model from which other provinces can learn.
20. Minister, going back to yesterday call for women to form a collective. Can
we humbly ask the Minister to ringfence funds to support black associa
21. Sisulu Is it possible to get the presentations made on this session?
22. Taffy: Tenure Reform is a National Function with the Department of Rural
Development and Land Reform driving same (being part of the program of
Restitution, Redistribution and Tenure Reform). What is the relationship
and functional implimentation role in respect of informal settlements
between HDA and the Department?
23. Pillay What can be done to deal with non-performing crlls? On who do
you rely on for info of protests from - example KZN