Sisulu wants land expropriated to build communal urban areas

Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation Minister Lindiwe Sisulu is advocating for land expropriation to prioritise human settlements, to enable her department to build communal urban areas that will fulfil government’s integrated settlements and economic development policy.

She would like to see the definition of abandoned land – “where the owner of the land had abandoned the land” to include hijacked buildings.In cases where land was owned by the state or SOEs, the department must be given preference to so as to create human settlements and places of employment. “I cannot see that there is any greater public interest than what we represent at human settlements. It should, therefore, be possible for us to be the first to benefit from this legislation.”

Transformation would also target former mining towns such as Thabazimbi in Limpopo, Emalahleni in Mpumalanga and Matlosana in the North West, that would be changed from being “ghost towns”. The process would see the townships such as Khayelitsha in Western Cape, Soweto in Johannesburg, Umlazi in Durban, Seshego in Polokwane, Kanyamzane in Mpumalanga and Mdantsane in East London, among others, transformed from dormitory settlement status to vibrant economic hubs.

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