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3.5.15.2 Informal settlements
The Informal Settlement Eradication Strategy for KwaZulu-Natal (2011) identifies Ray Nkonyeni Municipality as one of the 15 strategic priority areas for strategies and plans to address informal settlements. It identifies four informal settlements and suggests that approximately 4 483 households reside in these areas. The areas being:
• Bhobhoyi Phase 2 with 1100 households.
• Louisiana with 1000 households.
• Masinenge with 1542 households.
• Mkholombe with 1600 households.
However, the municipality has been very progressive in the eradication of informal settlements. The Municipal strategy predominantly aims at providing new Greenfields housing developments near the current informal settlements.
3.5.15.3 Rural Housing
Rural housing projects are at different stages from construction to planning (see chapter 5). Implementation and completion is dependent upon Human Settlement Grant funding from the Provincial Department of Human Settlements (annually). Rural housing projects are implemented mainly on communal land and are based on functional land tenure rights.
3.5.15.4 Gap Housing
The gap housing market comprises people who typically earn between R3500 and R10 000 per month, which is too little to enable them to participate in the private property market, yet too much to qualify for state assistance. It is difficult to estimate precisely how large the demand for the gap-housing product is, as it fluctuates with interest rate changes and employment levels.
3.5.15.5 Greenfield housing
In addition to the eradication of informal settlements and rural housing projects, the Municipality is also implementing a number of greenfield housing projects. Many these are urban and will contribute significantly towards addressing the housing backlog as it affects both the low income and middle-income communities.
3.5.16 Basic Service Delivery SWOT Analysis
The Service Delivery and Infrastructure Development SWOT analysis are summarised below.
Strengths
Weaknesses
• The coastal strip has good access to basic services
• Infrastructure Grant Expenditure availability to speed up
backlog eradicationq
• Availability of fresh water resources (plans to undertake /
implement regional schemes)
• Good road infrastructure already in place
• Even spread of community facilities (reasonable access
across the district)
• Inadequate maintenance of infrastructure (reservoirs)
• Aged water and sanitation infrastructure
• Outdated Water and Sanitation Masterplan
• Lack of capacity of key treatment plants
• Historic haphazard infrastructure development in rural areas
• Basic services backlog concentration in the rural areas
• Below minimum standards No, Blue, and Green Drop scores
• Poorly organised waste minimisation and lack of integrated
recycling system
• Limited access to public transport
• Outdated Integrated Transport Plan
• Limited telecommunications data for analysis
• Informal settlements
• Illegal Connections
Opportunities
Threats
• Alternative water sources • Alternative energy
• Natural adversities such as droughts and flooding
• Urbanisation and rural population outmigration
• Immigration – the district is the Eastern Cape gateway to
KZN, the arrival of people seeking better opportunities often further burdens the already stretched infrastructure.
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