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Part of the Simdlangentsha District is in the Transvaal.
Additional background information in terms of the Data Research
Africa project can be found in Ardington, E., 1994. Quantitative
analysis of socio-economic data from five thousand households in
Kwazulu: a secondary analysis of data from an income and
expenditure survey conducted in KwaZulu in 1992 by Data Research
Africa, CSOS Research Report No. 4, Centre for Social and
Development Studies, University of Natal, Durban, 59 p.
12.9 Housing delivery methods in the black urban areas of South Africa
Four main housing delivery systems are found in South Africa (Table L19). To-date, much
of the housing has been provided by the State and the private sector, and involves project
initiated self-help and conventional housing delivery systems. Both the State and the
private sector have prescribed the level of service and infrastructure provision. Note that
the discussion refers to the situation as at 1993.
Table L19: Existing housing delivery systems and sub-systems in South Africa. 1993.
Primary system Sub-system
1. Unaided self-help • Informal (spontaneous) settlements
(User initiated housing, largely falling No de jure land ownership rights. Land
outside the existing regulatory and is acquired through illegal occupation
housing policy framework as well as the and organized invasions, informal
legal system)
secondary markets, chiefs and indunas,
the forced eviction of the de jure land
owner, or through a self-appointed
warlord who controls and allocates the
land. Land acquisition is followed by the
erection of a housing structure which is
incrementally improved. Inhabitants of
informal settlements may engage in
collective actions designed to improve
levels of service and infrastructure
provision
•
Illegal sub-divisions
The de iure land owner illegally
subdivides the property and sells the
land to a willing buyer, or rents out the
land. Occasionally, the land owner takes
responsibility for the supply of water