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A new World Bank report projects that Sub-Saharan Africa will add 748 million urban residents between 2025 and 2050 and warns that the gains will depend on infrastructure, affordable housing, land management and city financing.
The Radisson Safari Hotel Hoedspruit became Africa's first independently verified net-zero hotel by pairing rooftop solar with a renewable energy supply agreement, but energy experts say upfront cost and night-time reliability still hold back wider adoption across South Africa's hotel sector.
Conservationists, farmers and rural communities in northern Limpopo are fighting a string of Chinese-owned coal mines and factories planned inside the Vhembe Biosphere Reserve, arguing that the projects are being approved piecemeal without proof of a sustainable water supply.
Uganda Railways Corporation has demolished homes, shops and gardens on a 60-metre reserve at Masanda in Kyengera, leaving families who say they were promised compensation four years ago without shelter or income.
High financing and construction costs are pushing Lagos developers to sell completed homes rather than hold them for rental income, even though renting remains the main tenure for most residents, a Fortren & Company report says.
Kenya's Affordable Housing Board says at least 45,000 units will be ready for occupation by the end of 2026, with 13,012 homes already completed and 7,050 occupied as of October.
Plots bought for tens of thousands of shillings in Kaputei, beyond Kitengela in Kajiado County, now underpin homes worth millions, but property experts warn that speculation can outrun genuine demand in Nairobi's satellite towns.
Upscale hotels rising around Nsambya Police Barracks are drawing attention to a condemned 60-acre police estate where each unit houses more than two families and closing the accommodation gap would cost Shs880 billion, roughly the force's entire annual budget.
Moneyweb columnist Keith McLachlan weighs JSE-listed retail Reits against population and finds South Africa, and Gauteng in particular, carrying more shopping-centre space per person than its income level would suggest.