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After 16 years of planning, the R5bn Leratong City development in Kagiso is opening its first stage on 29 October, anchoring a regional mall, a 3,000-person entertainment precinct, a private hospital and a planned 15,000 homes.
President Cyril Ramaphosa says 460 permanent homes will be completed at Cornubia in KwaZulu-Natal by mid-2027 for families displaced by the 2022 floods, with a further 145 houses under construction in a second phase launched this week.
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.
The South African Human Rights Commission has asked the Western Cape High Court to interdict the transfer of 49 City of Cape Town properties sold at a public auction in February, pending a review of whether the disposals breached housing and public participation duties.
Afrirent Holdings and co-developer Lance Chalwin-Milton now plan to invest about R2.5 billion in a 35-storey mixed-use tower beside the Cape Town International Convention Centre, almost double the R1 billion to R1.3 billion flagged when the site lease was secured in 2024.
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.
More than 100 residential plots have been sold at Bahari Bay, a R3 billion, 489-unit eco-estate at Shelly Beach on KwaZulu-Natal's South Coast, with Phase One now 75% sold.
KwaZulu-Natal's Maphephetheni Phase 3 project has been allocated close to R7 million for 2026/27 as national and provincial ministers hand over units north of Durban.
The Property Practitioners Regulatory Authority says exam and audit fees are becoming unaffordable for some agents and agencies, as it granted 49 exemptions in 2025/26 and resolved 1,411 of 1,756 complaints.