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eThekwini Municipality's planned R980 million Durban amusement park has secured development funding approval from an unnamed development finance institution and is targeting construction after the first quarter of 2027.
Civil engineering work has started on an approved Milnerton development of 377 flats, nine group houses and 16 single-residential erven on land residents say was earmarked for schools.
Redefine Properties has put R106 million into a 7.014 MWp rooftop solar plant at Brackengate that wheels power across Cape Town’s municipal grid to Kenilworth Centre, Blue Route Mall and the Towers office precinct.
The City of Cape Town is setting up a Strategic Development Applications Hub at the Table Bay district planning office to handle large, complex projects separately from routine land use and building plan submissions.
Cape Town says it has received no national subsidy payments for its affordable-housing projects since 2021, while the national Department of Human Settlements accuses the city of misrepresenting the facts and failing to prioritise well-located housing.
Durban-based Shree Property Holdings has acquired the former Plascon and Beacon chocolate factories on South Coast Road and will invest about R1.6 billion converting them into roughly 80,000 square metres of logistics warehousing.
Public Works Minister Dean Macpherson and KwaZulu-Natal MEC Martin Meyer say they will urgently challenge a court interdict obtained by Ray Nkonyeni Municipality that stopped the handover of leases for six coastal properties.
South Africa’s first overhaul of its eviction framework in more than 20 years conflates criminal land invasion with ordinary lease disputes, and its joinder rules risk shifting municipal housing duties onto private landlords, a litigator warns.
Families removed from Protea Village in Bishopscourt under the Group Areas Act returned to the area to report on the redevelopment of land won back through restitution, where roads and streetlights are in place but homes are still to be built.