The Limpopo Implementation Protocol has been signed. In order to maintain the momentum started by our visit to the province in July, several months ago the HDA team started on development work prior to the signing off of the operational plan.
The National Department of Human Settlements (NDHS) visited the N2 Gateway and Zanemvula Section 29 projects of the HDA. The purpose of the visit was to share project progress, challenges, lessons and experiences, as well as to show the HDA’s role in implementing and managing these large-scale projects.
On Friday, 12 August 2011, officials from the Northern Cape Department of Cooperative Governance, Human Settlements and Traditional Affairs and the Sol Plaatje Municipality visited the N2 Gateway project. The purpose of the visit was for the HDA to share lessons learnt from a mega housing integrated development project.
The annual South African Local Government Association (SALGA) national conference took place in Durban from 29 August to 1 September 2011.
In July 2011, Karishma Busgeeth, HDA’s Spatial Information and Data Manager, lead author of two papers titled NaHSLI: A South African Catalogue of Habitable Land and LaPsis: The Window to South Africa’s Land and Property, attended and presented both papers at the Esri (Environmental Systems Research Institute) International User Conference in San Diego, USA.
