On 12 May, Taffy Adler, CEO HDA, joined Mosima Mehale, the agency’s newly appointed manager of the Free State programme, at the Govan Mbeki awards ceremony in Bloemfontein. The HDA was the sponsor of three awards and donated three laptops to the Best Young Contractor, Best Woman Contractor and Best Contractor.
The Western Cape Minister of Human Settlements, Minister Bonginkosi Madikizela, head of department Mr Mbulelo Ntshangana, Mayco Member for Human Settlements Councillor Ernest Sonnenberg, and Daphne King, head of Communication and Stakeholder Engagement for the City of Cape Town, spent the day with members of the media visiting the N2 Gateway projects.
A workshop for metros, with the theme, Leadership in local government – building globally competitive cities, took place from 2 to 9 March as part of the executive programme of the graduate school of development, policy and practice at Stellenbosch University. Participants of the conference were city mayors and executive management teams of the metros.
A community development workshop was hosted by the HDA and the National Associations of Social Housing Organisations(NASHO) on 18 and 19 April in Johannesburg. The purpose of the workshop was to explore the role of social rental housing agencies in community development in South Africa, as well as an international perspective, to increase an exchange between social housing institutions, rental housing agencies and other organisations that focus on community development.
The HDA team in the agency’s new Limpopo regional office has been working hard and an early achievement is that agreed targets in the informal settlement upgrade programme in Limpopo province have been met.