The HDA is the implementing agent for the Bendor Extension 100 development as part of the Agency’s Medium Term Operational Plan with Limpopo. Bendor Extension 100 was introduced by the Limpopo Cooperative Governance, Human Settlements and Traditional Affairs Department (COGHSTA) in 2007 to facilitate the development of a classical integrated human settlement in a well-located area that provides convenient access to urban amenities, including places of employment.
Boystown Phase one on the N2 Gateway has been a troubled project in many ways having experienced numerous delays, mostly due to disputes between the groups within the community. Despite these delays, the first 11 houses were handed to approved beneficiaries by the Western Cape Premier Helen Zille and Western Cape MEC Human Settlements BonginkosiMadikizela. The handover took place on Thursday, 24 May.
The government’s decision to recognise progress in Cape Town’s troubled N2 Gateway project –by awarding it the Govan Mbeki award for the best priority human settlements project of 2012 – is evidence of the advances that have been made in improving the quality of life for the thousands of people settled along the city’s N2 highway.
The Housing Development Agency (HDA) handed over much-needed school equipment to the newly opened Alfonso Arries Primary School in Chatty on 2 August 2012.
In terms of land, the HDA’s land acquisitions team has secured the release of rural development and land reform land to extend the existing Phuthaditjhaba graveyard. The land known as the remaining extent of farm Klein Begin No979 in the District of Harrismith Free State Province measures 259 hectares and is located within a 3-km radius of Phuthaditjhaba Central Business District.
