InternAfrica served information on the Western Cape Human Settlement and related South African Human Settlement crisis; reaching many more African countries this year, with a working solution.This Information was accessed by:
102 Universities
35 Technicons
13 media houses including CNN, BBC & Al Jazeera.
In 2009
Fire displaced 6,129 humans, killing 20, maiming another 6 and destroyed 1,483 shacks. Floods displaced 36,399 humans from their settlements.
InternAfrica has not included Xenophobic displacements in this years tally.
(click here for 10 Year spreadsheet)
2000 - 2009 Affected by Fire & Flood
Number of Shacks: 52,875
Human Settlement Deaths: 281
Humans Displaced from Settlements: 220,302
Burn Victims: 88
2009 saw 3 international companies start their businesses building with cannabricks, including the 1st international conference; the year closed with the printing of an extraordinary gazette 6679 - where the city of Cape Town received R2,5 Million to research sustainable low-cost housing...
Measurable outputs: The research would result in:
(Please note this is as printed in the gazette)- New businesses that could emerge from the project
- Ecological sound and energy efficient initiatives generated in the surrounding area;
- Reduced levels of local drug use and violence
- Percentage of food grown locally and energy produced locally;
- Amount of local currency in circulation as a percentage of total money in circulation;
- Quantity of renewable building materials produced locally
- Levels of pride and "ownership" displayed through maintenance of the settlement; and
- Contributions to the Cape town City targets (10% of houses in City with solar water heaters by 2010 and 10% renewable energy by 2020)
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In the last week of July 2009 the Democratic Alliance launched its Wasteful Expenditure Monitor, which is designed to track wasteful and fruitless expenditure by the ANC executive. What we could not have expected is that less than six months later, an enormous R605-million of wasteful and fruitless ANC spending has been clocked up on our monitor. This equates to roughly R3.6-million of wasteful spending every day, or R2 531 every minute, that the ANC is in office...
We will keep the Monitor updated throughout 2010 as we continue to ask tough questions and hold ministers to account for any reckless spending of public funds.
We will also continue to call on government departments and members of the executive to do the right thing and, following the example of the DA provincial government in the Western Cape, implement measures to monitor and cut back on unnecessary government spending. - - DA Newsroom
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