Infrastructure
In terms of housing delivery for the first six months of this financial year:
(1) (a)(i) What was the delivery target for Breaking New Ground (BNG) housing and (ii) how many BNG housing units have been delivered, (b) how many serviced sites have been delivered, (c)(i) what was the target for informal settlement upgrades and (ii) how many informal settlements have been upgraded, (d) how many of the projects above are in still in progress, (e) how many projects above are projected to be completed this year and (f) how much of the (i) Human Settlements Development Grant (HSDG) and (ii) Informal Settlements Upgrading Partnership Grant (ISUPG) has been spent;
(2) whether his Department has been notified that any of the grant funding is at risk of being (a) withheld, (b) returned or (c) redirected to other provinces; if so, what are the relevant details;
(3) whether the intergovernmental dispute, related to the cut in funding in 2024/25, has commenced; if so, at what stage is the dispute.
- (a)(i) The delivery target for BNG units for the first six months (quarters 1 and 2) of the 2025/2026 financial year is 1 234 against an annual target of 4 113.
(ii) 1 601 BNG housing units have been delivered.
(b) 388 serviced sites have been delivered.
(c) (i) The targets for informal settlement upgrades are annual targets. In the 2025/2026 financial year 12 informal settlements have been earmarked to be upgraded to various phases under the ISUPG to improve the living conditions of informal settlement residents through a phased, in-situ upgrading approach as outlined below.
Phase 1 (Preparation and Planning): Key deliverables include community profiling, enumeration, participatory planning, geotechnical and environmental assessments and initiation of tenure regularisation processes. This phase also involves community mobilisation and the establishment of governance structures such as settlement forums.
Phase 2 (Implementation of Interim Services): Focuses on the provision of interim basic services such as water standpipes, communal sanitation, emergency access roads, public lighting and waste removal. Land planning and layout designs are also finalised during this phase in preparation for more permanent infrastructure.
Phase 3 (Installation of Permanent Infrastructure): Projects deliver full engineering services including reticulated water and sanitation systems, household electricity connections, formalised roads and stormwater systems and secured tenure (e.g., issuing of title deeds or other legal tenure rights).
(ii) During the first six months of this financial year, 3 informal settlements have been upgraded to different phases as outlined in in (1)(c)(i) above.
(d) There are 36 projects that are still in progress.
(e) By the end of the current financial year, a total of 51 projects is projected for completion.
(f)(i) R911,712,997 of R1 663 926 000 of the Human Settlements Development Grant (HSDG) has been spent.
(ii) R163,265,146 of R325 722 000 of the Informal Settlements Upgrading Partnership Grant (ISUPG) has been spent.
- (a)(b)(c) No
- I announced the intention to declare a dispute in my Budget Speech on 7 April this year. Subsequently, this intention was conveyed to the National Department in writing. A formal intergovernmental dispute has not yet been declared, and the parties are still in ongoing discussions on the matter.
