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Land and Housing - a Soul City publication


Summary

As a facet of the South Africa Land Reform Programme, the purpose of this booklet is to educate and entertain readers on the subject of land and housing - building futures. It helps to teach people about rights relating to land and housing and what people can do to improve their homes. This print publication is a project of Soul City's Community Development Project. The booklet is also produced for broadcast on radio and television (SABC 1). The booklet informs, encourages discussion, and entertains. Translations of important words are included to isiZulu, isiXhosa, seSotho and Afrikaans.

Land reform is a way of allowing South Africans to buy land to live on, or work on, anywhere in the country. Topics covered include, redistribution of land, restitution of land rights, land tenure reform, rights and responsibilities, housing and safe living, housing subsidy, how to borrow money for housing, other ways to save money and social housing, and social support services.

Publisher

Contact

Soul City Institute for Health & Development Communication

P.O. Box 1290
Houghton 2041

Johannesburg
South Africa
Tel: 011 341 0360
Fax: 011 341 0370

Source

Soul City website August 2 2006 and September 8 2008.

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Placed on the Soul Beat Africa site June 14 2001
Last Updated September 08 2008



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