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The City of Johannesburg utility cut electricity to five hijacked buildings in Doornfontein as it targets about 108 bad buildings in the inner city that owe roughly R115 million.
Housing Principal Secretary Charles Hinga says the government will build homes under its affordable housing programme aimed at the ageing parents of Kenyans living abroad.
Egypt's Industrial Development Authority has allocated more than 300,000 square metres of industrial land to investors under a rent-to-own model designed to cut the upfront cost of building factories.
Housing Minister Muttaqha Darma says the Federal Government wants workers to stop spending 40 to 60 per cent of their income on rent, as about 110 million Nigerians remain unhoused.
Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Dean Macpherson says 8,465 government-owned buildings are in poor or critical condition, with a maintenance backlog of about R28 billion and no confirmed timeline for clearing it.
Kenya's National Land Commission has proposed new regulations that would require it to record and publish details of historical land injustice investigations, including claims, evidence and determinations, in a bid to improve transparency in its proceedings.
Roads and Highways Minister Governs Kwame Agbodza has warned property owners and developers building within the reservation of the Dome-Kwabenya-Berekuso-Kitase road corridor that they will not be compensated for structures erected there.
A Lagos resident has asked Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to order an independent inspection of a construction site at 28C Glover Road, Ikoyi, alleging the developer built without a mandatory setback and that falling scaffolding forced his family to leave their home.
More than 200 homes in Ogwashi-Uku, Aniocha South Local Government Area of Delta State, are at risk of caving in as a deep gully at the Ogbe-Ahor and Ogbe-Umuokwuni quarters continues to expand, community leaders have warned.