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IOL News
5 days ago
- Business
- IOL News
Challenges in issuing title deeds to residents of Durban community
A community meeting in Trenance Park, north of Durban, on Wednesday provided feedback on the issue of title deeds. Image: Rashina Singh Residents in illegal occupation of houses, deceased estates and problems with the township register are some of the factors hindering the roll out of title deeds to residents of Trenance Park, north of Durban. Rashina Singh, a Minorities of South Africa (Mosa), Proportional Representative (PR) Councillor in eThekwini, brought up the matter at an eThekwini council meeting last month. Singh said Trenance Park is a residential area in Verulam where many families have invested in homes over the past 39 years. Singh said the issue of title deed issuance has lingered, with some residents waiting for years to receive the necessary documentation. 'This situation has not only affected property rights but also impacted the community's socio-economic conditions, as the lack of title deeds has made it difficult for residents to access bank loans, insurance, credit authority agreements and other financial services that typically require proof of ownership," she said. The Trenance Park suburb is divided into different units, with a total number of 2,191 houses of which only 1,222 title deeds have been handed over to owners. Video Player is loading. Play Video Play Unmute Current Time 0:00 / Duration -:- Loaded : 0% Stream Type LIVE Seek to live, currently behind live LIVE Remaining Time - 0:00 This is a modal window. Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window. Text Color White Black Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Transparency Opaque Semi-Transparent Background Color Black White Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Transparency Opaque Semi-Transparent Transparent Window Color Black White Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Transparency Transparent Semi-Transparent Opaque Font Size 50% 75% 100% 125% 150% 175% 200% 300% 400% Text Edge Style None Raised Depressed Uniform Dropshadow Font Family Proportional Sans-Serif Monospace Sans-Serif Proportional Serif Monospace Serif Casual Script Small Caps Reset restore all settings to the default values Done Close Modal Dialog End of dialog window. Advertisement Video Player is loading. Play Video Play Unmute Current Time 0:00 / Duration -:- Loaded : 0% Stream Type LIVE Seek to live, currently behind live LIVE Remaining Time - 0:00 This is a modal window. Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window. Text Color White Black Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Transparency Opaque Semi-Transparent Background Color Black White Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Transparency Opaque Semi-Transparent Transparent Window Color Black White Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Transparency Transparent Semi-Transparent Opaque Font Size 50% 75% 100% 125% 150% 175% 200% 300% 400% Text Edge Style None Raised Depressed Uniform Dropshadow Font Family Proportional Sans-Serif Monospace Sans-Serif Proportional Serif Monospace Serif Casual Script Small Caps Reset restore all settings to the default values Done Close Modal Dialog End of dialog window. Next Stay Close ✕ In response, the eThekwini Human Settlements and Infrastructure Unit stated that in Trenance Park 2B, none of the home owners were handed title deeds because the township register was not opened. The municipality stated that a project team is attending to outstanding town planning issues in housing phase 2B, such as obtaining an approved general plan. The unit stated that the appointment of the surveyor has been finalised. Steps taken to address the delay Officials have visited the project phases several times to issue title deeds. Door-to-door beneficiary verification had been conducted. Letters were issued to beneficiaries approved on the Housing Subsidy system portal who do not have title deeds to come forward to sign the necessary documents, but the response was very poor. Overall, the municipality also found that in some instances, housing subsidy approved beneficiaries were no longer in occupation of their houses. Also, the housing subsidy approved beneficiaries are deceased and the descendants are not willing to wind up the estate due to family disputes or other unknown reasons.
National Observer
28-07-2025
- Business
- National Observer
How a young leader is building the circular economy
These in-their-own-words pieces are told to Patricia Lane and co-edited with input from the interviewee for the purpose of brevity. Abhiudai Mishra (Abhi) is growing the circular economy. This 24 year old Vancouverite is the co-founder and operations director of Mosa Technologies which, in its first two years, has transformed more than 40,000 glass bottles into beautifully upcycled glasses, platters and candles. Mosa also offers workshops for students of all ages to learn about and participate in the circular economy, where they themselves do the upcycling. Abhi is a Starfish Canada 2025 Top 25 Environmentalist Under 25 award winner. Tell us about your project My co-founder Prishita Agarwal and I believe one of the best ways to learn about the circular economy is to engage in it directly. Once you work in the industry, purchase a beautiful affordable upcycled product or make one yourself, you know without a doubt that sustainability can be affordable, beautiful and easy and popular. Our team of ten employees have decent work supplying more than 60 retail stores across Canada. We have engaged 800 students from kindergarten to university in learning about circularity as they contribute to it. We collect bottles and glass fragments from restaurants, bars and landfills. We work with designers and use technology adapted from ceramic cutting to make new things from old. How did you get into this work? I was a student at UBC's Sauder School of Business and had a house party. As I was cleaning up my apartment one of the empty bottles broke. It frustrated me that recycling glass shards is awkward. Prishita and I researched how to do that and encountered the idea of transforming the economy so nothing is wasted and everything is repurposed. We decided to explore how to use waste glass. We bought a small glass cutter online and began experimenting. The first product took us weeks of work but eventually we had enough for a booth at a UBC student event. We sold out in 3 hours! Now just 2 years later we have hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue and are finding new markets every day. Abhi Mishra, co-founder of Mosa Technologies, has over the past two years played a key role in diverting more than 40,000 glass bottles from waste bins, instead converting them into beautifully upcycled glasses, platters and candles. What makes it hard? We have a lot of success placing our products with small independent stores like Cultured Coast in Nanaimo, Caribou Gifts in Toronto and Makers Vancouver but it has proved challenging to persuade large retailers to carry them. We are working to remind them it is good for their brand to carry beautiful sustainable products that reach consumers with their meaning. What keeps you awake at night? Is it going to be enough? Is there more we could be doing to spread these concepts more rapidly? What gives you hope? Last week two young women approached me saying they had been inspired by a talk I gave recently and asked me to mentor them with their idea about reducing fast fashion. This reminded me we never know when we will have impact. How did the way you were raised affect you? My family has been one of the noble families in the Indian city of Udaipur for 500 years. Udaiper is sometimes called the Venice of India with canals, rivers and lakes and I was raised to understand stewarding this beautiful place is a responsibility. My Grade One teacher explained carpooling was a way to cut air pollution and I went door knocking to our neighbours with the idea. My parents viewed this as a natural response to new information. I have always known I would work to protect the people and places we love. That houseparty showed me my current path. What would you like to say to other young people? Start. Don't wait for all the stars to align or until you know everything. That will never happen anyway and you will have lost valuable time and experience. Don't wait for funding either. We didn't have any. We just got going. Find a friend or colleague or mentor and just start. What about older readers? Look around you for people who are working to protect our land and water and offer your experience and money if you can. We don't have time to make the same mistakes you made so help us avoid them.
Yahoo
30-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Elk Grove moves forward with affordable housing project
( — The Elk Grove City Council has unanimously approved a $3.5 million loan to support phase one of a new 240-unit affordable housing project. The project will allot a portion of the rentable units to adults with disabilities. The Sheldon Farms North Affordable Housing Project is being developed by Abode Communities, a non-profit affordable housing provider. Sarah Bontrager, Housing and Public Service Manager for the City of Elk Grove, says, 'There are a lot of folks in our community that struggle to afford housing.' She says that Phase 1 of Sheldon Farms North, near the corner of Bruceville and Sheldon roads, will cost about $1.3 million on just the land. Due to the size of the project, they will need to break it up into phases to get it financed. Affordable housing has proven to be in extremely high demand in Elk Grove, with a massive response from the community toward two previous affordable housing projects, The Lyla and Mosa Apartments. Bontrager says, 'The Lyla and Mosa projects, about 700 units between those two, and we received 13,000 lottery applications for those, so there's a huge amount of demand for affordable housing in the city.' This also follows a lawsuit in 2023 brought forth by California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Governor Gavin Newsom against the city, claiming the city unlawfully denied a proposed 66-unit supportive housing project for lower-income households. The Sheldon Farms North Development comes at a time when housing expenses continue to skyrocket. And Bontrager adds, 'Our median home price for 'For Sale' homes in Elk Grove is now up above $640,000. Apartments are also high, a two-bedroom apartment market rate rent is about $2,300 per month.' This project is breaking new ground inclusively for Elk Grove residents. Bontrager says they are setting aside 25% of the units for adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities, which would be a first for the Affordable Housing in Elk Grove. She says that folks with intellectual or developmental disabilities are in adulthood now, still being cared for by family or living at home with family. A lot of aging parents are worried about what will happen to their adult child when they are no longer able to take care of them. The city is looking for a heightened level of design to spark community connection. Bontrager says a lot of community amenities are being planned in the project, such as a splash pad on site and two playgrounds. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
14-02-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Nourishing Our Roots: Live music, food, plant seeds and more
SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) —Local nonprofit Shreveport Green hosts 'Nourishing Our Roots' to celebrate Black History Month. Community members will have the opportunity to taste food by James Beard Award semifinalist Chef Hardette, hear from Black farmers, take home seeds to plant, and much more. Shreveport Green says free cooking demonstrations will be to sample traditional black dishes featuring Chef Mosa of Sassi Catering and Chef Hardette. This coming Monday, February 17, volunteering begins at 10 a.m. to get your hands into the soil, plant a seed in the garden and take home seeds and pots. The event continues until 1:30 p.m. at the Shreveport Green Urban Farm. Community Market sells $1 per pound fresh produce They will host a 'Black Farmer Reflection,' during which the community will hear from local farmer Lee Washington and share his experience, insight from the land, and movements to impact locally. It is free and open to the public, stroll through the Shreveport Green Urban Farm and an opportunity to meet your community. The Boys and Girls Club of North Louisiana will volunteer in the community garden at 10 a.m. The event continues until 1:30 p.m., and it is within walking distance of the Krewe of Harambee MLK Parade at 1034 Sprague Street, Shreveport. Follow Shreveport Green for any updates. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
