MODULE :PUB2604
,PUB2604 Exam
Pack
Contains:
• Exam Questions & Answers
• Exam Study Notes
,MAY/JUNE 2016
QUESTION 1
DISCUSS IN DETAIL THE TYPES PF PUBLIC HOUSES THAT SHOULD BE
CONSIDERED IN SOUTH AFRICA IN ORDER TO REALISE THE GOVERNMENTS’
GOAL OF ONE MILLION NEW HOUSES BEING CONSTRUCTED BY 2020 (25)
SELF HELP HOUSING
This is a process in which people who need housing organize an implement activities leading to
of provision and maintenance of houses and infrastructure because the government cannot cope
with meeting the needs for housing. The responsibility for housing should be in the first place
remaining with the individual himself. In this regard he should be assisted by his employer and
private enterprise; the government can only play a supporting role.
SITES AND SERVICES
In this case plots are surveyed and demarcated; they are leveled and provided with basic services
such as access roads, footpaths, drainage, water, sewerage and perhaps electricity.
Complementary to efforts to upgrade existing squatter areas.
UPGRADING SQUATTER SETTLEMENTS
The United Nations has reported that at least 100 million people in the world have no shelter of
any kind, and at least half of them live in the third world countries in slum or squatter
developments. Thus it can be argued that vast settlements surrounding major cities in developing
countries were not rings of misery or ‘creeping cancers’ but evolving communities that is houses
in the process of development. This means that these squatter settlements simply need to be
improved to be suitable for human habitation.
AFFORDABLE HOUSING
This is a major problem in delivering housing services in S.A. The urban foundation noted that
there is no ‘housing problem’ in S.A. it is merely a money problem, that if wage levels were
adequate, people would be able to afford their houses. Nevertheless it would appear that there is
, both a housing problem and a money problem at present. The following proposals have been
suggested to make housing affordable , reducing building standards, accept lower qualities
finishes, imaginative and scientific use of indigenous materials, recognize that some elements of
self-help with competent technical direction is an inescapable option to cut down on building
costs.
QUESTION 2
DISCUSS ANY FIVE PRIMARY STAKEHOLDERS IN THE FIELD OF SOCIAL WELFARE
IN SOUTH AFRICA
1. THE NATIONAL DEPARTMENT WELFARE
IT functions at the national and provincial levels of government. It is responsible for national
norms and standards for rendering public welfare services and for ensuring that uniformity in the
application of particular functions is maintained. Provincial departments are responsible
concurrently with the national department for the planning, development and rendering of
welfare services. However where mutual co-operation between national and provincial
departments is essential, powers are allocated concurrently.
2. LOCAL GOVERNMENT LEVEL
The current ANC government is committed to decentralizing the social welfare delivery system.
This will promote the following, increases access to services, greater responsiveness to needs at
the local level, co-ordinate efforts, empowerment of local authorities who can b actively
involved in addressing their own needs. The department of welfare will develop a strategy for the
delivery of services at local government in consultation with its stakeholders. Such a strategy
will contain recommendations on functions that can be devolved most effectively to local
government level.
3. THE COMMUNITY
The welfare sector has a number of large infrastructures rooted in civil society. A rich tradition
of involvement on the part of civil society and organisation resource base has been built up over
decades. There are more than 10 000 organizations in civil society which have welfare and
,PUB2604 Exam
Pack
Contains:
• Exam Questions & Answers
• Exam Study Notes
,MAY/JUNE 2016
QUESTION 1
DISCUSS IN DETAIL THE TYPES PF PUBLIC HOUSES THAT SHOULD BE
CONSIDERED IN SOUTH AFRICA IN ORDER TO REALISE THE GOVERNMENTS’
GOAL OF ONE MILLION NEW HOUSES BEING CONSTRUCTED BY 2020 (25)
SELF HELP HOUSING
This is a process in which people who need housing organize an implement activities leading to
of provision and maintenance of houses and infrastructure because the government cannot cope
with meeting the needs for housing. The responsibility for housing should be in the first place
remaining with the individual himself. In this regard he should be assisted by his employer and
private enterprise; the government can only play a supporting role.
SITES AND SERVICES
In this case plots are surveyed and demarcated; they are leveled and provided with basic services
such as access roads, footpaths, drainage, water, sewerage and perhaps electricity.
Complementary to efforts to upgrade existing squatter areas.
UPGRADING SQUATTER SETTLEMENTS
The United Nations has reported that at least 100 million people in the world have no shelter of
any kind, and at least half of them live in the third world countries in slum or squatter
developments. Thus it can be argued that vast settlements surrounding major cities in developing
countries were not rings of misery or ‘creeping cancers’ but evolving communities that is houses
in the process of development. This means that these squatter settlements simply need to be
improved to be suitable for human habitation.
AFFORDABLE HOUSING
This is a major problem in delivering housing services in S.A. The urban foundation noted that
there is no ‘housing problem’ in S.A. it is merely a money problem, that if wage levels were
adequate, people would be able to afford their houses. Nevertheless it would appear that there is
, both a housing problem and a money problem at present. The following proposals have been
suggested to make housing affordable , reducing building standards, accept lower qualities
finishes, imaginative and scientific use of indigenous materials, recognize that some elements of
self-help with competent technical direction is an inescapable option to cut down on building
costs.
QUESTION 2
DISCUSS ANY FIVE PRIMARY STAKEHOLDERS IN THE FIELD OF SOCIAL WELFARE
IN SOUTH AFRICA
1. THE NATIONAL DEPARTMENT WELFARE
IT functions at the national and provincial levels of government. It is responsible for national
norms and standards for rendering public welfare services and for ensuring that uniformity in the
application of particular functions is maintained. Provincial departments are responsible
concurrently with the national department for the planning, development and rendering of
welfare services. However where mutual co-operation between national and provincial
departments is essential, powers are allocated concurrently.
2. LOCAL GOVERNMENT LEVEL
The current ANC government is committed to decentralizing the social welfare delivery system.
This will promote the following, increases access to services, greater responsiveness to needs at
the local level, co-ordinate efforts, empowerment of local authorities who can b actively
involved in addressing their own needs. The department of welfare will develop a strategy for the
delivery of services at local government in consultation with its stakeholders. Such a strategy
will contain recommendations on functions that can be devolved most effectively to local
government level.
3. THE COMMUNITY
The welfare sector has a number of large infrastructures rooted in civil society. A rich tradition
of involvement on the part of civil society and organisation resource base has been built up over
decades. There are more than 10 000 organizations in civil society which have welfare and
