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Second Creek residents get a second chance
When Thuthiwe Rwexu appeared on a television programme that highlighted the plight of Second Creek residents, it was not only her living conditions that sent shivers down the spines of viewers.
Restoring dignity through better homes
When Samuel Kubayi arrived in Johannesburg in 1996 from the Eastern Cape, his goal was to find a job in the City of Gold and build a proper home for his family.
Reclaimed land puts communities on path to success
Under the apartheid regime the lives of black communities across the country were disrupted. Many were forcibly removed from their ancestral land, the only home they knew, as a result of apartheid laws.
According to the Twenty Year Review, in 1994 most agricultural land (83 per cent) was owned by whites and only 17 per cent of the land was available for black people in the former homelands.
Over the past two decades, thousands of families who were forced to give up their land under apartheid have been compensated or handed back land.
SA’s land reform policies producing results
Since 1994, government has transferred millions of hectares of land back to the black majority who were removed from their ancestral land over 100 years ago.
NHI: Quality health care for all of SA
South Africa is making significant progress with the National Health Insurance (NHI) - a financing system that will make sure all South Africans get essential health care, regardless of how much they earn.
The NHI aims to eliminate the barriers limiting access to health care. National Treasury is working with the Department of Health to examine the required funding arrangements for NHI.
Government has put in place the building blocks for NHI such as re-engineering primary health care.