Africa Centre has from our inception been concerned by the quality of life of our citizens. Poverty, joblessness and resulting trauma have increased with time. We have facilitated, funded and partnered with a range of individuals and organisations. Investigating and proposing changes in practice and legislation.
The successful and profitable outcome of a deliberate and coordinated urban development strategy will result in a massive increase in ownership by the poor of households, with stable income, living in medium to higher density regenerative urban spaces. Easy access to a diversity of facilities and opportunities, fixed assets with real value and substantially reduced transport costs will contribute. This will provide the necessary foundation for viable municipal government with a sustainable rates-base and a significant increase in the proportion of the urban population that can pay for municipal services. Two million value creating jobs for newly skilled people in the short term. The bulwark against catastrophic unemployment nurturing seeds of destruction and an empowering modern, political economy.