uTshani Buyakhuluma (the grass speaks): People's Dialogue and the South African Homeless People's Federation (1994-6)

Environment and Urbanization

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 153-167

  Bolnick, Joel ^a,b  

^a People's Dialogue ^*

^b People's Dialogue on Land and Shelter   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FINANCIAL PROVISION; HOUSING FINANCE; HOUSING POLICY; INFORMAL SETTLEMENT; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; SELF-HELP HOUSING; SOCIAL MOVEMENT; SOUTH AFRICAN HOMELESS PEOPLE'S FEDERATION;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0030405714     PISSN: 09562478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/095624789600800216     Document Type: Review

References (6)

1. See Bolnick, Joel (1993), "The People's Dialogue on land and shelter; community driven networking in SouthAfrica's informal settlements", Environment and Urbanization Vol.5, No.1, October, pages 91-110 for an account of the first three years of the People's Dialogue and the South African Homeless People's Federation.
2. See reference 1, Bolnick (1993) for more details of this exchange programme.
3. The International Federation of the Homeless Poor, otherwise known as the International Slum Dwellers Network, is a loose network of people's organizations who share a common strategy of seeking to address issues of security of tenure and affordable housing via savings and credit. Members' organizations are from India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Cambodia, Philippines, Namibia and SouthAfrica.
4. See reference 1, Bolnick (1993); see also the NGO Profile of SPARC (1990), "SPARC - Developing new NGO lines", Environment and Urbanization Vol.2, No.1, April, pages 91-104.
5. Mahila Milan is a federation of women's collectives in Bombay that was formed by women pavement dwellers; the name means "women together" in Hindi. For more details of its work, see Patel, Sheela and Celine D'Cruz (1993), "The Mahila Milan crisis credit scheme; from a seed to a tree", Environment and Urbanization Vol.5, No.1, pages 9-17.
6. Their official name is Members of Executive Council at the provincial government level; these are in effect ministers within provincial governments.