How old is mitchells plain

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The third oldest settlement in South Africa, Paarl is steeped in history, culture, natural splendour and a centuries-old tradition of winemaking. This study looks at the township redevelopment project of Mitchells Plain centre and makes recommendations for efficiency. Mitchells Plain is a typical example of apartheid spatial planning, which relegated the residents of townships to the margins of economic activity.

The area is effectively a dormitory town with a great deal of vacant, unsafe space. Result-- housing for 18 families in 6 weeks that are still lived in today. However all was not straight forward. One land owner refused to leave until alternative accommodation was found for not only his family but his donkey.

This resulted in the land around his property being brought to construction level about 2 m higher than his house. He refused entry to all council employees. As 3 triple storey block could not be built until he left I was sent to survey an alternative position. Eventually I think he was rehoused in Manenburg. Another owner managed to get his full sale price after waiting until the houses on his plot to be completed and then informing the council that as they had not finalized the sale of the land with him he could now legally sell the newly completed houses [still the law here I think].

At this time work on the roads continued with one well built and occupied original farm house right in the way. Few weeks later I arrived on site to see the roof being torn off the house, the family in tears carrying furniture out and the dozen standing by.

As a lowly technician I would have had no authority to stop the workmen anyway but I will never forget that scene. Since I returned in I have tried to find out if any of the original owners of the Lavender Hill land ever lodged a claim for proper compensation but I believe none have.

Shortly after that the main infrastructure for Michells plain was started. This development 15 km by 6 km on the False Bay coast was an area of sand dunes up to 18 m high covered in cape fynbos and wildlife from herds of Cape Grysbok to poisonous button spiders with various snakes bids and rodents in between.

It took a week to find his car and another 10 days to find his body. It had been in the design stages for 5 years and was to be the same as the existing townships of Manenburg, Lavender Hill etc. However after 18 months construction of the major roads, storm water and sewerage.

The government stated they would give extra funding if it was all home ownership. In order to fast track this huge task HBU was split into 2. Housing remained under Mr Reich and road and drainage was under Stanislav Bronofski [a real gentleman who had been orphaned as a child while walking from the trans Siberian railway to Theran with his mother and 2 sisters. To wipe out this backlog and cope with the natural increase 40, houses would have to be provided by , this would mean having to build an average of 7, houses per year for the next 7 years.

The need for an area like Mitchells Plain was envisaged way back in the the first proposal was tabled by the City Engineer in What we the residents do not know about is the daunting and the magnitude of the task that it took to create this place we call home, a few interesting facts; A large number of Grys, Rib Buck and tortoise were carefully captured and relocated to the Cape Point and Silvermine Reserves.

In the beginning of , in two days of a south easterly gale wind, , of sand was lost off an area that had not been stabilized. This spread itself thinly over a the land from Mitchells Plain to Devils Peak and then out to sea An extensive ground water resource underlies most of the 3, ha that is Mitchells Plain. Some of the exploratory boreholes are being used to recover water for horticultural purposes to supplement the main supply and boreholes were also sunk to specifically cater for the sports fields.

When building began, houses were built at a staggering rate of 33 units per working day or one house every 15 minutes. The Town Centre was developed on a budget of R25million and completed in 12 months.

Now this Mitchells Plain which was built on the idea of have a self-sufficient segregated dormitory Town far from the white areas and the City, is now home to over ,, with a spending power of over Rmillion per month is a major player in the Politics of the Western Cape, and should now become a major factor economically. Mitchells Plain has a good infrastructure eg. Mitchells Plain also boast loads of medical facilities eg.