Slovo Park at a Glance

Slovo Park is situated in a politically and socially sensitive stretch of land south of Soweto. The community has been known by national government as Nancefield, by local council as Olifantsvlei and in the last five years as Slovo Park – named in honour of South Africa’s first minister of housing and former Umkhonto we Sizwe General, Joe Slovo.

The forced changing of identity reflects an on-going struggle faced by the leadership of Slovo Park to gain recognition as a legitimate settlement to access governmental support. This battle has been fought through constant shifts in governmental policy, power and promises for the community of Slovo Park. Their only tactics comprising of service delivery protest, painstaking formal requests for upgrade and currently a lawsuit against the City of Johannesburg.

Currently the community of Slovo Park with its development partners are strategizing this key social and political move.


THIS SITE SERVES AS A PORTAL FOR THE COMMUNITY OF SLOVO PARK & THE VARIOUS DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS TO SHARE THE JOURNEY OF RE-DEVELOPMENT.


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Monday, December 12, 2011

Summary of 2011 Workshops

Still of Workshop .A.Melck 2011

The conclusion of a series of twelve workshops, held in conjunction with Carin Combrinck the (University of Pretoria's Architecture Department ) and the community was held in Slovo Park. The intention of the final workshop was to develop action plans and development strategies for implementation in 2012.

The first day of the workshop was opened by a presentation by Ms Carin
Combrinck ( UP Lecturer )and consisted of a visual summary of all the workshops that had taken place this year.These workshops were themed with the intention of trying to identify Slovo's unconscious collective vision.Below is a summary of the workshops.

















Information is still to be collected and collated, but the conclusion of the study will be found in a phd paper by Ms Combrinck, concerning participative research methods.

The implementation of community identified projects will take place next year. The University of Pretoria's Architecture Department will make itself available as a resource or consultant, when Slovo Park initiates the new projects.