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, July 15, 2013

Concrete Skills

Early departure from Pretoria and straight to Al’s Hardware on Main Reef Road for the 5 bags that we didn’t collect the previous day and straight to Slovo to return Frans’ cement and try and complete the tire stairs. 


With help and guidance from the community and the kids and with some improvised detailing - we took Friday morning to complete the tire stair structure onto the back of the truck.



Adam took some lessons on smoothing concrete with the bottom of a spade under close inspection from Oompie standing by to jump in. He took on fast! I on the other hand took lessons from the ingenuity of the kids in their improvisation with the tires.




As we patiently await funds to procure the gumpoles – we’ll leave this to the kids to test out.
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