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Paper applications are being scrapped in 2022, which experts say will reduce waiting time and curb corruption

The City of Joburg Department of Development Planning is fully migrating to its Construction Permit Management System (CPMS) digital platform and doing away with paper-based manual submissions for building plan applications. As of 03 January 2022, architectural professionals who are registered with the South African Council for the Architectural Profession, are to submit all building and Site Development Plans for building plan applications online.

Tebogo Letsie, Gallo Images, City Press The Department of Public Works and Infrastructure and the Special Investigating Unit have created a new anti-corruption forum. The forum is aimed at monitoring infrastructure projects more effectively and putting systems in place to detect and prevent corruption. Representatives of the forum include the NPA and the Hawks. The Department of Public Works and Infrastructure and the Special Investigating Unit have created a new anti-corruption forum aimed at monitoring infrastructure projects more effectively and putting systems in place to detect and prev...

In South Africa, the gap between who designs buildings and who actually lives in them is one of the widest in the world. About 4 in 5 architects are white, though white South Africans are only about 9% of the population. Less than one-third of architects are women, and just 4% women of color.  The push to change that is part of the country’s overall transformation since the end of apartheid. But it also ties into an international conversation about who gets to design the spaces we move through every day. From Austria to India, city planners have wrestled with how to better accommodate peop...

Here's SA's draft new critical skills list, aimed at attracting foreigners Business Insider SA facebook email Getty Images Government has compiled a new proposed list of critical skills, which should make it easier for some overseas workers to get visas to work and live in South Africa.  The list was last updated in 2014. New additions include jobs like general accountant, investment manager, digital artist, and chef. For more articles, go to . On Thursday, South Africa finally released a proposed new list of critical skills that can make it easier for forei...