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Human Settlements Review, Volume 1, Number 1, 2010 to, for example, the system of developed by Open Source House (see www.os-house. org. The graduates would emerge into ethical professionals with the will and skills to play a meaningfully role in solving the problems of urban informal housing. There is plenty of opportunity for government and education institutions to liaise to in terms of strategic visioning, priority setting, forging of bilateral and multilateral links, and research funding. CONCLUSION There is a housing deficiency in South Africa that is, to a large extent, being fulfilled by burgeoning informal settlements. The government strategy of providing completed houses to beneficiaries is failing to meet the deficiency. Moreover, this approach is also prone to a range of qualitative problems. This paper has proposed an alternative method based on incremental innovative intervention as a more efficacious approach in South Africa’s context. The approach suggested hinges on government-empowered self-help as an avenue for unlocking the currently latent resources and innovative energy in communities. Government should limit its role to that of a provider of a guiding framework within which the people have the liberty to innovate at all levels of the production chain to create sustainable habitats while saving money, creating jobs, building social networks, and preserving the natural environment. masses would probably be driven to riot by any suggestion that they include something as “dirt” cheap as earth or reclaimed waste as part of the solution for self-building their abodes. After all, recent “toilet riots” in Cape Town demonstrate that in present day South Africa, even the very poor prefer to have concrete walls for their toilets. Mindset change takes a generation – which is approximately 30 years. Starting today, incremental innovation can lead to greatly improved and improving human settlements by 2050. Perhaps above all, people need to be imbued with a pride that will open their eyes to the riches within their seemingly hopeless communities. A richness so profuse that world famous architect Jo Noero took the shack and the informal as the genesis of his design philosophy which, in a refreshingly wicked twist that only gifted designers are capable of orchestrating, he has successfully applied to informal and upmarket buildings alike. This underscores that within the slums is the power; the power to innovate liveable habitats for the people, by the people, of the people. It is appreciated that the reality on the ground is such that the proposals herein cannot be realised overnight or even in a couple of years but could take decades. There are powerful vested interests to contend with and the poor 98
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