Evaluating the state’s response to flooding disasters: the case of deelpan village emergency housing

dc.contributor.authorRirhandzu, Chuma
dc.date.accessioned2025-07-09T10:13:32Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.descriptionA research report submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the asters of Urban Studies (Housing and Human Settlements), In the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment , School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2024
dc.description.abstractOver the past few years, South Africa has been struggling with managing flooding episodes. From a housing point of view, one then worries about the living conditions of the poor people who do not have the necessary resources to recover from the effects of the disaster, like the people of Deelpan Village in the North West province. To obtain data for this research, I analysed secondary data in relation to disaster management, housing, and planning accessed from government websites. I also conducted a total of 18 semi-structured interviews with the officials and community representatives who were actively involved in the Deelpan Village emergency housing project. This study revealed that the people of Deelpan preferred permanent housing structures over temporary solutions; hence, the Temporary Residential Units have not been provided. The study concluded that the Deelpan residents rejected TRUs for permanent structures due to fear of state failure. Three years after the 2021 flooding, no housing support has been provided by the state, indicating a lack of resources to handle disasters.
dc.description.submitterMM2025
dc.facultyFaculty of Engineering and the Built Environment
dc.identifier.citationRirhandzu, Chuma. (2024). The role of design houses [Masters dissertation, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg]. WIReDSpace.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/45361
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
dc.rights© 2024 University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
dc.rights.holderUniversity of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
dc.schoolSchool of Architecture and Planning
dc.subjectUCTD
dc.subjectFlooding disaster
dc.subjectDeelpan village
dc.subjectState
dc.subject.primarysdgSDG-15: Life on land
dc.titleEvaluating the state’s response to flooding disasters: the case of deelpan village emergency housing
dc.typeDissertation

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