Johannesburg has spent ten years hiring consultants while Slovo Park families wait
GroundUp | 05.05.2026 09:30
Since Slovo Park’s establishment south of Eldorado Park in the last years of apartheid, the residents of this informal settlement hoped for dignified development under the new democratic state. Having received no such thing, they eventually resorted to court action. It has now been more than a decade since the High Court, in the Melani judgment, ruled that the settlement must benefit from the Upgrading of Informal Settlements Programme (UISP). Yet Slovo Park only has minimal temporary services.
