{"id":286900,"date":"2018-11-26T07:52:21","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T05:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=286900"},"modified":"2018-11-26T07:52:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T05:52:21","slug":"too-many-people-are-moving-to-gauteng-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/property\/286900\/too-many-people-are-moving-to-gauteng-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Too many people are moving to Gauteng: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National Council of Provinces&#8217; chairperson, Thandi Modise, has asked President Cyril Ramaphosa to address the issue of mass migration to Gauteng.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/increasing-migration-into-gauteng-placing-burden-on-service-delivery-ncop-to-ramaphosa-20181123\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News24<\/a><\/strong>, Modise has raised concerns about how the influx of migrants has impacted healthcare and other services in the province &#8211; adding that there has been a significant increase in migration numbers over the\u00a0last four years.<\/p>\n<p>She further warned that if the issue is not\u00a0dealt with properly, it could lead to growing\u00a0criminal networks, the exploitation of vulnerable people, and the undermining of local laws and regulations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know that research shows that the growth of the Gauteng population is large and that growth places a real burden of service delivery to our people,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know from the Minister of Health that almost 60% of the beds used in hospitals are not occupied by South Africans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0Gauteng City-Region Observatory (GCRO) <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/property\/242717\/too-many-people-are-coming-to-gauteng-and-a-lot-of-residents-want-influx-control-back\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">released<\/a> <\/strong>in May found that the province experienced net migration from other provinces of 904,619 people from 2006 to 2011 and 981,290 people from 2011 to 2016.<\/p>\n<p>With Statistics South Africa projecting that between 2016 and 2021 another million people could be added to the population \u2013 current residents are beginning to feel the effects.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gauteng\u2019s established population has not always received this process of normalisation in positive terms, and there remains considerable sympathy for regulating urbanisation,&#8221; the GCRO said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When asked\u00a0whether they agreed or disagreed with the statement \u2018there are too many people coming to Gauteng, we should bring back influx-control\u2019, 43% of respondents agreed that influx-control should be reinstated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/property\/285796\/ramaphosa-signs-off-on-stronger-rights-for-land-occupiers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ramaphosa signs off on stronger rights for land occupiers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Council of Provinces&#8217; chairperson, Thandi Modise, has asked President Cyril Ramaphosa to address the issue of mass migration to Gauteng.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":138989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12755],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-286900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-property","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286900"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286938,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286900\/revisions\/286938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}