North West Human Settlements hosts stakeholder consultation workshop on Rental Housing Tribunal

• Published date: 24 May 2022
• Publication title: South African Official News

The North West province was recently hailed as one of the best performing provinces on the Housing Rental Tribunal Services. The accolade' s by the National Department of Human Settlements accord during a two-day stakeholder consultation workshop on Rental Housing Tribunal in the province held in Rustenburg and Mahikeng. The purpose of this session was to empower the stakeholders on the processes and legislation of The Rental Housing Tribunal.

The North West Housing Rental Tribunal has past three years successfully resolved about 501 cases in the province. The A few of those were done through the virtual sessions. According to Ronald Mukhombo, who the manager for Stakeholder Support for Rental Housing Tribunal at the National Department, the North West Rental Housing Tribunal is the only one in the country that conducted a hearing during the hard lockdown in 2020. He said the North West Tribunal also made a mark in 2018 by obtaining a second position during the Govan Mbeki Awards despite the challenges they are faced with.

' 'We are aware of the capacity development challenges the organisation is faced with. The National Department will appoint a service provider who will conduct training for officials. We also want to encourage municipalities to employ Rental Tribunal officers so that there should be coordination that will lead to easy solutions to Tribunal matters. The establishment of Rental Housing Tribunal offices in local government means service delivery to our communities' , said Mukhombo.

Mukhombo also cautioned that the RHT is the...