The National Home Builderâs Registration Council (NHBRC) recently held an imbizo to engage with people living with disabilities at the City Hall in Port Elizabeth. The event was put together in conjunction with the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipality and was attended by various organisations that work with the disabled. The Imbizo was attended by over […]
The National Home Builders Registration Council (NHBRC) in partnership with Ligwalagwala FM and other partners will hand over a house in Bettyâs Goed near Dundonald in the Mpumalanga Province on Saturday, 20 February 2016. The handover will be made to Ms Khanyisile Masina, who is a victim of women abuse whose ex-partner cut off both […]
This week more than 30 unemployed military veterans in the Chris Hani District Municipality received accredited certificates in home building offered by the National Home Builders Registration Council (NHBRC) in Queenstown, Eastern Cape. The military veterans undertook intensive theoretical and practical training in roofing, plumbing, plastering and carpentry for a period of three months. The […]
Although Mandela Day is five months away, the National Home Builderâs Registration Council (NHBRC) believes that this day should be celebrated every day. It is for this reason that the NHBRC partnered with Tshiala Construction and Montagu Homes to bring change to the JS Mpanza Primary School in Diepkloof, Soweto. The project is part of […]
The National Home Builder Registration Council (NHBRC) will be providing home building training to 91 unemployed young people in Nelson Mandela Bay in a bid to improve their employability and participation in the construction industry. The skills training programme which starts on 01 February 2016 focuses on various disciplines such as bricklaying, plastering, roofing and […]
The R150 million rain water harvesting tank project in the Southern and Northern parts of KwaZulu-Natal is finally complete. More than 26 000 water tanks have been installed to service 27 500 households in the province The National Home Builders Registration Council (NHBRC) and KwaZulu-Natal Department of Human Settlements launched the project in 2011 to […]
On Tuesday, 15 December 2015 Christmas came early as the Deputy Minister of Human Settlements, Ms Zoliswa Kota-Fredericks handed over two houses to long-serving and deserving staff members in Soshanguve and Hebron, City of Tshwane. The first beneficiary Ms. Mokgadi Meriam Hutama, who started working as a contract worker in 2006 with the Department of […]
Historic agreement set to bring South African building inspections in line with global best practice
Johannesburg – An agreement signed today between South Africaâs housing regulator and construction professionalsâ body will mean that housing inspectors will now be required to register with a professional body in order to carry out their work. According to National Home Builders Registrations Council (NHBRC) CEO Mongezi Mnyani, the agreement signed between it and the […]
The National Home Builders Registration Council (NHBRC) has gone live with the SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. This is a significant technology investment that will bring dramatic improvements to the way that the NHBRC carries out its mandate. Since going live on the 2nd November 2015, some of our customers have experienced delays in […]
The newly-appointed NHBRC Council has developed and agreed on a set of strategic priorities for its term of office with the Shareholder, the Ministry of Human Settlements. This includes strategic capacitation of the organisation, a clean audit, review of the operating model, social transformation strategy, review of the legislation, visibility and accessibility and being a […]