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Umhlaba Consulting Group (Pty) Ltd is a multi-disciplinary consultancy specialising in spatial planning, land use management, and development facilitation with a land-legal focus. The objective of our work is to generate appropriate and sustainable solutions to the complex development challenges facing South Africa.
UMHLABA Consulting Group (Pty) Ltd. was established in 2003 and specialises in a range of consultancy services, including:
Ownership & key staff members
UMHLABA Consulting Group (Pty) Ltd is a registered company owned by five shareholders: Dr Luvuyo Wotshela, SETPLAN EL Trust (represented by Mr Piet Jonas and Mr Johan Jonas), and SETPLAN (Pty) Ltd. represented by Mr Carel Olivier and Mr Brendan Hindes.
The owners of the UMHLABA Group have a combined work experience in spatial and development planning and allied disciplines of over 60 years.
For over 20 years, Luvuyo has been conducting research on land reform, livelihoods and community politics in South Africa.
With NGO association during the 1990s and an academic career up to the present, Luvuyo has been involved in numerous forums, discussing land reform and governance policy for post-apartheid South Africa.
He has also participated in a number of commissioned researches, particularly on land reform and livelihoods, community networks, land rights and restitution in South Africa.
Luvuyo has written and published extensively on the South African history of settlements and their forms of governance. He recently finalized book on the politics of resettlement and change in late twentieth to early twenty first century Eastern Cape.
In 2012 Luvuyo was appointed head of the National Heritage and Cultural Studies Centre for the University of Fort Hare. Having joined Umhlaba in 2003, Luvuyo’s work focuses on research support on Umhlaba projects.
Luvuyo has a DPhil (Doctorate) in Modern History.
With 29 years’ experience, mainly in the fields of spatial planning and project management, Piet has acted as lead town and regional planning consultant and project manager on numerous assignments ranging from capital subsidy grant housing projects through to large commercial and mixed land use developments to golfing estates.
He also specialises in land development applications and other statutory planning procedures.
TOWN PLANNING
REGIONAL PLANNING
SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT
LAND USE MANAGEMENT
Prior to joining Umhlaba in 2003, Piet gained seven years’ work experience as a planner in Provincial Government before becoming a private consultant in 1996.
Piet is also a Director of Setplan (East London).
Piet has a Bachelor’s Degree in Town & Regional Planning.
Johan has 25 years’ experience in the fields of spatial, strategic and statutory planning and specialises in the preparation of SPLUMA compliant Land Use Management Schemes and also assisted DRDLR with the SPLUMA roll-out in the Eastern Cape.
He has also managed numerous multi-disciplinary project teams on a range of land development and planning projects.
SPATIAL PLANNING
STRATEGIC PLANNING
STATUTORY PLANNING
SPLUMA SPECIALIST
Other project experience includes planning and land use management policy formulation, development feasibility assessments and statutory approval processes for a range of infrastructure and land development projects.
Johan is also a Director of Setplan (East London).
Johan has a Bachelor’s Degree in Town and Regional Planning
Brendan is a Town Planning graduate from the University of Pretoria (1991) and has 20 years of experience in both public and private practice.
Brendan has been a director in a private planning consultancy for 16 years.His key areas of expertise include project facilitation and co-ordination, urban development control and spatial development planning and strategy.
He has undertaken the preparation of numerous Integrated Development Plans, Spatial Development Framework Plan and Land Audit projects at various levels of government.
URBAN DEVELOPMENT CONTROL
SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT PLANNING
These have provided experience in the preparation, implementation, and practical application of strategic plans, strategies, and policies at the local government level. Brendan’s key areas of expertise include: Rural Development Planning; Urban Development Control; Local Municipal Strategy and Policy Formulation; Spatial Development Planning; Local Government Integrated Development Planning; Project Facilitation and Co-ordination; Municipal Planning and Administration
Brendan has a Bachelor’s Degree in Town and Regional Planning
Carel is a registered Professional GISc Practitioner (PLATO: PGP 1268) and a registered Professional Planner (SACPLAN: A/1296/2004).
He has 18 years’ experience in the implementation of GIS based, integrated property, asset and valuation information systems.
Carel is the co-founder of OVVIO Software and has been
GIS SPECIALIST
DEVELOPMENT & IMPLEMENTATION of OVVIO Software
TOWN PLANNING
involved in the implementation and project management of numerous GIS based data capturing, analysis and integration projects and solutions throughout Southern Africa.
Carel has a Master’s Degree in Town and Regional Planning
OUR MISSION STATEMENT
The Umhlaba Consulting Group is dedicated to the principles of accuracy, integrity, and social, economic, and environmental sustainability in the drive for excellence in urban and rural development, integrated policy and planning solutions and primary research.
Physical Address
4 Pearce Street, Berea, EAST LONDON, 5241
Postal Address
PO Box 7609, East London, 5200
Tel: +27 (0) 43 721 1554
Fax: +27 (0) 86 513 4471
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