moladi Plastic Formwork Construction Technology | Low Cost Housing Building System

moladi-Industrialised-Construction-System-Namibia The latest available figures I could find indicate that Namibia’s housing backlog is now more than 300,000 units . A June 2026 parliamentary document refers to a backlog of more than 300,000 homes. moladi-Industrialised-Construction-System What about the monthly payment? Here is the important distinction: Average national house price: approximately N$1.44 million in Q1 2026 . Windhoek: housing affordability is even more problematic. The figure you mentioned earlier — N$17,491 per month — is the average Windhoek mortgage instalment compared with an average monthly income of approximately N$13,560 . This means the mortgage instalment is approximately 129% of average monthly income — effectively more than the entire income. Even more concerning: FNB/Bank of Namibia data indicate that approximately 75% of Namibia’s workers earn less than N$5,000 per month , and the Bank of Namibia has indicated that approximately 70% of the pop...

  moladi industrialised housing production method   Why moladi? Nearly 40 years ago, moladi asked a simple question: Why are we still building millions of homes one brick at a time when almost every other industry has embraced industrialisation? That question led to the development of a South African innovation that reimagined the way homes are built. Instead of laying individual bricks, moladi industrialises the construction process by using reusable, lightweight, interlocking plastic formwork into which a specially formulated aerated mortar is poured. Overnight, the walls cure into a steel-reinforced monolithic structure . The formwork is then stripped and reused for the next house. The result? ✅ Faster construction ✅ Lower production costs ✅ Less material waste ✅ Consistent quality ✅ Local materials ✅ Rapid training of unskilled labour ✅ Employment creation and skills transfer ✅ Quality homes built at scale But moladi is more than a construction system. It...

  Price of affordable housing or production of affordable housing   Price of affordable housing or production of affordable housing Price of affordable housing or production of affordable housing Perhaps one of the limitations of the affordable housing debate is that it focuses primarily on the price of housing rather than the production of housing. If housing remains a commodity delivered through conventional procurement systems, affordability will always be constrained by the same forces of land valuation, speculation, capital concentration, and limited productive capacity. What if the conversation shifted from affordable housing to productive housing? Housing demand represents one of the largest untapped economic opportunities in the world. Every house requires labour, skills, materials, manufacturing, logistics, and enterprise. The question is whether communities participate in that production or simply consume the final product. At hashtag moladi , we have found that hou...

moladi -Innovative  Building  Technologies - IBT  Summit   -  H uman Settlements Minister  Thembi Simelane As of February 2026, the South African Department of Human Settlements is in the process of scaling up the implementation of Innovative Building Technologies (moladi IBT) to accelerate housing delivery, with a specific focus on climate resilience and rapid construction.   Key developments regarding the implementation of IBTs under Minister of Human Settlements Thembi Simelane include: Minister of Human Settlements Thembi Simelane Mandatory IBT Allocation:  The Department will require provinces and metropolitan municipalities to allocate a minimum of  2% of their 2026/27 housing grants  to IBT-related projects. IBT Summit (Feb 2026):  A national IBT Summit is scheduled for  3–4 February 2026  at the Nasrec Expo Centre in Johannesburg to formalize the mainstreaming of these technologies to eradicate informal settlements...

  Hennie Botes invited to present moladi to Housing Portfolio Committee at Parliament moladi invited to present to Housing Portfolio Committee at Parliament moladi invited to present to Housing Portfolio Committee at Parliament Housing Portfolio Committee - moladi Presentation Hennie Botes - CEO of moladi and Dr Bongani Mabizela, Acting Board Chairperson -  Agrément South Africa Board moladi inventor and CEO, Hennie Botes , was invited to present moladi to the Housing Portfolio Committee at Parliament as an approved  Alternative Building Technologies, established in 1986,  together with Agrément South Africa and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Department Human Settlements   Hennie was complemented with the success of moladi in 28 countries and steps will be taken by the #DepartmentHumanSettlements to implement in South Africa  Alternative Building Technologies Alternative building technologies (ABTs) also referred to as offe...