Joburg Mayor Herman Mashaba delivers RDP units in Diepsloot
RIVERSIDE VIEW – Joburg Mayor Herman Mashaba is excited to deliver RDP units to the residents of Riverside View.
The City of Johannesburg mayor Herman Mashaba together with the MMC for Housing, councillor Meshack van Wyk delivered RDP homes to deserving beneficiaries in Riverside View, Diepsloot.
Mashaba said 64 RDP units in the area will be delivered to new owners from today and tomorrow. He said delivering houses to the residents of Johannesburg is one of the priorities of the coalition government in Joburg.
“I have mentioned this on many occasions, but our city is sitting with an extensive housing backlog exceeding 300 000 units,” said Mashaba.
“Delivering affordable housing, worthy of our people, at a swifter rate is uppermost on the list of priorities for this multi-party government. I am grateful, too, for the work being put in by all our stakeholders – including property developers in the private sector – in ensuring that we turn the inner-city into a construction site and transform the many available buildings in Johannesburg into quality accommodation.”
The mayor said he was happy to see the smiles on the faces of the new RDP owners.
“This can be a punishing job at the best of times, yet seeing the unbridled joy on the faces of some of the beneficiaries I met, this morning, makes it very worthwhile. I met two women, in particular, Mrs Juia Dankie, who had been living in a shack since 1992 (having registered for an RDP home in 1996), and Mrs Kunene who had been living in a one-roomed shack with four children and her husband.
“Mrs Kunene had been on the waiting list for the past 19 years. I helped them both pack up their belongings so that they could move into their new homes.”
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