MARITE – During his community based fact finding mission that is aimed at improving the lives of people who are affected by poverty, lack of housing and food, the provincial secretary of COPE, Mr Sizile Ndlovu came across a number of families that have lost hope in the government of the day.
This is because they accuse the government of being selective in granting RDP houses and jobs to the members of the community in Marite near Bushbuckridge.
Ndlovu was nearly reduced to tears when he discovered one of the families that have lost hope because they were cramped in a small makeshift house that is forced to accommodate all seven members of the family that include five children, the father and the mother.
“The makeshift house was as bad as a dingy dimly lit windowless house, the size of an average family toilet and was definitely not one that anyone could expect seven people to be crammed in. The other one was a child-headed family where poverty hits you straight in the face as you approach their small house,” said Ndlovu.
