Residents of informal settlements to get houses
...but this can happen only in March next year.
Residents of informal settlements in and around Brandvlei who are registered for RDP houses will be able to move into their homes as of March next year.
This was announced by Jacob Mamabolo, MEC for Human Settlements in Gauteng who says the houses, which have been completed already, will be handed over to beneficiaries only then. He says a contract with a service provider has been completed and that the houses already are certified.
Initially, the herald published a damning report about more than 200 of the RDP houses in question worth approximately R15 million not being allocated to their rightful beneficiaries. Those houses were being vandalised and had become drug havens.
The herald also reported that the houses were without window frames and that litter such as used condoms was found all over the place.
According to the DA’s spokesperson on Housing in Gauteng, Merwyn Cirota, the MEC cannot plead ignorance when it comes to the housing saga. He says he will take the matter further.
“We cannot accept that a completed housing development has not been handed over to the community when there is such a heavy housing burden on South Africa. Therefore I will submit follow-up questions to the MEC to establish the exact reasons for the delay and why residents will be able to move in only next year.
“I also will be raising questions about allegations of corruption within the Human Settlements Portfolio Committee as they deserve to be investigated as well,” says Cirota
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