Olga Nonhlanhla Mayekiso (84), Rebecca Takalani Mulaudzi (31), Johannes Dingaan Mokoena (71), Kate Malitaba Sithole (80) and Naledzani Mulibana (71) are five deserving families that were allocated to their new fully subsidised housing units in Lufhereng.
The Lufhereng Integrated Housing Development has given hope to many applicants of the 96/97 era – who have been waiting for houses all along.
Their lives have now been changed
Executive mayor Parks Tau was there to handover the keys to five out of 45 beneficiaries.
Some of the beneficiaries’ profiles are as follows:
Mayekiso
- She originally from KwaZulu Natal in Bergville and she came to Joburg in 1967 looking for greener pastures
- She has two children and four grandchildren.
- She applied for an RDP house on February 17, 1996
- Ever since, she’s been subletting around Soweto, and hip hopping from one family home to another
Mulaudzi
- Was born in Duthini Village in Limpopo
- She is the second child amongst six siblings and came to Joburg looking for greener pastures and settled in Doornkop Plot number 102
- She worked for Ms Khoza’s chicken business in Doornkop for a number of years
- The Lufhereng Integrated Development is now planned on the Doornkop Farms on which she worked
- She met a live-in boyfriend on the Doornkop Farms, who supported her until he passed away in 2014 and they had a boy child together
- When Lufhereng project started, she was moved to the Temporary Residential Units, from her abode to make way for the city’s Lufhereng Integrated Housing Development
- She later met the father of her second born child. Her daughter was born on February 3
- She gave birth to her child in the abolition facilities under very terrible conditions in the Lufhereng Temporary Village
- The city’s project team had vowed to make effort to restore the dignity of Rebecca and her beautiful daughter
Mokoena
- Was born on December 16, 1945
- He resided in Lufhereng Temporary Village, unit 3 on a temporary basis, and has been waiting for his Fully Subsidised Housing Unit
Sithole
- Was born April 17, 1937, in Nigel West Rand
- She was born on the farms and came to Joburg looking for a job
- She has eight children, of which four, have passed away
- She worked as a domestic worker until her pension
- She then sought refuge in an Informal settlement called Bhambayi Snake Park Region C
- She too is an applicant of 1996/97
Mulibana
- She’s a pensioner and lives with her disabled son
- She is a hawker making ends meet by selling vegetables
- Whilst away the kid stays alone in a rented garage
