Sunday, May 21, 2006

Housing project slow says Cape shack dwellers

Residents and backyard dwellers of Langa on the Cape Flats have voiced their dissatisfaction with the slow pace of the allocation of houses at the N2 Gateway housing project.

The would-be beneficiaries are part of thousands of residents of the Joe Slovo informal settlement whose shacks were destroyed by devastating fires two years ago. Initially, the victims were scheduled to move in by the beginning of this month.

Xolile Gophe, the area’s ward councillor, says the contractors will have completed the construction of phase one of the project by the end of this month. He says the developers would be moving out of the site soon, and the first batch of people should be taking occupation by the end of June. - SABC

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