Thursday, June 22, 2006

NO Development without open transparent public participation and consultation!

InternAfrica has Joined FEDUP - in this monkeybusiness of local or national housing.

This has become a sideshow of note: Restraining our severe urge to comment harshly:

Gateway not supposed to follow rules - MEC

Housing and Local Government MEC Richard Dyantyi has shrugged off investigations by the DA-led City of Cape Town administration into N2 Gateway tenders, saying it was not intended that they would “follow normal bureaucracy”.

The need for houses was so urgent that the project had to be “fast-tracked”.

When the city council stopped playing “games”, the provincial and national governments’ doors would be “open for them to come back”, Dyantyi said during a debate in the National Council of Provinces.

“So what if work began before contracts were signed? This is a pilot project that we are testing in this province. So, if it happened that we put the first brick down before the contract was signed, so what?

“The houses are standing.”…

“The N2 project is not funds-driven, it is needs-driven,” Dyantyi said.

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