A team of administrators has been appointed to run Eastern Cape’s housing department after a government report showed that the department was failing to meet its mandate.
Pretoria has warned the Eastern Cape government that it might take control of the department if the situation does not improve within a year.
Government spokesman Themba Maseko said no discussion had taken place in the national cabinet about the future of Eastern Cape housing MEC Thoko Xasa, the political head of the department.
Late last year, Housing Minister Lindiwe Sisulu warned that “somebody’s head will be cut off” if the department remained incapable of spending its budget.
She took the R500-million the provincial department had failed to spend and gave it to Western Cape and North West.
Xasa responded by announcing a new low-cost housing project earlier this year.
But it would appear that Sisulu is not satisfied.
A report presented to the cabinet on Wednesday said that housing delivery in the Eastern Cape had declined from 37000 houses a year in 2005 to only 11750 in the past 12 months.
Maseko said the cabinet’s decision to assign a team of administrators to the provincial department was in line with the Housing Act, and that it would accelerate the provision of housing in Eastern Cape. - The Times
Pretoria has warned the Eastern Cape government that it might take control of the department if the situation does not improve within a year.
Government spokesman Themba Maseko said no discussion had taken place in the national cabinet about the future of Eastern Cape housing MEC Thoko Xasa, the political head of the department.
Late last year, Housing Minister Lindiwe Sisulu warned that “somebody’s head will be cut off” if the department remained incapable of spending its budget.
She took the R500-million the provincial department had failed to spend and gave it to Western Cape and North West.
Xasa responded by announcing a new low-cost housing project earlier this year.
But it would appear that Sisulu is not satisfied.
A report presented to the cabinet on Wednesday said that housing delivery in the Eastern Cape had declined from 37000 houses a year in 2005 to only 11750 in the past 12 months.
Maseko said the cabinet’s decision to assign a team of administrators to the provincial department was in line with the Housing Act, and that it would accelerate the provision of housing in Eastern Cape. - The Times
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