About 200 volunteers who have helped build houses in Wallacedene claim Housing MEC Richard Dyantyi promised them jobs, but then failed to hire them.
This comes after Dyantyi launched the 1,000 Volunteer Housing Programme in February.
When the Cape Argus visited the area on Tuesday, the volunteers held up placards and sang freedom songs.
The volunteers from Nyanga, Langa, Delft, Khayelitsha, Wallacedene and Mfuleni, include builders, painters, bricklayers and carpenters.
Volunteer Nokwanda Mathanda said Dyantyi also told volunteers they would get scholarships for their children.
"There were bushes when we started the project in January. We have cleared them and have built more than 215 houses," she said.
Mathanda said Dyantyi had failed to honour his promises to the volunteer workforce.
Dyantyi's spokesman, Vusi Tshose, confirmed that the project had been launched in February but denied that people were promised jobs.
Dyantyi has been promoting the People's Housing Programme (PHP) which was based on voluntarism and had valued the role played by volunteers to ensure the programme was a success, said Tshose.
Tshose said about 277 houses had been completed in Wallacedene and the volunteers would be moved to a new site in Kew Town. - Cape Argus
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