Western Cape Housing MEC Bonginkosi Madikizela on Tuesday said government would have to spend more than R33 million on temporary relocation structures for Joe Slovo families if they were evicted from their current site.
The MEC announced the thousands of people living in the informal settlement would not be removed.
The decision is despite a Constitutional Court ruling in June that government could evict some of the families.
Instead, Madikizela said they would all be given first preference on a planned housing development in the area.
He said relocating the families to Delft would have been problematic for people who worked or went to school nearby.
“We have discovered that 32 percent of people living in Joe Slovo are working, and out of that 32 percent, 57 percent are actually commuting by train, and there’s no train in Delft,” said the MEC.
- Eyewitness News
The MEC announced the thousands of people living in the informal settlement would not be removed.
The decision is despite a Constitutional Court ruling in June that government could evict some of the families.
Instead, Madikizela said they would all be given first preference on a planned housing development in the area.
He said relocating the families to Delft would have been problematic for people who worked or went to school nearby.
“We have discovered that 32 percent of people living in Joe Slovo are working, and out of that 32 percent, 57 percent are actually commuting by train, and there’s no train in Delft,” said the MEC.
- Eyewitness News
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