The housing corruption involving some 2,000 government officials is one of the most disgraceful public sins of 2010.
Minister of human settlements, Tokyo Sexwale, said in August this year that syndicates selling and leasing government housing were to be investigated. Numerous government officials, notably in Gauteng, North West and KwaZulu-Natal, are allegedly benefiting underhand from these deals.
The authorities' housing promises pose another fiasco. Sexwale announced in April this year that the housing backlog even exceeded the backlog in 1994: the figure has swelled from 1,5 million in 1994 to 2,1 million at present. Meanwhile the need for housing is growing daily; the number of informal settlements has already reached the 2,700-mark, of which at least 70 are inhabited by white people in shanty towns.
- Moneyweb
Minister of human settlements, Tokyo Sexwale, said in August this year that syndicates selling and leasing government housing were to be investigated. Numerous government officials, notably in Gauteng, North West and KwaZulu-Natal, are allegedly benefiting underhand from these deals.
The authorities' housing promises pose another fiasco. Sexwale announced in April this year that the housing backlog even exceeded the backlog in 1994: the figure has swelled from 1,5 million in 1994 to 2,1 million at present. Meanwhile the need for housing is growing daily; the number of informal settlements has already reached the 2,700-mark, of which at least 70 are inhabited by white people in shanty towns.
- Moneyweb
The other, would clearly be the lack of capacity in electricity, sewage and water bulk infrastructure not being planned for, thus affecting or rather bringing all further human settlement development to a grinding halt.
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