Minister since: 2009 - 2013
Problems inherited: His predecessor, Lindiwe Sisulu, launched the N2 Gateway project, which she termed the “biggest housing project ever undertaken by any government”, in 2005. It became Sexwale’s responsibility. Still incomplete after eight years, it will now be passed on to new Human Settlements Minister Connie September.
Failures:
Sexwale has previously termed his portfolio a “daunting challenge”, with a housing backlog of more than 2 million units, affecting about 8 million people. With a 2030 deadline to remove the backlog, the department had to provide 200 000 houses a year, a target it could not meet. Sexwale admitted that the bill to fix the problems was R50 billion – nearly twice his annual budget.
Sanitation has proved to be a major political point scorer ahead of next year’s election, and Sexwale earlier this year admitted that his department, with a sanitation backlog of more than 2 million households, was unlikely to meet the December 2014 deadline to eradicate the bucket system. He attributed this to poor performance by municipalities, and growing numbers of migrant workers...
- IOL
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