Beneficiaries of the N2 Gateway housing project in Langa on the Cape Flats will have to wait for a longer period, as politicians try to out manoeuvre each other on the running of the project. The City of Cape Town under the Democratic Alliance (DA)-led multi-party coalition has been kicked out of the project.
A forum of the national housing minister and MEC’s has blamed Helen Zille, the Cape Town mayor, of undermining intergovernmental relations, by raising concerns around the project in the media. Richard Dyantyi, the Western Cape housing minister, has described the forum’s decision as an attempt to prevent the project from becoming a political football.
Dyantyi says they did recognise that things turned differently immediately after elections, when the city was in different hands and thinks that its an unfortunate thing. “Instead of an intensified co-operative governance issues, they are having a lot of issues being played out in the media without those being discussed in proper intergovernmental relations structures.”
Project to be audited
Zille, who was kicked out of the project after she halted all payments for the project, says contracts were not signed, budgets were overshot by millions of rands, and it there seems to have been some corruption in the process. This is the reason why they are doing a forensic audit, she says.
Zille says she accepts the fact that national government has taken over the project, however, she says government must also pay for problems caused by the project. The N2 Gateway housing project was created to decrease the maze of shacks along the highway. SABC
A forum of the national housing minister and MEC’s has blamed Helen Zille, the Cape Town mayor, of undermining intergovernmental relations, by raising concerns around the project in the media. Richard Dyantyi, the Western Cape housing minister, has described the forum’s decision as an attempt to prevent the project from becoming a political football.
Dyantyi says they did recognise that things turned differently immediately after elections, when the city was in different hands and thinks that its an unfortunate thing. “Instead of an intensified co-operative governance issues, they are having a lot of issues being played out in the media without those being discussed in proper intergovernmental relations structures.”
Project to be audited
Zille, who was kicked out of the project after she halted all payments for the project, says contracts were not signed, budgets were overshot by millions of rands, and it there seems to have been some corruption in the process. This is the reason why they are doing a forensic audit, she says.
Zille says she accepts the fact that national government has taken over the project, however, she says government must also pay for problems caused by the project. The N2 Gateway housing project was created to decrease the maze of shacks along the highway. SABC
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