...Chaos erupted in Delft this week after the Cape High Court ruled that the invading families had to leave. A heavy contingent of police, driving Nyalas, blasted people with rubber bullets and stun grenades. Belongings were ripped from homes and piled on a nearby open stretch of land
At the launch of the project in 2006, Housing Minister Lindiwe Sisulu said: “The N2 corridor provides us with the opportunity to address a whole range of injustices of the past, starting with the disinherited communities of District Six ... to the dislocated back-yarders who have waited for years for an opportunity to own a house; to the informal settlers of this area who took the decision to clear the bush and put up their shacks.”
But, two years later, Rose and others like her are caught in a maelstrom of misery and anger swirling around Gateway — which, together with other housing schemes in the province, are only denting an official housing backlog of 380,000 families. The national housing backlog stands at 2.2- million...
How Gateway homes are allocated:
PRINCE Xhanti Sigcawu, general manager of Thubelisha, the project manager of the N2 Gateway Pilot Project, said allocation worked like this:
- The Times
At the launch of the project in 2006, Housing Minister Lindiwe Sisulu said: “The N2 corridor provides us with the opportunity to address a whole range of injustices of the past, starting with the disinherited communities of District Six ... to the dislocated back-yarders who have waited for years for an opportunity to own a house; to the informal settlers of this area who took the decision to clear the bush and put up their shacks.”
But, two years later, Rose and others like her are caught in a maelstrom of misery and anger swirling around Gateway — which, together with other housing schemes in the province, are only denting an official housing backlog of 380,000 families. The national housing backlog stands at 2.2- million...
How Gateway homes are allocated:
PRINCE Xhanti Sigcawu, general manager of Thubelisha, the project manager of the N2 Gateway Pilot Project, said allocation worked like this:
- The Times
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