The provincial housing department is to crack down on beneficiaries of RDP houses who are selling the houses and returning to live in shacks.Housing MEC Richard Dyantyi said authorities would be starting with Du Noon.
"We need to break that and we are starting with Du Noon," he said Dyantyi.
| 'We need to break that and we are starting with Du Noon' |
Challenging the MEC, some residents said unemployment and poverty forced them to sell their houses. A resident who declined to be named said Dyantyi was fighting a losing battle as many residents preferred living in shacks.
Dyantyi bemoaned a situation where these residents, out of ignorance, were being tricked into selling their houses for less than R40,000.
"Even if you are poor and unemployed, it does not improve your situation to sell your house for such an amount," he said.
"They want to live a high and expensive life and they spend all their money on drinking - three weeks later all the money is finished."
But Dyantyi said more houses were needed. The property developers, Du Noon Flats Association, said whatever was done, the population of the area outgrew housing supply. - Cape Argus
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Afraid as the move to re-construct the old wire house provided under the RDP to me in 1998 with a main door and two bed-rooms and main room which cn be used as a kitchen and a sitting room.Now the RDP has build two houses in my yard without communicating that with me and on the 15th/01/2010 placed a new family unknown and not related with me in the same yard. When asked the councilor Tholakele in phase 3 of imbali 13 she indicated
that she was by no means to assist me as that was not her fault but that of the previous councilor.
May you nplease follw this up as there is a lot to talk about on this matter and stress is mounting to leave with a shared yard unequal to all other who we share and made same application before /1998.
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