HUMAN Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale yesterday has vowed to take building hijackers head-on and "restore the dignity of Johannesburg as the capital of Gauteng".
He was speaking in the city centre after giving the thumbs up to a previously hijacked building, Cavendish Chambers, which was bought three years ago and renovated at a total cost of R40million.
"Street by street, block by block, it should be our number one priority to renew cities. We are coming for building hijackers. We are meeting the Hawks and Bheki Cele to see how we can deal with this issue," he said.
About R33million was supplied by the National Housing Finance Corporation for the 13-story building that has 187 units. The NHFC has already spent about R150million on similar projects.
Gauteng housing MEC Kgaogelo Lekgoro said it was time people took ownership of the inner city and improved it.
- Sowetan
He was speaking in the city centre after giving the thumbs up to a previously hijacked building, Cavendish Chambers, which was bought three years ago and renovated at a total cost of R40million.
"Street by street, block by block, it should be our number one priority to renew cities. We are coming for building hijackers. We are meeting the Hawks and Bheki Cele to see how we can deal with this issue," he said.
About R33million was supplied by the National Housing Finance Corporation for the 13-story building that has 187 units. The NHFC has already spent about R150million on similar projects.
Gauteng housing MEC Kgaogelo Lekgoro said it was time people took ownership of the inner city and improved it.
- Sowetan
5 comments:
Ehm this building jacking started when...?
Tokyo Sexwale was the Premier of Gauteng...
The building I lived in was jacked!
Now government is going to jack it back?
No Less the same man that allowed it to happen under his watch or plan?
where's the truthful journalism in this?
R40 Million? to up grade. and maintain?... and how much is the rental - is it still low cost housing 'for the people' or just rental stock?
Seeing as the NHFC paid for this what dividends to we the funders of the NHFC see?
Every cell in my body is twitching the more I think about this... it aches it screams daar's 'n droll in die drink water...
but the I see no one else drawing any N2 Gateway comparisons...
thubelisha ?>????????
this will turn out to be a tax funded maintenance issue not unlike the new soccer stadiums...
and it's being billed as "low cost housing delivery".......
it is NOTHING OF THE SORT!!!
It's government funded upgrades and rental collection from those who can afford it.
Not low cost housing delivery!
Nothing like their recent and oh-so-forgotten 'Breaking NEW Ground' campaign.
In the recent past hostels were given a lick of paint and tabled as housing units delivered before parliament and then placed on huge billboards all around the city and paraded as a LARGE number of housing units delivered...
The next billboard will include these middle class rental units as housing delivered to 'our people' or 'my people'
Not RENTED too our people.. ie milking them while promising them something else and then lying about the result.
and my eye will twitch and my stomach will knot and I'll want to tear the poster down because of it's lies, and cost. I expect the same response from the TV advert...
but that's just me...
no one else seems to care
So with the R150 Billion spent there are still only going to be 700 rental units...
or 4x 13 floor high rise upgrades
mmm N2 gateway 800 somming units...
Inner city prototype 800 somming units..
This delivery rate and cost is not going to remove the "pandokkies" / Informal Human Settlements / Squatter Camps / shanty towns / hazardous overcrowded unhealthy shacks;
please stop me if I'm wrong...
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