The Western Cape MEC of Human Settlements, Bonginkosi Madikizela, will lay the first bricks for houses for two beneficiaries with special needs in Ilitha Park, Khayelitsha, today.
The two beneficiaries, Mr Dlamini Mdingiswayo and Mr Ralf Miggels, have approved subsidies and Corobrick has made a commitment to supply all the bricks for the two houses on land supplied by the department.
Mr Mdingiswayo is a disabled person who is married and has a son who is 18 years old. Mr Mdingswayo has one leg amputated and is wheel chair bound. His wife also suffered a stroke approximately 15 years ago. They are all staying in a shack in Khayelitsha. The son is writing his Matric exams this year.
Mr Miggel was involved in a motor vehicle accident in 1997. He sustained a spinal cord injury and is now a C5 tetraplegic which means he is paralysed in the arms and legs. Mr Miggel is currently staying on the third floor of rented council flat in Elsies River. As a disabled person he encounters extreme difficulties to get to the ground floor and back to his flat. Mr Miggels wife is his caretaker and they both survive on a government disability grant.
There will be photo and interview opportunities.
Date: Monday, 10 December 2012
Time: 11h00.
Place: 21 and 23 Nkenjane Street, iLitha Park, Khayelitsha
Directions: From Cape Town. Take the N2 towards Somerset West. Take the Mew Way turn off, and then turn right at the T-junction. Go back over the highway. Drive straight, past Spine Road, the first left onto Sinqolamthi Street. Take the first left, and then first right. At the T-junction, turn left. The houses will be up on your right.
For media enquiries:
Bruce Oom, Spokesman for MEC Bonginkosi Madikizela
Cell: 072 4655 177
Tel: 021 483 6622
Fax: 021 483 3888
