Responding to the plight of impoverished and vulnerable (elderly, disabled) families in the rural OR Tambo district, MEC Nombulelo Mabandla will hand over a house to an elderly grandmother from Gomatana location in Mqanduli who will be celebrating her 99th year birthday on Sunday, 14 February 2010. The MEC will also handover another house to an impoverished family currently leaving in a shack with four children and two grandchildren in Ngolo location Mthatha.
The handovers will be done on Sunday morning starting in Ngolo location then having the main event in Mqanduli to celebrate the birthday of the grandmother with a house handover.
The families were in an exceptional housing need and emergency assistance had to be provided by the department with provision of homes. The Mqanduli family leaves in a rondavel and will occupy their new home on Sunday, while the Sbangweni mother leaves with her four children and two grand children in a shack with leaking roofs and unbearable living conditions. The MEC will handover keys to their new homes on Sunday in a week where government is celebrating 20 years of the release of former state President, Nelson Mandela who pioneered and introduced the government built homes for impoverished families in 1994.
The handover of the houses to these families is a response by government to assist needy vulnerable groups in the rural parts of the province which begun last year with handing over of temporary structures to a blind family in Mdantsane, orphans in Parkside, building and handover of a home to a bedridden Jantjies family who was relocated by the department to Jeffrey’s bay in a government built beautiful well furnished home
Issued by: Department of Housing, Eastern Cape Provincial Government
11 February 2010
