The MEC for Local Government and Housing will visit the construction sites in Johannesburg and Tshwane. This follows an outcry that contractors had pulled out of construction sites. The MEC further received complaints that there were many finished houses which were unoccupied and some without water connections. The visits will conclude in Tshwane Mamelodi were the MEC will have a meeting with stakeholders.
The visits are also aimed at looking deeper into issues of housing delivery and the available stock which is ready to be allocated to communities such that houses do not remain empty after they have been completed by contractors. He will be accompanied by councillors and officials to all the visits in today.
The visits will take place as follows:
Tuesday, 16 March 2010
Johannesburg site visit: MEC, acting Head of Department (HOD), Chief Operating Officer (COO) and other officials
09h00 to 10h00: Princes Plot
10h30 to 11h30: Doornkop
12h30 to 19h00: Ivory Park
Tshwane/Metsweding site visit: MEC, acting Head of Department (HOD), Chief Operating Officer (COO) and other officials
14h00 to 15h00: GaRankuwa X24
15h30 to 16h30: Slovo Ville
17h00 to 18h00: Kanana Village
Meeting with Mamelodi: MEC, acting Head of Department (HOD), Chief Operating Officer (COO) and other stakeholders
18h00 to 19h00: Mamelodi
For more information please contact:
Fred Mokoko
Cell: 082 447 8407
Tel: 011 355 4016
Issued by: Department of Local Government and Housing, Gauteng provincial Government
16 March 2010
