Mpumalanga Safety, Security and Liaison, MEC Vusi Shongwe will tomorrow hand over a house to a cervical cancer victim.
The house has been built for the ailing single mother of six Ms Funeka Sambo whose plight appeared in a local Lowveld newspaper (Mpumalanga News). The newspaper quoted her as an ailing woman who was battling to find a government house after having been on a waiting list since 2008.
After reading about Ms Sambo, a Mpumalanga self emerging contractor Mr Sipho Busani decided to build and donate the house in honour of his late brother who died of prostate cancer early this year.
A two bed-roomed worth well-over R120 000 with an open space sitting room and a kitchen, shower and a toilet was built near the mud-house Ms Sambo had been living in.
According to Busani, Sambo’s house has been built in an area which does not have water although the mud-house had been electrified. He has moreover donated a 2.500 litre water-tank in order for Sambo to have access to clean water and be able to utilise her built-in toilet.
The media is invited to a hand over that will take place as follows:
Date: Tuesday, 10 May 2011
Time: 12h30
Venue: Matsulu, Emkhwakheni
Enquiries:
Joseph Mabuza
Tel: 013 766 4055
Cell: 082 678 1450
Source: Mpumalanga Department of Safety, Security and Liaison
