The Western Cape Government Minister of Human Settlements, Bonginkosi Madikizela, and Social Development Minister Albert Fritz, will help demolish the shack of the Maswati family on the morning of Freedom Day, 27 April 2012.
The Maswati family will receive a subsidised house, and construction of the new house will begin on 2 May 2012. Recently some members of the Maswati family moved to one of the houses in the Nelson Mandela Legacy Project in Blue Downs, with one of the family members being a 12 year old boy with lung cancer. The move was celebrated by Ministers Madikizela and Fritz, and featured on SABC Morning Live.
However, other members of the extended family still lived in the shack, and were unable to be accommodated in the Legacy Project house. After visiting the family shack, Minister Madikizela pledged to help the rest of the family get a proper house.
The Maswati family has been included in the Mzimhlope PHP project in Site C, Khayelitsha, and will receive a subsidy for the house to be built.
will be large enough to accommodate the remaining family members, and will take around 4 weeks to build. The extended family will stay with friends and relatives until the house is ready.
Date: 28 April 2012
Time: 06h00
Place: Xola Rd, Site C; Khayalitsha, Cape Town.
Directions:
Travel along Settlers Way/N2 towards Somerset West. Take the Mew Way turn-off, then turn right to cross over the N2. Drive around 500 metres, then turn right onto the M9 (Lansdowne Road). After another 500m, turn right onto Solomon Tshuku Avenue. Drive around 850 m, taking the thirdright onto Nolubabalo Street. Take the third left (200 m) onto Xola Street. You will see the activity ahead on your right.
For media enquiries:
Bruce Oom
Spokesman for Minister Bonginkosi Madikizela, Human Settlements, Western Cape Government
Cell : 072 4655 177
Tel: 021 483 6622
Fax: 021 483 3888
