Housing beneficiaries who have failed to take occupation of their completed houses in the R99,9 million housing development project at Ga-motla village in the North West Province are to be deregistered and their houses reallocated to new beneficiaries. This decisive action follows an intervention meeting between the provincial Department of Human Settlements, Public Safety and Liaison, Moretele Local Municipality and housing development contractors held on Wednesday.
The inability of the municipality to trace beneficiaries resulted in many unoccupied completed houses being vandalised and contractors not being paid as registered beneficiaries had not signed “happy letters”.
Among other issues that the team from the provincial department had gathered was that low cost houses were being built for undeserving beneficiaries some of whom had already built massive houses resulting in low cost houses being built next to these big houses.
The team also addressed local labour issues which were delaying housing delivery.
Provincial MEC for Human Settlements, Public Safety and Liaison, Desbo Mohono has instructed that a subsidy administration team from the head office of the provincial department visit the village on Tuesday to deregister beneficiaries that the municipality cannot trace and register new beneficiaries.
The intervention team led by the Chief Director Housing Performance, the District Housing Manager and members of the Project Management Unit is scheduled to also visit Rustenburg Local Municipality on Friday to address housing delivery issues.
Theroll-out of follow-up visits to municipalities are a sequel to earlier province-wide technical engagements with municipalities, housing developers and contractors which were intended to accelerate housing delivery, eradicate shoddy work and terminate contracts of non-performing contractors in order to eliminate rectification and the “blocked project” phenomenon.
Enquiries:
Lesiba Moses Kgwele
Tel: 018 391 0420
Cell: 083 629 1987
E-Mail: LKgwele@nwpg.gov.za
