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There are more than 65 000 households in the Eastern Cape who are waiting for the issuing of their title deeds of their Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) properties. The DA is calling on the MEC for Human Settlements, Siphokazi Lusithi, to review the Title Deed Restoration Project and put mechanisms in place to clear the backlog as soon as possible, so that our people can sleep soundly, knowing that …
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Serious interventions are needed to stop the deaths of our children when they embark on their traditional rites of passage into adulthood. A response to an oral question from the DA CoGTA MEC, Xolile Nqatha, revealed that we have lost 11 more lives this winter during the initiation season. Six deaths were recorded from the Mhlontlo Local Municipality, two from KSD Local Municipality, two from Ingquza Local Municipality and one …
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The Eastern Cape Department of Human Settlements needs to embrace new technologies if it wishes to tackle the inhumane housing backlog affecting this province. The Democratic Alliance will be lobbying the Department to accept new technologies, increase funding and further identify projects that can be implemented using new innovative ways of building houses. Tens of thousands of households in the province are still living in inadequate, informal structures, with no …
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The Eastern Cape Department of Human Settlements will once again not meet its delivery targets for the 2021/2022 financial year. This is despite the undertaking made by the Premier in his State of the Province address in 2021 that all performance-related challenges faced by the Department will be addressed. In a desperate attempt to save face, the Department made a last-ditch attempt to find housing beneficiaries by publishing a five-page …
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Project delays and the need to fix the shoddy workmanship of careless cadre contractors are placing a huge strain on the dwindling financial reserves of the Eastern Cape Department of Human Settlements. The Department should be instigating legal action against non-performing contractors so that they pay back the money. These contractors are stealing the roofs from over the heads of homeless people. Instead, despite shocking deliverables, the Human Settlements Department …
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