More incomplete houses in Tubatse
Phala said Coghsta's failure to ensure the completion of the houses is in contravention of Section 26 of the Constitution which guarantees the right of all South Africans to adequate housing.
BURGERSFORT – After Steelburger/Lydenburg News reported that 73 RDP houses were left incomplete by the Fetakgomo Tubatse Local Municipality (FTLM) and Department of Cooperative Governance, Human Settlement and Traditional Affairs (Coghsta) in 2018, the DA has uncovered more incomplete houses dating back to 2016.
These incomplete houses are in Ga Kgoete, Riba Cross, Ga Phasha and Maepa villages.
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Nomsa Manzini from Riba Cross said she has been taken from pillar to post whenever she inquires about her unfinished home.
“In my yard the contractor erected the house, but left without erecting the roof. They then came back, but only to take all the remaining building materials.”
DA’s Katlego Phala said the RDPs in Ga Kgwete were erected in 2016.
“A few months before the August 2016 local elections, FTLM started with the building of houses. Elections passed and RDP homes are still incomplete in 2019. Others are roofless while at some only a concrete foundation was built.”
Phala said they were assisting needy families to petition the municipality’s failure to complete these RDP houses and further write to the MEC for Coghsta, Jerry Ndou, about this.
Paena Galane, a spokesman for Coghsta, said the department was aware of the abandoned and incomplete houses.
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“The MEC has asked for the department’s projects assessment in the previous financial year with the aim of finding out the challenges we face. The assessment has been done, but it was discovered that there were contractors who vanished with their phase one amounts. We were forced to pull out 11 contractors from our database because they couldn’t complete their duties as agreed. Currently, the rectification programme is finished and other contractors are in position to complete all the incomplete houses in the province,” said Galane.
Phala said Coghsta’s failure to ensure the completion of the houses is in contravention of Section 26 of the Constitution which guarantees the right of all South Africans to adequate housing.
