50 houses to be built for vulnerable women
Vulnerable women in Ga-Taueatsoala and Ga-Hlako villages in Steilloop will be the beneficiaries of 50 houses.
LIMPOPO – Vulnerable women in Ga-Taueatsoala and Ga-Hlako villages in Steilloop will be the beneficiaries of 50 houses.
This was announced by the Deputy Minister of Human Settlements, Zoliswa Kota-Fredericks last Tuesday during a National Women’s Build bricklaying and sod turning event.
The minister said this will be done to commemorate the lives of the women who marched to the Union Buildings in 1956.
“These houses are going to be built by women under the South African Women In Construction (SAWIC), we believe we can empower and move the nation forward as women,” Kota-Fredericks said.
The MEC for Cooperative Governance, Human Settlements and Traditional Affairs (CoGHSTA), Makoma Makhurupetje, acknowledged the great work done by the deputy minister and SAWIC.
She said although the road was still long, she was certain that if communities, government, the private sector and the non-governmental organisations worked together, most of the damage caused by Apartheid would be reversed.
One of the beneficiaries, Joyce Ramashala (58) depends on a South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) grant and lives in a two-room shack with her son and three grandchildren, whose parents died several years ago.
She said she was happy she would now have a house of her own for the first time in her life.
