Way forward found for complaints in veterans houses

Military veterans staying at Siyanqoba Village complained about the poor quality of their houses and at last action has been taken.

Siyanqoba Village is just a few kilometres from Klarinet. Mr Lastborn Zimu who is the provincial secretary of the South African Military Veterans Association (SAMVA) took the matter a step further by inviting the leadership of the military veterans and officials from the department of human settlement for a visit to the place.

Officials at Siyanqoba Village to inspect some of the raised problems in the veteran’s houses. The officials are from left: Mr Hamilton Siyaya (contractor), president of SAMVA Mr Lucky Magingxa, Mr Lastborn Zimu (provincial secretary of SAMVA), Mr George Biya (national deputy secretary of SAMVA), Mr Paul Ndlovu, Mr Thuli Mashele (department of human settlement).

Officials from the national executive of the SAMVA were invited to come and see for themselves the poor quality of some of the houses. The officials included the president of SAMVA Mr Lucky Magingxa, Mr George Biya deputy secretary, Themisho Murupane, coordinator of Mpumalanga Military Veterans, Alfred Mathibela provincial executive committee member, Lucky Masuku regional executive committee member of Umkhonto Wesizwe were all present.

Some of the officials who attended to the problems of the veterans houses at Siyanqoba Village discussing some points.

After the inspection of the house it was agreed that the MEC for Human Settlement, Mr Speedy Mashilo will be given three weeks to find a solution to the problems. The contractor and officials from the department were also invited after the three week period.

The officials met again on Tuesday, January 30 and after a short meeting with the officials, Mr Magingxa indicated that all the problems have been noted by Mr Alfred Ngwenya a building inspector from the department and that the contractor Mr Hamilton Siyaya was positive that some of the problems will be sorted. Mr Siyaya has even gone out of his way to make sure that all was well. Mr Siyaya promised they will sit down and find a way to solve the problems and was willing to do a good job.

One of the identified problems at the veterans houses is some windows do not close properly.

The veterans do not have electricity in their houses, no water and sanitation is poor for the past eight months according to Zimu.
The officials all agreed that a way forward has been found and what was left was to fix the problems

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