R101-million boost for KwaDukuza housing
The Sokesimbone Rural Housing is a project with an expected yield of 1000 units in two wards, namely 1 and 25 in Doringkop.
A R101-million housing project in the rural outskirts of KwaDukuza was launched last week as part of re-affirming security of tenure in human settlements and home ownership.
The Sokesimbone Rural Housing Project was announced by MEC for Human Settlements and Public Works, Ravi Pillay, Kwadukuza Mayor Ricardo Mthembu and the local traditional leader, Inkosi Mathonsi who welcomed the development and thanked government for co-operation and unity in delivering this massive human settlements project.
Pillay also issued more than 200 title deeds to the community of Mbozamo, Senzangakhona in Shakaville and Indian Village Flats to give them the rightful ownership of their houses in line with the Human Settlements Department’s Enhanced Extended Discount Benefit Scheme (EEDBS) policy instrument as well as the exit stage of post-1994 housing projects.
The Sokesimbone Rural Housing is project with an expected yield of 1000 units in two wards namely 1 and 25 in Doringkop, about 165 houses have already been constructed.
The project has been registered with the statutory quality assurer, the National Home Builders Registration Council (NHBRC) and construction of about 200 houses had already commenced.
In 2013, KwaDukuza municipality was accorded a Level 2 Accreditation in terms of the Department of Human Settlements’ Accreditation Framework Policy, which sees more human settlements functions being devolved to accredited municipalities so as to fast-track housing projects packaging.
In his address, Pillay thanked the vast majority of people in the community of Doringkop for maintaining stability over chaos and anarchy that had hit the country badly recently.
‘We thank this community for exercising maturity and stability on the forces that are seen to be very hard to resist.’
KwaDukuza Mayor Ricardo Mthembu said these are all efforts to bring about dignity to the generations that have been affected by the government of the past.
‘For over 340 years of oppression, the systematic strategy to deprive people of their basic services still persists, today the government is restoring dignity and human freedom to the generations which were born into the legacy of the apartheid,’ said Mthembu.
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