Sexwale : 12 milllion people still in need of housing : South Africa
The SABC are reporting Saturday that Human Settlements Minister, Tokyo Sexwale, has confirmed that there is a backlog of two million housing units in the country.According to the Minister government still has to provide houses for 12 million people in South Africa.He was speaking at the launch of Tau Village, an inner city Social Housing project, in Pretoria on Friday and acknowledged that the government needed to meet people’s basic needs.The report also confirms that the residents of Tshabho - a village near Berlin in the Eastern Cape - have called on the Minister to investigate their housing project. While a company had been awarded a tender the project failed to take off. In addition that they have documents claiming to have finished their houses which was not true. According to residents' chairperson, Sizwe Yaka, several meetings have been held with the provincial department without resolving the issues.
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Human Settlements - housing officials cited on R18m fraud
1300 housing officials cited on R18m fraud
THE Department of Human Settlements is disciplining more than 1300 housing officials who defrauded the housing subsidy system to the tune of R18million.
Human settlements director-general Itumeleng Kotsoane told Parliament’s human settlements committee yesterday that the special investigations unit had finalised 513 cases involving civil servants – many of whom were convicted.
The errant officials who “defrauded the housing subsidy system” have signed more than 1440 acknowledgements of debt to the value of R18399778 .
The officials have paid government back R1,8million so far, Kotsoane said. A further 795 officials are currently facing disciplinary action. Kotsoane told the committee that the spiralling costs of housing material posed a “huge problem” to the government.
He said the Competition Commission’s investigation of possible cartels in suppliers of construction materials such as stock bricks and cement will help reduce the costs of building houses in the future.
Meanwhile, members of Parliament urged Kotsoane to check that quality houses are being built as a way of preventing service delivery protests.
Committee chairperson Nomhle Dabuza said the human settlements department had also failed to monitor what happens to new housing projects.
THE Department of Human Settlements is disciplining more than 1300 housing officials who defrauded the housing subsidy system to the tune of R18million.
Human settlements director-general Itumeleng Kotsoane told Parliament’s human settlements committee yesterday that the special investigations unit had finalised 513 cases involving civil servants – many of whom were convicted.
The errant officials who “defrauded the housing subsidy system” have signed more than 1440 acknowledgements of debt to the value of R18399778 .
The officials have paid government back R1,8million so far, Kotsoane said. A further 795 officials are currently facing disciplinary action. Kotsoane told the committee that the spiralling costs of housing material posed a “huge problem” to the government.
He said the Competition Commission’s investigation of possible cartels in suppliers of construction materials such as stock bricks and cement will help reduce the costs of building houses in the future.
Meanwhile, members of Parliament urged Kotsoane to check that quality houses are being built as a way of preventing service delivery protests.
Committee chairperson Nomhle Dabuza said the human settlements department had also failed to monitor what happens to new housing projects.
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