The increasing need for housing has prompted the government to set aside R10bn to upgrade informal settlements in the next three years, Lindiwe Sisulu announced on Tuesday.The increasing need for housing has prompted the government to set aside R10bn to upgrade informal settlements for the next three years, human settlements, water and sanitation minister Lindiwe Sisulu announced on Tuesday.
As with other departments, Sisulu said, the Covid-19 pandemic had hurt her department's ability to deliver services. This after taking a R14.6bn budget cut in the three years preceding 2019.“Over the next three years, about R10bn has been ring-fenced to accelerate the upgrading of informal settlements countrywide. The rapid growth of informal settlements in all major cities and towns has necessitated a review of funding frameworks,” she said.
“But, here is the nub of our problem: we have the unfortunate position that those people who the previous dispensation restricted to the rural areas are migrating in droves to the cities in search of work and a better future. And so they should. The DA, through MP Emma Powell, rejected the budget and slammed the department for failing to fulfil some of the promises made in the previous budget.
At this money will be stolen, looted, given to ANC family members and stooges as per normal! A the poor will remain poor, the uneducated will remain and unemployment will continue to rise while the fat cats rape the coffers of the country
Who are these ppl demanding housing anf where do they come from?
These guys are kidding right?
To build sand housing that will crumble with the first rainfall....🙄
Wait until all of it is looted. And there will be another inquiry. Haena's are already planning their next plan
O hel! HKGK!
People are just angry... Government ahas provided homes. 100k homes a year is better than most nations around the world
The increase that is made by foreign nationals
Bring Cubans to sort it out minister
Promises promises promises. ANC policy is to ingnore people and wards that dont vote for them. That is umcomstitutional, undemocratic and just plain witchcraft !!!
Anyone else smell an Election coming up? After 27 years they still want to keep people living in shacks!!
VoetsekANC
There are Bachelor of Human Settlements Development graduates that were recruited and sponsored by the department to study Human Settlements Development who are at home unemployed.
That's if you not going to steal it again you assholes!
Formalizing informal settlements is an old trick in the ANC electioneering campaign. DO NOT buy it South Africans. They would formalize a settlement & spend few millions to connect electricity to the shacks, or dig some trenches for sewage; then disappear for the next 5yrs.
Kuzo tyiwa i 9bn basebenzise i 1bn🙄
That is equivalent to rewarding lawlessness. Gov must eradicate informal settlements.Ppl can't put themselves on the side of the road and get rewarded, they must be placed legally. This is so wrong in all fronts. Law abiding citizens are bng severely punished.
That's the only way to get her hands on the cookie jar. First she hired the Cubans and now the R10bn for informal settlements. How much money is she gonna get as kickbacks? They are all corrupt.
Big mouth and no action . She is useless .
That money should have been set before to develop formal settlement
Poor taxpayers are footing the bill for overpopulation, paying for children other people could not afford to actually have.
Demand for housing increases all the time and always exceeds supply since govt fails to do its duty and the population keeps growing dramatically due to high birth rates, influx of illegal immigrants etc
How do you upgrade the informal settlement!lindiwesisulu?
Only 2 billion will be used the rest will go to politicians pockets
So once again you will tease the poor for votes. And then proceed to fill your pockets while giving them poor quality upgrades that barely last a term.
Mxm ba pallwa ke Alexander, turn Alexander to be like Cosmo city then I'd say you on something
This will be the last time we hear about this 10bn and then after 5 years we will hear of mismanagement and corruption while people are still suffering
More money for cadres to steal from the poor
I Need her number 15 years, staying in the informal settlement
😂😂😂😂 ai asivele sithathe njengento engasekho vele sogcina ngokuzwa ngawo lo R10B khona la kuTimes njengo R500Billion osekuthulakele ngawo
No. R10 billion set aside for ANC cadres to loot!
VoetsekANC
Do not upgrade Shacklands, BUT BUILD PROPER HOUSES AND GET RID OF SHACKS.!!!
This election it’s R10 billion last election it was 1 million houses if people still believe and vote ANC they have only themselves to blame 😡😡
Another asbestos gravy train.
Useless minister this one 😏
For me this is the only person working in this government may her fathers spirit be with her for us
😂😂😂😂 this is a joke
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