R150m plan for Ekurhuleni informal settlements
EKURHULENI member of the Mayoral Committee for Human Settlements Queen Duba says she will present a multimillion-rand plan to the council aimed at changing the face of 101 informal settlements in the metro.
Picture taken from www.flickr.comThere is a grant that gets to us through the provincial department but we would like to engage directly with national
Duba says she will push for a resolution at the first council meeting of 2012 that R150-million be made available to her department to ensure that all informal settlement dwellers receive basic municipal services such as clean water, electricity and accessible roads for ambulance and police services.
The metro has 119 informal settlements and Duba said that in some cases communities would have to relocate.
About 93650 households have been prioritised as needing urgent attention.
"Where the municipality does not have a plan for the area, where the informal settlement is on dolomitic or unsuitable land the community will have to relocate," said Duba.
"The informal settlement management plan is in view of the unique challenges that we face as Ekurhuleni of an influx of migration into the area because of its economic opportunities.
"It is a very frank plan that appreciates the fact that a large number of informal settlements will still be with us for a long time."
Duba said people had in the past been relocated from informal settlements to RDP houses, but they still returned to shack-dwelling because some of the shacks were close to jobs. Some did not need the RDP houses because they had houses in the villages.
Her department would ask he national Department of Human Settlements for additional money.
"To start off with, just to provide the basic services, I would have liked to have about R200-million.
"There is a grant that gets to us through the provincial department but we would like to engage directly with national," Duba said.
She said she would ensure that all monies spent would be accounted for in terms of how it benefited the community.
Duba is on a region-wide road show to engage informal settlements dwellers on her plan. She has already visited Thembisa and Vosloorus.
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Justfinkin
They ANC needs R500 million from taxpayers for party.. that excludes overtime for VIP protectors, hotels, fancy cars and flights ect.. ect... for 1500 guests.. Queen needs R150 million for 93 650 poor people. Eish, that does not make sense!Report Abuse
MommaC
Well done, Queen Duba. Just ask your uncle to steal as little of the tenderpreneurial proceeds as possible. It would also be nice if uncle retires afterwards to give one of your other relatives an opportunity to get their share of my hard earned tax proceeds. Sharing is caring.Report Abuse
DaMphiks
Damn promises and In the meantime they will be telling their buddies to get ready for tenders...and they are currently receiving 'gifts' prior to the approval of that said project!Report Abuse
momopat
after giving them new houses they will rent them and still stay in those shacks and the gov will still need anada 150m to relocate them.or they move out and call their relatives to come to jozi and occupy that placeReport Abuse
Tasto
"It is a very frank plan that appreciates the fact that a large number of informal settlements will still be with us for a long time."I thought or made to believe by anc bloggers here that "informal settlements\shacks" only exist in the only non-dysfunctional province of W.C, WOW !!
Even in Gauteng they recogn "that a large number" would still be around for another 100 years ??
Did I miss something here !!
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Justfinkin
@DaMphiks... well said! Queen Duba has just "advertised" a new tender (possibly.. it is still only a plan) for tendepreneurs to consider. Highest back kick will be accepted! I am sure she will be very busy with negotiations. She must just be quick, 3 provinces just about bankrupt, R500mil party coming up, so many hands in the cookie jar that they firing the lower ranks in the feeding frenzy.Report Abuse
somaartakeit
I will believe when I see evidence of service delivery, till then to me it sounds just like any other tenderpreneuring venture the anc has reduced this country to.Report Abuse