The project was started in 2006 but could not be completed because building materials were allegedly taken by some of the contractors to finish other projects in other areas of Bolobedu.

The Raseasala, Semosa and Senyolo families said they had been waiting for their houses to be completed for the past six years.

They claimed that instead of completing their houses, the contractor had sent some people to collect the material which was supposed to have completed their houses.

"I was forced to hide some corrugated roof sheeting that the contractors would have taken from my yard because he was completing other projects elsewhere instead of completing my house," Johannes Raseasala, spokesman for one of the affected families, said.

According to Raseasala, 58, who lives in a two-roomed shack with his wife and 15 children, he was forced to buy cement with child grant money to complete the floor of his RDP house.

Raseasala is unemployed and his family survives on social grants.

He also claimed that he had used some of the corrugated iron sheeting that he hid from the contractor to complete his RDP house.

Mmaphetola Semosa is a pensioner whose house was left without a roof. She lives in a dilapidated thatched hut with a leaking roof.

The affected families appealed to the provincial government to intervene so that they might have decent homes.

Spokeswoman for the greater Letaba municipality, Lovers Sibanda, said they were aware of the problem and had sent a list of all abandoned projects to the department of cooperative governance and traditional affairs in the province for direction.

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Jan 30, 2012

LAWAAI

This is what anc is doing to our people.
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Jan 30, 2012

SuziB

@Lawaai...This is what anc is doing to our people.
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I agree that the ANC is failing the people, but this man who has 15 children while unemployed, is already costing the taxpayer R3 900 pm or R46 000 per year! He is doing this to himself! This system of giving to people who do nothing for themselves, will destroy this country!
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Jan 30, 2012

mothouto

15 kids without a job, who is supporting this kids this man is crazy.
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Jan 30, 2012

sabza007

Fly by Night Contractors who can manage their projects professionally makes me sick. They should be arrested and made to pay because they are defrauding the state. But Ntate Reasala, 15 kids when and you are only 58!! All these kids from one K.UKU, Damn!! I understand you were born before the condoms era, but that just too much.
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Jan 30, 2012

tumzangwana

According to Raseasala, 58, who lives in a two-roomed shack with his w!fe and 15 children, he was forced to buy cement with child grant money to complete the floor of his RDP house.
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17 people in a two room shack? aowa ntate ke a gana straight. but at least you were clever enough to save and complete your house. i wonder how long the investigation into this mess is going to take how many years to complete and who is going to blame who after that.

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Jan 30, 2012

Layana

Anc supporters please stand up and explain this betrayal!

I am a Cope member.
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Jan 30, 2012

MommaC

Now the contractor will say that the community stole the corrugated iron (which one has admitted he did) and that is why the project was never finished

(by the way, why would you need to buy cement to fit a roof?)
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Jan 30, 2012

Doculam

Now the contractor will say that the community stole the corrugated iron (which one has admitted he did) and that is why the project was never finished

(by the way, why would you need to buy cement to fit a roof?)
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MommaC: It says, he bought the cement to complete the floor.

15 children and living in a shack: This is actually child abuse, what kind of future do they have???

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Jan 30, 2012

MommaC

Doculam

aah, thank you - eyes going too fast for the brain this morning :)

I wonder if he figured out what is causing all these children to keep popping out of his wifle?
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Jan 30, 2012

MORNACHIES

In the greater Letaba Municipality there's a lot of individuals who re not even qualified
to be on pole positions .that's why we will keep on seeing all this .The mayor City
Modjadji is also incompetent and he knows nothing in giving the mass of the citizens
the mush needed services ..................so he better quit .
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