Wed May 22 07:36:57 SAST 2013

'We've waited for houses for 18 years'

Jan 30, 2012 | Boitumelo Tshehle | 18 comments

Squatter camp springs up overnight

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Wed May 22 07:36:57 SAST 2013 ::
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Jan 30, 2012

lindsay

i bet you were given those houses and sold them now you want more SAns for their dependencyand entitlement tendencies.
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Jan 30, 2012

CheeseBoy

and you are going to wait 18 more years.......
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Jan 30, 2012

CheeseBoy

There is nothing like freee housing, somebody always pays.
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Jan 30, 2012

TKay

Is the Mayor telling us that the Municipality has been waiting for the department to allocate houses to beneficiaries for more than 10 years? why are these people selfish about the money that its not even theirs, whats so difficult about writing a Memorandum for the allocation of funds and other resources to deliver to the people as promised...These officials are lazy and very selfish and they are tarnishing the image of our politics and that of the country
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Jan 30, 2012

KUKU

You only waited for 18 years...is that all?
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Jan 30, 2012

maditaba

Goverment must just stop with the multi-million rand tenders and rather let communities organise themselves and subsidise them to build their own houses. Thats how we as Africans have always done it , Letsema.

My aunt lives in Botlokwa. There is a group of women there who will make bricks for you. She paid them they came, made the bricks. Then there is group of men who build houses. She started the process in October and by Chrismas three of the rooms were completed and she could move in.She is a domestic worker by the way

Bo rakgolo ba rena ba be ba ikagela dintlo
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Jan 30, 2012

MapezawaLebhaka

I would like to support the statement by "maditaba" and yes people must stop accussing the government about the houses because for they are lazy to go and get work so that they can b.uy their own houses and i believe that the government doesn't owe them a thing all they have to do is to work for themselves so that they can have a better life and stop toyi-toying,disrupting schools because by so doing they are building an uneducated community who will in future hold government for the things they should have fixed while growing up which is going to school to pave way for your own future.
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Jan 30, 2012

Sgandy

Stop voting for these hyenas then..try another party and see what happens..and also you people should realize we can't be building houses for you till the savior comes..noways
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Jan 30, 2012

swona

why did you waste your time waiting? some of you should have had double story houses by now! how funny to watch tv and a man with a big stomach perhaps with a big willy crying for a house! i find it stupid! what happened to men who will provide for their kids? no wonder these SA men they are becoming gay!
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Jan 30, 2012

BaleliM

We can easily blame the people for dependency and this irritating entitlement but i will say the Govt blurted out to the people that with them in power, there will be housing, job creation and delivering of basic necessities.
Obviously this is not happening and after a year or so of waiting, i would assume that anyone can start making a plan to make things happen. To wait for 18yrs is mind boggling.
People need to understand that even when you pray to God for a job, you need to go out there and search as no one will coming on your door that they had a dream of you wanting one.
Stop being lazy and waiting for manna to drop from heaven and do something of your life!!
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Jan 30, 2012

somaartakeit

anc delivers... NOT, lol keeping voting that way boys and girls and wallow in squalor,
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Jan 30, 2012

cornelius

Imagine the racist vitriol that would have been spewed on this forum if this had happened to be inthe W Cape.
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Jan 30, 2012

BaleliM

@ Cornelius, have you noticed how few the comments are on Sowetan today because there is no racism and s3x. Lol
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Jan 30, 2012

dre10

At least its not Khayelitsha in Kaapstad.
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Jan 30, 2012

somaartakeit

@dre10 so how was EL? lol btw bathi umalima akabhatali imembership yakhe, lol so what do you say? I mean really how can he not pay when he clearly is affording? and shouldn't he as a leader of the YL lead you guys by example? imagine nje xa angaba yipresident yale country angabangu hlohlesakhe just like uzuma.
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Jan 30, 2012

Bhubesi

@swona
why did you waste your time waiting? some of you should have had double story houses by now! how funny to watch tv and a man with a big stomach perhaps with a big willy crying for a house! i find it stupid! what happened to men who will provide for their kids? no wonder these SA men they are becoming gay!
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Okay, they have started to build the houses like you expect them to do. Now the Municipal is coming to demolish what they could not provide in the first place. What the hell is that? Lets say some had money to build brick houses, do you realize that those houses would be demolished too? Whether they are willing to pay out from their pockets for residency they will still be prosecuted for not having the patience longer than 20 yrs to get infrastructure. Its like the government is purposefully denying them the right to exist, b cos no matter what they try its not good enough in the eyes of the state. They have waited for 18yrs how much long should they wait? What exactly r u and the government trying to provoke. Because if you r expecting the community in question to remain submissive and obedient under such circumstances they will go extinct together with the children. Don't forget that there could be doctors of tomorrow in that dirty slum.
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Jan 30, 2012

Revulshionary

I was there.

I saw the guys working.

One guy was sweating amidst the Stink & Crap, but cheerfully singing:

"""ANC, My party.

Viva ANC, ANC for Ever. ANC till Jesus come."""

I asked him what was making him so happy and he answered that he will gladly stay amidst the shiiitt & CRAP.

As maybe it will allow JUJU to steal enough money to build a R 24 million house.





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Jan 30, 2012

Revulshionary

We will vote (and wait) for EVA... As long as ANC rules.

We will gladly die of hunger and disease for the ANC.

They can gladly walk over our dead bodies..., if they so like....




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