RDP houses used as Spaza shops
While other destitute families live in dilapidated houses and shacks
An RDP house used as tuck shop. Photos: Boitumelo Tshehle
LEFT OUT:
Paulina Khune says she applied for an RDP house five times.
SEVERAL RDP houses in North West are being used as tuckshops while some destitute families live in dilapidated houses and shacks.
Most of these families in Uitkyk village near Madikwe were told they do not qualify for low-cost houses.
Paulina Khune, 62, said she had applied for an RDP house five times.
She said she was promised a house by former Moses Kotane municipality mayor Peter Molelekeng but is still living in a dilapidated home with her unemployed daughter.
Her daughter, Mmathapelo Khune, said at the mayoral imbizo this year, mayor Fetsang Mokati Thebe said the human settlements MEC gave her 20 RDP houses as presents.
"She said to us she was going to give them away to her favourite people. We are left like this because we are nobody's favourite," she said.
Wilfred Magazi, 73, and wife Emily said they were told that they would never get an RDP house because they do not have children.
Just a few houses away is a tuck shop in an RDP house. The shop's owner Hendrick Molotsane said: "This RDP was allocated to my nephews, they went to other cities to look for jobs, so I saw an opportunity. It is not a crime because I help my nephews with the money I make."
Human settlements spokesman Simon Mmope said the Khune family would get a house in six months.
He said the mayor was given 20 RDP houses as a mayoral special project, not as a birthday present.
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wesbuw22
Bathong,,, just gv them the damn houses ao, wt does have to do to get a better services nareReport Abuse
LBS
>>"She said to us she was going to give them away to her favourite people. We are left like this because we are nobody's favourite," she said.<<ABUSE of power and position!!
Why is Fetsang Mokati Thebe allowed to get away with this type of behaviour - oh I know - because there is no accountability and control in any government department!!
There should be strict criteria that is adhered to and not favouritism and patronage!
How can a person take over an allocated house to use for a business, when it was given f ree to someone who (apparently) needed it, only to have them move on to greener pastures and abandon the house?
The house should be taken back and reallocated as a home to someone else.
No wonder the list of those 'needing' homes grows continuously instead of reducing, if this is allowed to happen!
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tops
and the mayors are full of themselfs.mxmReport Abuse
golezwa
where is Itumeleng Khune to help o'lady?????..... on a serious note, this guys should be brought to book, how on earth a major can say that to people who are desperate for houses? for pete's sake they are the one who put her there at first, if it wasnt because of them she would not be a majorReport Abuse
enlightener
Dear Edtitor.I do not see anything wrong using the RDP house as a tuck shop. My mother was awarded an RDP house 5 years back while i was still at school financed by TEFSA today(NSFAS). we qualified untill today when i am working after obtaining my degree. I have built a better house for my mom and family and now uses the RDP house for a tuck shop. This tuckshop increases the income in the family and we can not destroy it mainly because it is an RDP house. what i am saying is those people who are still awaiting RDP house. Please address the matter with the municipality for you to get the houses as well because you deserve them.
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Stumaeza
Is it a crime to use your RDP house for business? i don't think so...Report Abuse
SHANDIS
the Khunes will get their RDP house finally cause Mangaung is just around the corner, this how the hei nd see works mosReport Abuse
SHANDIS
How can the former mayor built a house for ani1 whereas he still lives in a four roomed Madikwe house. lolReport Abuse
lillianm
but why do we always have kneel down on our knees to mayors,councilors bcos we chose them to be our ears .zuma doesnt know me i also see him in a news paper &tv but the mayor knows we grew up together attended the same school .why cant he help me he sees me everyday ,he is my neibour people people wake up do something the community you are where you are bcos my vote if it wasnt for that vote you wouldnt be anywhereReport Abuse
Catswhiskers
The mayors and councilors abuse their powers all the time because they think they are better than their constituents. Meanwhile, they were actually nobodies with nothing before they were elected. They need nothing more than to be a good supportive ANC cadre.Don't know why we need mayors in any case when we also have city/town managers. What does a mayor actually do?
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