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DESPERATE: Samule Kok pleads with Free State provincial government to pay contractors so that they can complete building her RDP house in Top Location.

PLEASE HELP: These incomplete houses are flush on the entrance of Top Location in Springfontein. Residents claim the houses were left incomplete last year after the Free State provincial government failed to pay contractors. Photos: Ntwaagae Seleka

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The houses were left incomplete last year. Some have no doors, roofs or windows. Residents were told that there was no money to complete the houses.

They are among many in the province which were left incomplete because the department owes building contractors lots of money.

Earlier this year Free State MEC for cooperative governance and traditional affairs Olly Mlamleli confirmed her department had no money to complete construction of the houses.

Mlamleli's spokeswoman, Senne Bogatsu, had earlier promised that the houses would be completed between the current and next financial year.

Last week Sowetan published a story about incomplete houses in Bethulie, which falls under the Kopanong Municipality.

The department again said the houses could not be completed because there was no money to pay building contractors.

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ntwagaes@sowetan.co.za

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Jun 27, 2012

lindsay

oh shut up you are making didn't you vote for them nxa
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Jun 27, 2012

WakeUpSouthAfrica

The freestate government is busy collapsing. The education department is bankrupt.

Just waiting for the Zuma-allied province to break this news to the public.
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Jun 27, 2012

MGEEZ

What's new????
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Jun 27, 2012

Impela

Some people work their butts off trying to raise a deposit to buy a house and slave for 20years paying off said house. Other people however would rather wait for free housing. Perhaps the houses should be given to folks who can commit to finishing the half built houses. Many an economist have said that the provision of free housing is unsustainable.
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Jun 27, 2012

Punkies

@Impela...couldn't agree with you more. The goverment should stop giving people free beez and provide an environment where people can work to pay their own bills and build their own house. Surely this people can make means ends to secure some sort of funding to complete this houses. They are almost done, its not like they will start from scratch. South African people are lazy mannn-:)
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Jun 27, 2012

GrRRRpha

I understand we working our butt off paying bonds, however what happened to the money ear marked to pay the constructors. The government supported small business, but they are constantly going under as a result of late payments. The only problem with these government is governance
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Jun 27, 2012

Impela

@Punkies...handouts (abo hewa) breed a culture of laziness. In today's publication there is a story about Tjale who grows food to share with her community. There are quite a few South Africans who are NOT waiting for some govt. grant with their hands folded.
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Jun 27, 2012

Usernamee

These are the reasons the other groups will say black people lacks skills to run the country, they dont know what they are doing, they've got no management skills, all they do is loot.

F**K this ANC government!!!!!!!
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Jun 27, 2012

Little_Dude

Usernamee
These are the reasons the other groups will say black people lacks skills to run the country, they dont know what they are doing, they've got no management skills, all they do is loot.

F**K this ANC government!!!!!!!
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Anger Management will do for you.
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Jun 27, 2012

Usernamee

@Little_Dude

YES, and free incomplete houses WILL DO for poor black south africans with this pathetic ANC of yours creating chaos and doing nothing to better SA!!!!


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