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 Corruption rife in housing, residents claim 

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Speakers told Madonsela at the national stakeholder consultative dialogue held at Mbombela Stadium in Nelspruit about corruption in the allocation of houses in the province.

Sifiso Khumalo, deputy chairman of the Tekwana branch of the South African National Civics Organisation, said: "We are at a point where people will kill each other, because people are desperate for houses."

Khumalo said another problem was contractors doing shoddy jobs.

"The roofs in these houses are leaking and the walls have cracks," he said.

Many other complaints were about contractors conniving with officials of the department of human settlements and selling RDP houses. Others complained about people with disabilities being sidelined by municipalities and the department of human settlements.

Resident William Nkatha said: "There were 120 houses built in Matsulu in the 2006-2007 financial year. People could not understand how these houses would be allocated.

"The contractor told people that in order to qualify for an RDP house, they had to deposit R2479 into a certain account. Towards the completion of the project, residents illegally occupied the houses," Nkatha said.

Addressing the dialogue earlier, Madonsela said: "The main systemic investigation focuses on the delivery of RDP housing. We are conducting the systemic investigation in response to a flood of complaints we have received over the years.

"These range from alleged planning inadequacies, procurement irregularities, including corruption and fraud, leading to defective houses among many inadequacies, allocation irregularities posing challenges such as missing title deeds and illegal sale of RDP houses."

Her office had received 145 RDP housing-related grievances in the year ending on March 31 this year.

Other complaints were about access to water, electricity and sanitation.

Provincial MEC for human settlements Siphosezwe Masango said there were people who did not need RDP houses but had registered for them.

"These houses are rented to foreigners and turned into spaza shops. We are a laughing stock out there," Masango said. - mashabas@sowetan.co.za

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Aug 22, 2012

SOLUTIONS

Mpumalanga has also suffered from the corrupt and incompetent anc, once a great province now the 2nd zimpopo or E.C
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Aug 22, 2012

Ass-eater

@ Solutions, if you dont have anything bad/or good that you can say about your goverment or your corrupt and rooten province shut the f**ck up or keep your moronic and shallow comment to yourself, this article got nothing to do with Limpopo or EC, what was so gr8t about MP anyway??
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Aug 22, 2012

Msiphos00

This is one big problem indeed many people are going to die
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Aug 22, 2012

SOLUTIONS

Gay boy/girl , or ass eater, gross, do you really eat other people's turds?

It has a lot to do with zimpopo and ec, both just as corrupt as the anc cadres on that side, for your information, Mpumalanga used to have a thriving tourism organisation which was one of the best in SA. Now they are bankrupt, that is just one of the things.


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Aug 22, 2012

DJWinner

I don't trust this woman anymore, ever since she started to attend DA rallies. We know DA was involved in a dodgy dealing, what happened to that case? Is it under the carpet or what?
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Aug 22, 2012

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DJWinner
I don't trust this woman anymore, ever since she started to attend DA rallies. We know DA was involved in a dodgy dealing, what happened to that case? Is it under the carpet or what.
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I like the way you say it, A dodgy dealing, do you have more info on this? I remember the anc tried to blame DA for something with IT a while ago but had their a.sses kicked.

The DA does not put stuff under the carpet unlike your anc with 1000's if corrupt cases. Just look what happened in KZN again.


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Aug 22, 2012

DJWinner

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DJWinner
I don't trust this woman anymore, ever since she started to attend DA rallies. We know DA was involved in a dodgy dealing, what happened to that case? Is it under the carpet or what.
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I like the way you say it, A dodgy dealing, do you have more info on this? I remember the anc tried to blame DA for something with IT a while ago but had their a.sses kicked.

The DA does not put stuff under the carpet unlike your anc with 1000's if corrupt cases. Just look what happened in KZN again.
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Ask her for more information on the dodgy dealing. I doubt you will get it though as she is now started to attend DA rallies.

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Aug 22, 2012

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DJWinner
Ask her for more information on the dodgy dealing. I doubt you will get it though as she is now started to attend DA rallies.
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So it is wrong for her to go to Women's day rallies that is orginised by the DA but she must go to anc lunches?


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Aug 22, 2012

Tikoloshe

...Hey Sisi, stop probiing and let's have some convictions...some hyenas in ja.il.

How many have been effectively prosecuted under your leadership??
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Aug 22, 2012

DJWinner

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DJWinner
Ask her for more information on the dodgy dealing. I doubt you will get it though as she is now started to attend DA rallies.
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So it is wrong for her to go to Women's day rallies that is orginised by the DA but she must go to anc lunches?
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Well, she is suppose to be independent. She must not attend political party's rallies.

Anyway, she has shown her true colours.
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