Site C residents to receive new homes

By Rhodé Marshall
9 July 2007

The second phase of the Khayelitsha housing project is to be completed in September this year, following the completion of 2030 homes which started in September 2005.

The Kuyasa Phase 2 project is set to provide a new life and improve living standards for more than 2000 families.

A long with the homes, a clinic has been opened and the construction of a primary and a secondary school is expected to be completed.

Many of the families that have taken up occupation of their new houses have already started building on to their homes.

“I’m now happy that I’m no longer living in a shack, I’m happy to be in Kuyasa,” says one of the new residents, Michael Mayekiso.

The Project is one of the key anchor projects of the Presidential Urban Renewal Programme and is being funded primarily by the Capital Housing Subsidy Funding (PHDB).

“Site C was one of the first areas to be established in Khayelitsha in 1985, as a transit camp, but was the last to be developed,” says director of strategy, support and coordination in the city’s housing director, Seth Maqetuka.

Maqetuka praised the strength and patience of the Site C community who had waited for a decade to receive their new homes.