COSATU tries to break the racial barriers with holiday houses
By Marthe van der Wolf
20 October 2007
This weekend, the Congres of South African Trade Unions will hold a conference about a concept of housing holiday houses in these outlying areas to temporarily accommodate people from the informal sector in section of their holiday houses.
“The holiday houses can be rented out in the form of tourist business and the residing family could have a person having some form of employment when the venue is rented out,” says COSATU spokesperson Tony Ehrenreich.
COSATU sees this as form of social tourism that provides a benefit for poor communities.
Spokesperson Tony Ehrenreich says he has taken a family into his small holiday house as a manner in which to provide them with access to decent housing and basic facilities.
“It is unfair when 1 person has 2 homes and lives in luxury while the other has nothing,” says Ehrenreich.
COSATU hopes to start a trend with the MEC.
20 October 2007
This weekend, the Congres of South African Trade Unions will hold a conference about a concept of housing holiday houses in these outlying areas to temporarily accommodate people from the informal sector in section of their holiday houses.
“The holiday houses can be rented out in the form of tourist business and the residing family could have a person having some form of employment when the venue is rented out,” says COSATU spokesperson Tony Ehrenreich.
COSATU sees this as form of social tourism that provides a benefit for poor communities.
Spokesperson Tony Ehrenreich says he has taken a family into his small holiday house as a manner in which to provide them with access to decent housing and basic facilities.
“It is unfair when 1 person has 2 homes and lives in luxury while the other has nothing,” says Ehrenreich.
COSATU hopes to start a trend with the MEC.
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