Committee conducts visit to the N2 Gateway Housing Project

By Nomava Nobumba
09 September 2009


Parliament's Standing Committee on Public Accounts will today go on an oversight visit to the Western Cape N2 Gateway Housing Project.

The aim of the visit is to find out whether the shortcomings reported by the Auditor-General in his report regarding the project in Langa have been attended to.

The committee says the shortcomings identified by the Auditor General were cracks in the walls and floors, peeling paint, doors that were not fitted properly, loose fittings and uncovered drain pipes and blocked drains.

The Committee wants to satisfy itself that government has complied with all the recommendations tabled by the Auditor General's report.

During the meeting, in which the report was tabled, the Department of Human Settlement indicated that the defects identified by the report had been fixed.

The main intention of the project was to comprehensively address the housing and development needs of the informal settlements adjacent to the N2 Highway.

After the visit to the N2 Gateway Housing Project, the Committee will draft its report to parliament.