By Sasha Forbes
01 April 2009
After years of miserable living conditions, more than one-thousand families were made beneficiaries of N2 Gateway houses built in Delft, Joe Slovo and New Rest. To date almost three-thousand houses have been allocated to homeless people over the past six months.
One of the home owners said that they are now able to start a new life and that they now no longer have to worry about fires and floods.
According to Thubelisha Homes director Xhanti Sigcawu this was the third handover in Delft Section 7-9, about 2 300 houses had been completed at nearby Delft Symphony Way and another 1 850 were under construction.
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Community radio should have more respect for its community than to take government propaganda at face value.
Sure 3000 people have moved into these houses but about 1/3 of the people are receiving the houses corruptly. Just take a stroll through tne N2 Gateway and you will see a multitude of BMWs parked outside. Ask people in the actual houses and you will find out they are renting or have bought the houses from people who stayed in Nyanga or Joe Slovo to be closer to work.
And what about the tens of thousands of Joe Slovo residents who are refusing to move into these houses in Delft? If the N2 Gateway is such a successful project, why would they rather stay in shacks than move to houses in Delft?
I would expect this kind of horrible reporting from SABC radio but not from a community radio station that claims to get people to think!
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