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Last Monday, 11 March 2019, the Executive Mayor of Johannesburg, Herman Mashaba, and the MMC for Housing, Councillor Meshack van Wyk, spent their morning delivering RDP homes to deserving beneficiaries from Riverside View, Diepsloot.
Between Monday and Tuesday, the City of Joburg allocated a further 64 RDP units in the area to new owners.
Mayor Mashaba said: “This can be a punishing job at the best of times, yet seeing the unbridled joy on the faces of some of the beneficiaries I met here, makes it very worthwhile. I met two women, in particular; Mrs Juia Dankie, who had been living in a shack since 1992 (having registered for an RDP home in 1996), and Mrs Kunene who had been living in a one roomed shack with four children and her husband.
“Mrs Kunene had been on the waiting list for the past 19 years. I helped them both pack up their belongings so that they could move into their new homes.
I have mentioned this on many occasions, but our city is sitting with an extensive housing backlog. Delivering affordable housing, worthy of our people, at a swifter rate is uppermost on the list of priorities for this multi-party government.”
He said he was “grateful, too, for the work being put in by all our stakeholders – including property developers in the private sector -, in ensuring that we turn the inner-city into a construction site and transform the many available buildings in Johannesburg into quality accommodation”.
The City of Joburg’s housing backlog is in excess of 300 000 units.
