Non-performing housing contractors appointed by the province’s human settlements, public safety and liaison will soon lose their contracts, the department said yesterday.

The announcement came after the human settlements branch acting head of the department, Monnapula Motlogelwa held one-on-one technical sessions with municipalities and contractors in the Ngaka Modiri Molema district municipality.

His engagement with municipalities and contractors was aimed at finding solutions to housing challenges experienced in housing projects, creating healthy relations with municipalities and to accelerate housing delivery in the province. The session was the result of a number of complaints from the public and challenges experienced in the process of reducing the housing backlog and incomplete projects.

Motlogelwa warned that the department would not sympathise with incompetent contractors. “We have a mammoth task of delivering quality houses and dealing with the mushrooming informal settlements in the province.

“We need committed men and women in construction who will deliver in the best interest of our communities out there – on target.”

He said that the department would assist emerging women contractors to increase the pace of housing delivery in the province. Motlogelwa said the department was focused on strengthening partnerships and ensuring that projects yielded targeted job opportunities, ensuring that housing targets were met without compromise on quality, that roles were clarified and that early warning and monitoring systems were in place for prompt intervention.

“This is the right step to ensure that as citizens we receive quality service from the government, which promised to restore our dignity by providing quality housing,” RDP house beneficiary Boyce Mooketsi said.

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