Rustenburg-MEC for Human Settlements Public Safety and Liaison Nono Maloyi will on Friday hand over about 570 houses to the Rustenburg families living in rural villages of the local municipality.

The Houses are part of the 8000 houses that are expected to be handed over between February and March.

The benefiting families are mostly those that have been living in mud houses and shacks. In this housing project the department prioritized families headed by the elderly, child and people living with disability.

“The handover is part of celebrating twenty years (20yrs) of freedom, and also in line with the Outcome 8 of the National Development Plan vision 2030 which is intended to improve the quality of people’s lives and bring back dignity to the marginalised communities across the province during this Human Rights Month.  The hand over programme is also part of the department’s service delivery initiative and reduction of housing backlog in the province” departmental spokesperson Ben Bole said.

The handover will take place as follows:

Date: 28 March 2014

Time: 10H00

Venue: Maile Diepkuil
-TDN
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