Piet Plessis- MEC for Human Settlements Public Safety and Liaison Nono Maloyi will on Thursday hand over about 100 houses to the Piet Plessis families in the Kagisano Molopo local municipality.

The benefiting families are mostly those that have been staying in informal settlements while others settled in the area after they were evicted from the local farms. The department has prioritized families headed by the elderly, child and people living with disability.

“The Piet Plessis community has from time to time experienced racial challenges where farm workers were allegedly assaulted while and murdered by farmers” departmental spokesperson Ben Bole.

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.The hand over programme is also part of the department’s service delivery initiative and reduction of housing backlog in the province.

The handover will take place as follows:

Date: 10 April 2014

Time: 10H00

Venue: Piet Plessis Sport Ground
-TDN
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