By REGINALD KANYANE
28 October 2025- The Northern Cape MEC for Cooperative Governance, Human Settlements and Traditional Affairs (COGHSTA), Bentley Vass handed over a total of 15 houses to some of the beneficiaries of the Calvinia 200 Housing Project in the Hantam Local Municipality in Namakwa District). Vass was accompanied by the executive mayor of the Namakwa District Municipality, councillor Mervin Cloete, mayor of the Hantam Municipality, councillor Koos Alexander and other councillors of the two municipalities.
He further said the Calvinia 200 Housing Project is part of the 1 Billion Rand Housing Project launched in January 2024 by the Republic of South Africa (RSA) president, Cyril Ramaphosa and Northern Cape Premier, Dr Zamani Saul, as part of efforts to address the housing backlog of the Northern Cape. Vass added that the houses are completed.
“They will be handed over to beneficiaries in batches from project to project. We are happy that this morning, we are able to hand over keys to 15 families in this municipality. We continue to call all the appointed contractors across the Province, to work with speed to ensure that beneficiaries receive their houses sooner rather than later.
“We are aware of slow progress in some of the projects in the different districts and we have moved swiftly to terminate some of the contractors, who are not performing optimally despite several interventions and assistance by the department,’’ he said.
Meanwhile, Saul said the Northern Cape Provincial Government is committed to eradicating the province’s housing backlog by building houses in all the Districts.
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