Taung-MEC for Human Settlements Public Safety and Liaison Nono Maloyi will on Tuesday hand over about 250 houses to the Taung families in the greater Taung local municipality.

The Houses are part of the 8000 houses that are expected to be handed over between February and March 2014.

“The benefiting families are mostly those that have been staying in mud houses while others are those who lost their houses due to floods in the area. The benefiting families are from villages such as Manthe, Tlapeng and Tsokonyane respectively” departmental spokesperson Ben Bole said.

The department has prioritized families headed by the elderly, child and people living with disability. The Taung villages were previously hit by heavy floods where lifes were lost and thousands of rands lost due to property damages.

“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” Bole said.

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: 18 March 2014

Time: 14H00

Venue: Tlapeng tribal authority
-TDN
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