Rustenburg-Acting MEC for Human Settlements Public Safety and Liaison Desbo Mohono will hand over about 300 houses to the Mmatau and Siga families in the Moses Kotane local municipality on Saturday.

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

“The benefiting families are mostly headed by the elderly, child and people living with disability. The village which is more than 100 kilometers from Rustenburg, has little economic activities. Most families survives on subsistence farming. Unemployment has reached a record high among villagers” departmental spokesperson Mokotedi 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.According to Acting MEC the gesture is part of the department’s service delivery initiative and reduction of housing backlog in the province.

He said that the move is also critically important because it restores the dignity of those benefiting communities.

The handover will take place as follows:

Date: 08 March 2014

Time: 10H00

Venue: Mmatau tribal offices
-TDN
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