Gauteng Human Settlements MEC Tasneem Motara has promised Bekkersdal residents that the Urban Renewal Project will be completed by July next year.
Motara was speaking during an Imbizo at the Bekkersdal informal settlement in Rand West City Local Municipality on Wednesday. Bekkersdal residents have been waiting for years for proper housing thats been promised to them. However, the R432 million housing project is still incomplete and has been abandoned.
Residents continue to be exposed to terrible living conditions. Community members in the area say they have lost hope that the government will bring positive change.
Resident, Thato Ndevu says he wants Motara to ensure access to water and job opportunities.
When we want jobs, we apply and we dont know where our applications end up. When you arrive in our townships, its smelly, sewage everywhere in and out, yet the unemployed youth are available. They hire people who stay far to come work at our township. When we ask why we are not working, they are saying we should wait for them to contact us,
