Getting to the bottom of the housing mess

The African Peoples Convention’s Zingisa Mkabile has put his finger on why so few houses are built in the Eastern Cape.

Speaking in the debate on Housing MEC Thoko Xasa’s policy speech he said it was that the standard of work was so poor that “every time we have to build the same house two or three times, spending a lot of money in the process.”

Mkabile said that more houses could have been built “if we did not have to clean up every time. We always have to have a follow-up programme in place to clean up”

Mkabile clearly does not have much faith in the department telling the MEC: “Your housing function was taken back to national government that is reviewing our ability to handle it and we should assist national department to take it back because we do not have the capacity”.