AFTER living in a transit camp for more than 10 years, residents were overjoyed to learn they’d spend their last Christmas there this year.
Mayor Mxolisi Kaunda visited the camps in Isipingo on Monday and announced the eThekwini Municipality would start building RDP flats in February.
The camp’s committee secretary, Lindo Mnguni, yesterday told Daily Sun he’d been hearing the same promises for 10 years.
“We were brought here in 2009 and told it would only be for a few months,” said Mnguni.
“We trust Kaunda as he showed us the site where the flats would be built and gave us a date.”
WE ARE BLAMED FOR EVERYTHING IN MZANSI!
Kaunda yesterday told the SunTeam he had prioritised removing everyone from transit camps.
He had asked residents to stop protesting and to wait for the the project to be completed.
Said Kaunda: “We’ve identified the site not far from where they live.
STRANGER LIVES IN MY RDP HOUSE!
“We’re starting early next year, and in a few months we’ll have finished building about 350 housing units.”
Kaunda said residents of Pilgrims and Uganda squatter camps would also benefit.
Sites on which the flats would be built had been identified in Isipingo, south of Durban.
