Gauteng administration makes empty promises to Zamimpilo informal settlement residents:
Dear Johannesburg
The ANC-led Gauteng administration must stop undermining residents’ right to access adequate housing and making empty promises about the relocation of the Zamimpilo informal settlement residents to new dignified housing in Fleurhof.
Zamimpilo informal settlement is situated next to Riverlea, West of Johannesburg and the living conditions at this informal settlement are appalling, inhumane and unsanitary.
The area is congested and there is a serious ongoing problem of illegal mining.
There are abandoned mine shafts which are a danger to the residents and there have been incidents reported of dead bodies retrieved from a collapsed shaft.
There is an urgent need to relocate these residents due to the fact that there is a gas line that has a potential to explode causing a healthy hazard.
For far too long the ANC-led Gauteng administration has promised to relocate the residents of Zamimpilo informal settlement to new housing projects but it is all talk with no action.
In 2008, the then ANC-led City of Johannesburg Mayor, Amos Masondo promised to build 3200 houses as part of the Pennyville housing project and would eradicate Zamimpilo informal settlement.
In 2014, the Gauteng ANC-led MEC for Human Settlements, Ntombi Mekgwe promised that 600 families of Zamimpilo informal settlement will be relocated to the new mixed income housing development of Fleurhof in May 2014.
To date, 12 years later and the ANC-led Gauteng government is still promising to relocate the residents of Zamimpilo informal settlements to new housing developments.
This is yet another empty promise by the ANC-led Gauteng government which will never come to fruition.
Zamimpilo informal settlement residents are in desperate need of adequate housing and are tired of the ANC’s empty promises.
Our people cannot continue living in such a disgraceful environment.
The DA will table questions in the Gauteng Provincial Legislature (GPL) to determine when the process of relocating the residents of Zamimpilo informal settlement will commence and to ask for the details and specific timelines of the relocation.
Regards
Mervyn Cirota MPL
DA Gauteng Shadow MEC for Human Settlements and Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA)
Source: MyJHB
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