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“As the Department of housing in the city of Johannesburg, we would like to appeal to communities of Johannesburg to be patient with us in terms of delays in the allocations of those completed units throughout the city,” said Member of the Mayoral Committee (MMC) of Housing in the City of Johannesburg, Mzobanzi Ntuli.

“As citizens of Gauteng ourselves, we are gravely concerned about the long-standing delays caused by lack of proper infrastructures such as electricity installations in some projects and the program of making housing waiting list transparent to people of Johannesburg. Our department is currently working hard to prepare a housing list that is going to be made public, each person needs to know his or her status in terms of the list,” Ntuli explains.

The Department has committed itself to make certain that all completed units are allocated between February 2017 and June 2017.

“Our people are becoming desperate and have had enough of the empty words that have failed to provide refuge. Therefore, as the government of the day, we wish to state unreservedly that we cannot change the mistakes that have been made in the past. But we can certainly learn from them and ensure that we ramp up our programmes to improve the lives of South Africans and live up to the imperative – business unusual,” Ntuli concluded.

Issued by City of Johannesburg