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Ndlambe responds to RDP housing outcry

Station hill residents are up in arms about not being included on a list for RDP Houses in 2026. Resident and Station Hill Co-Operations Chairperson Nicolette Opperman said she received a call from a friend saying the RDP list was out and…

South Africa’s population rises by more than 10 million in 11 years

South Africa is home to 62-million people as of 2022, more than 10-million more than the 51.7-million counted in 2011. Of these, more than half — 31,948-million or 51.5% — are female, while 30,078-million are male. Education levels are a…

Eastern Cape Human Settlements slammed for wasting millions of rands on unfinished and abandoned housing projects

The Eastern Cape Department of Human Settlements has spent almost R622-million on 25 unfinished or abandoned housing projects. The shocking statistics were contained in written answers to parliamentary questions submitted by the DA to the…

Ndlambe mayor’s bragging rights

Ndlambe mayor Phindile Faxi apologised for being late to last week’s council meeting, but was happy to report he had “bragging rights” over housing. “Housing projects that were blocked [to address bulk infrastructural concerns] are now…

BURNING ANGER: The people of Ekuphumleni at Kenton-on-Sea back in June 2015 protesting on the lack of houses in the area

Municipality discusses housing project contention

Consistency was the call by the official opposition at the council chambers on Wednesday October 17 with respect to squatters at the site of the Ekuphumleni 564 housing project in Kenton. Building houses at the Ekuphumleni site has been a…