Premier Mabuza to identify beneficiaries of sponsored houses
24 October 2012
In his move of a lasting legacy for the destitute and those deprived by the processes of getting government houses, Mpumalanga Premier David Mabuza will once again visit two poverty-stricken municipalities to identify impoverished households to benefit sponsored houses.
The Premier will visit both Thembisile Hani and Dr J S Moroka municipalities respectively on Friday and is expected to identify 20 households to get houses from his intervention.
This initiative which the Premier has themed “Kancane Kancane Changing the Lives of the People for the Better” is successfully being implemented with the help of business people who partner with him in an effort to give back to the communities where they do business.
Besides the entrepreneurs, the Premier has recently managed to mobilise the private sector and has recently been supported by the following bus companies Putco and Megabus financially.
He has since assisted people with expensive up-market houses who previously resided in rusty shacks, dilapidated mud-houses and makeshift structures in Perdekop in Pixley Ka Isaka Seme, Coronation Park in Emalahleni and Clau-Clau in Mbombela.
Many households in Nkomazi, again in both Dr J S Moroka and Thembisile Hani municipalities have recently benefitted from his projects.
Currently other 35 houses are being constructed in Leandra, Kinross, Bushbuckridge, Bethal and eMbalenhle outside Secunda.
The houses boasts have built-in toilets, water, electricity and furniture.
On Friday the Premier will be accompanied by the executives from the country’s and Africa’s multinational mobile telecommunications company, MTN.
The media is invited and interested journalists should converge as follows;
- Date: Friday, 26 October 2012
- Venue: Nokaneng Cluster Hall, Dr J S Moroka municipality
- Time: 07h00
Issued by Zibonele Mncwango
Spokesperson: Mpumalanga Premier
Tel: (013) 766-2453
Mobile: 079 491 0163
E-mail: zmncwango@mpg.gov.za