By Theodorah waga Mawasha
KHUJWANA-A family of four from Khujwana village, Greater Tzaneen stay in a one-room shack.
Phillemon Moela, wife and two children all live together in one shack. Moela and his wife are unemployed, they depend on his disability grant.
To add to their woes, they live without basic services like water, sanitation and electricity.
Moela said that he is yet to realize Nelson Mandela’s historic 1996-election promise of housing.
“I am asking for the government to restore my dignity as a man. I am unable to work because of my disability. Service delivery is a foreign concept to some of us. We are only told about it “, Moela said.
A neighbour who brought the plight of the family to the publication’s attention said the family is in complete dire straits.
“They applied for a RDP house and it was approved. No house has been made available to them nevertheless. Although, there has been housing projects in the area. The family desperately needs help”, he said.
Ward 18 local councillor Norman Mkansi was contacted and he said he does not know of the family or their challenges and that there has not been any housing project in the area in recent months.
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