THE only thing stopping an ambitious R940 million housing partnership between government and business from reaching its full potential in Port Alfred is a lack of drinking water.
Although just 500 of the proposed 5000 houses will be completed this year,Human Settlements minister Tokyo Sexwale yesterday promised the rest would be built when Ndlambe’s decades- long water woes were solved.
No indication on when and how the water issue would be adequately resolved were provided yesterday.
Comprising almost equally of 2350 subsidised units and 2250 affordable bonded units,the groundbreaking development is being hailed as a blueprint to solve the country’s housing problems.
Several workers complained they had not been paid. Sexwale promised the issue would be rapidly solved.
By DAVID MACGREGOR
