Data-less Human Settlement uses Stats SA survey

Staff reporter

Bloemfontein – In a year South Africa celebrates 30 years of democracy with the ruling party priding itself on providing housing among others, the department whose core is to build houses, does not have data on how many houses it built.

A leaked PowerPoint slide under “access to sustainable human settlement” paints a very bleak housing future.

According to the StatsSA General Household Survey which the department is using:

• The percentage of households living in formal dwellings has increased from 62% in 1996 to 88% in 2022,

• The percentage of households living in informal dwellings has decreased from 26% in 1996 to less than 10% in 2022

Interestingly what is presented is from 1996 to 2022, it’s a known fact that Human Settlement returned over R600 million to Treasury as unspent in 2023.

How much difference would that have made to recipients of housing and would that have worked in votes?

In December 2023, a contractor was appointed to build 2000 houses by Human Settlement or risk the money returning to Treasury, again.

How many houses have been built out of that 2000 and how much of that money budgeted for 2000 has been spent?

The Free State Provincial Government has over the past few months since money became available used government resources to campaign for the ANC.

Just two weeks before president Ramaphosa went to Qwaqwa for ANC rally, the department of Community Safety, Police and Roads used government resources to fix roads in Qwaqwa.

Just last month, the FSPG sent the below video to different WhatsApp groups of government senior managers and asked them to share it with their constituencies.

WATCH:

The video does not show potholed roads, collapsing houses, municipalities failing to get clean audits among others and irregular appointments flagged by Public Service Commission with reports gathering dust in the legislature.

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