Gauteng Human Settlements MEC Tasneem Motara has promised Bekkersdal residents that the Urban Renewal Project will be completed by July next year.
Residents continue to be exposed to terrible living conditions. Community members in the area say they have lost hope that the government will bring positive change.“When we want jobs, we apply and we don’t know where our applications end up. When you arrive in our townships, it’s smelly, sewage everywhere in and out, yet the unemployed youth are available. They hire people who stay far to come work at our township.
“Our first session was with various stakeholders who are affected by the current project that the 25km sewage and water upgrade just poor communication from the contractors, the construction program, when are they digging, when are they filling and when are they completing.