Irregularities with RDP housing?

MOKOPANE - The provincial office of the DA accused a Mogalakwena councilor of interfering in the allocation of RDP houses to benefit his friends and family. The DA wrote to the municipal speaker, Andrina Matsemela, insisting she summon the councilor in question to appear before the ethics committee to address these allegations.
The DA claims to have met with families who say they have watched the councilor’s relatives jump the housing queue. During an oversight visit to Kwenaite village in Bakenberg, the DA claims that it witnessed a family of more than ten sharing a dilapidated two-room house on the verge of collapse.
Another family, it says, has nine family members who share one shack, while two of the children are disabled.
“All these families have applied for RDP houses long ago, while the councilor’s family and comrades get houses before the needy residents,” the DA’s Charlotte Senosha, a ward councilor in Mogalawena, states in a press release.
The Mogalakwena municipality, however, told Northern News they are unaware of any irregularities. “Ultimately, when RDP houses are allocated to a particular ward, the community members are there to monitor and witness if the beneficiaries are indeed people who deserve the houses,” says the municipality’s divisional head of communications, Malesela Selokela. While referring to the family of nine having to share a shack as the DA claims, he says the municipality is not to blame if community members fail to register despite being informed to do so.
“The allegations made by the DA are untrue, baseless lies,” he adds.