MINISTRY OF HUMAN SETTLEMENTS
REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF PROVINCES (NCOP)
QUESTION FOR WRITTEN REPLY
QUESTION NO.: 95
DATE OF PUBLICATION: 8 SEPTEMBER 2014
Mr C F B Smit (DA-Limpopo) to ask the Minister of Human Settlements:
Whether her department has built any Reconstruction and Development
Programme houses in Limpopo within the (a) 50 and (b) 100 year flood line
of rivers; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?
CO133E
REPLY
To begin with Honourable member, it is worth noting that the RDP houses
were discontinued as soon Cabinet adopted the Comprehensive Plan for the
Development of Sustainable Human Settlements in 2004 setting new standards
for housing typologies for government houses referred to as BNG houses.
In the year 2010, the Limpopo Provincial Human Settlements Department
appointed the company Aurecon to investigate the causes of flooding and
compile the 1:100 year flood line along the Phalala River from the Setateng
Village to the Ga-Seleka Village in the Lephalale Local Municipality. The
study that Aurecon conducted recommended that 99 houses in the Thabo Mbeki
and Shongwane 1 and 2 Villages were extremely affected by the year 2008
floods. Based on Aureconâs study, the Department together with the
Lephalale Municipality resolved that the affected houses should be
relocated to the remaining portion of the farm Richards Lageer. These
houses were built in the 1999/2000 financial year.
The Provincial Department appointed a Land Surveyor and a Town Planner to
demarcate the sites for the purpose of relocation. The process is currently
at an advanced stage.
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