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Families relocated from Phola Park in Komani in 2010 after storm damage are still living without services at a “temporary” relocation site. They say they had been promised RDP houses, within a year, ...
An RDP house can only be sold with the written permission of the municipality. It is illegal to buy or sell a unit without permission. Can you rent out your RDP house?
Theirs is one of more than 20,000 Breaking New Ground (BNG, formerly known as RDP) houses in the province that are incomplete ...
Annica Van Staden, 48; 51-year-old estate agent Helga Kruger; and 55-year-old Foto Boy Makua alias Fofo appeared in the Middelburg Regional Court on allegations of fraudulently selling RDP houses ...
Over 360 almost completed RDP houses in Randfontein have been illegally occupied since August. Most of the houses do not yet have electricity, tap water or sewerage connections.
It is illegal to sell an RDP house before you’ve lived in it for eight years. It is illegal to rent out an RDP house. To check how far you are on the waiting list for a house call 0800 146 873 or go ...
“If you buy an RDP house, you must ensure that the person who sells the house, has not sold the house to other people as well, and that he or she has the right to sell the house,” Hall said.
Ave Seymour, 66, from Mlungisi township in Stutterheim, Eastern Cape, first applied for a RDP house 24 years ago. She says her application was approved in 1998 and construction on the houses began ...
Living in an RDP house and being disabled is "hell", complains Zingisani Mhlahlela. He is 30 years old and uses a wheelchair, GroundUp reports. He lives with his mother in an RDP area called of Chris ...
Inside the RDP house. The family has resorted to placing blankets on the floor to keep the water out, and drilled a hole in one of the bedroom walls so that the water can flows out to the back ...
Eight Reconstruction and Development houses have cost the Gauteng housing department a whopping R5-million each - after a developer was paid R41-million to build 5 000 homes, but constructed only ...