Protesting Nompumelelo residents placed four flaming barricades across the road in front of Beacon Bay crossing at 4am on Friday, disrupting early morning traffic. Witnesses said about 100 Nompumelelo residents had stopped traffic during a protest over a lack of service delivery and the slow progress of phase two RDP housing developments.
In Kimberley s Diamond Park, residents say their decision to vote will most likely be influenced by the completion of an RDP housing project that COGTA started and could not finish owing to the depletion of funds.
A legal showdown is looming between Gompo residents and the government over a plan to build RDP houses for military veterans in the area. Eastern Cape human settlements acting head Edmond Venn told the national department’s portfolio committee this week that a stand-off that halted the contentious project had been resolved.
To address a housing shortage in Nelson Mandela Bay, the municipality is considering buying property from private landowners to create additional housing units.