Posts tagged with 'Department of Public Works'

 

Pretoria’s homeless want keys to government building that has been unused for five years

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Pretoria’s homeless want keys to unused government building in Salvokop.  It makes no sense to sleep in the streets when government owns a brand new building that hasn’t been unused for years since it was built.

This sentiment was expressed by leaders of Pretoria homeless people who yesterday gathered outside the locked building in Salvokop.

They said it was about time the Department of Public Works and the City of Tshwane gave them keys to the building.

Frustrated and tired of sleeping in dilapidated CBD buildings and cold public parks, the group has been approaching various government departments to speak to executives, trying to get the keys to the building.

They said the building was built either in 2014 or 2015 when two homeless shelters for boys were demolished to erect the R1.4bn Stats SA headquarters, nearby.

A frustrated Richard Wildeman said: “We don’t care what the building still lacks, we’ll make it work
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More ‘money wasted’ and there are lots of concerns over incomplete Free State drug treatment centre

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The Portfolio Committee on Social Development wants to have a meeting with the National Treasury and the Department of Public Works as to why a drug treatment centre in the Free State has not been completed.

In a statement the committee said the facility has been under construction for three years without any progress. This was despite funds having been allocated and made available to the province annually, as a conditional grant.

“This delay impacts negatively on the agreement of having at least one drug treatment centre in every province,” committee chairperson, Zoleka Capa said.

The committee received a shocking report from the Central Drug Authority (CDA) on how the use of drugs is escalating in communities, something which leads to crime and violence in communities.

“This has increased the committee’s belief in the fact that these drug treatment facilities in all provinces should be prioritised in order to deal with this scou
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ANC regime landgrab program is used in an attempt to recruit government votes for the upcoming election

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The Department of Public Works says a “rapid follow-up” process is planned to make land available quickly to give momentum to the landgrab program.

The state has a property portfolio of more than 93,000 buildings and more than 1.9 million hectares of land under the control of the Department.

The government’s land-grabbing program entails that land, as well as any other property, can be claimed by the rulers without compensation.

During a briefing in the parliamentary committee, Sasa Subban, the deputy director general of the department said a 100 properties were earmarked to be released by the end of 2019, and 100 properties in the following year financial year.

He says the North West has been identified as the province with the largest number of outstanding restitution claims, which apparently cover 93 properties.

Subban says the province had a total of 261 properties that were claiming a total of 142,000 hectare
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