Gauteng MEC Maile: Govt still committed to eradicating informal settlements

Gauteng member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Human Settlements Lebogang Maile said the government was still committed to eradicating informal settlements.

Maile was speaking at the Itireleng informal settlement near Laudium, Tshwane where five children died in a home.

It is alleged that their mothers left them unattended and went drinking at a tavern.

Maile said there were currently over 700 informal settlements across the province, with most of them being unauthorized.

He said there was an increase in informal settlements in Tshwane, Johannesburg, and Ekurhuleni since 2016.

“Here in the City of Tshwane, as government, we have allocated them more than a billion [rand], which the city is responsible for to provide temporary services because once people are here, you can’t say you are not going to service them because they are here informally.”

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