Costly white elephants in Soweto
By Botho Molosankwe
Johannesburg – The Gauteng Department of Human Settlements spent millions of taxpayers’ money on housing developments at dilapidated hostels in Soweto.
Despite the R230 million poured into the projects, the units in Meadowlands, Dube, Mzimhlophe and Diepkloof have become white elephants while hostel dwellers continue to live in squalor.
Long grass sprouting from the pavement, a yard covered in weeds, a broken gate on the ground, smashed windows and graffiti on the doors bear testimony to how long the development at Dube hostel has been empty.
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