ActionSA Condemns Systemic Housing Failures Across Collins Chabane as Wards 24 and 28 Face Dire Crises
Press Statement by Victor Mothemela
ActionSA Limpopo Chairperson
ActionSA is sounding the alarm on a growing humanitarian disaster within the Collins Chabane Local Municipality, where systemic neglect has left families in both Ward 24 and Ward 28 in life-threatening conditions.
In Ward 24, a family of eight is living in the ruins of a partially collapsed home, huddled into two cracked and unstable rooms that pose an immediate risk to their lives. Simultaneously, in Ward 28, we are confronted with the heartbreaking reality of an orphaned, child-headed household where an unemployed youth and his younger brother have been abandoned by the state, never having received an RDP house despite their absolute lack of a financial safety net or parental support.
The common thread across these cases is the staggering indifference of local leadership, particularly the Ward Councillor, who has reportedly failed to visit these families to assess their plight. While the family in Ward 24 urgently needs roofing and building materials to prevent total structural failure, the brothers in Ward 28 are struggling to survive on occasional food parcels amid a cycle of generational poverty. It is a gross dereliction of duty for elected officials to ignore such clear cries for help, leaving the most vulnerable members of our society, including orphans and large households, to fend for themselves in crumbling structures.
ActionS demands that the Collins Chabane Local Municipality and the Department of Human Settlements immediately dispatch disaster management teams to both wards to provide emergency relief and permanent housing solutions. We call for an urgent audit of the RDP housing list to understand why these destitute families have been bypassed for years while living in “death traps.” ActionSA will continue to stand with the residents of Wards 24 and 28, and we will not cease our pressure until the dignity of these families is restored and they are provided with the safe, secure housing they are constitutionally owed.
ActionSA Condemns Systemic Housing Failures Across Collins Chabane as Wards 24 and 28 Face Dire Crises
ActionSA is sounding the alarm on a growing humanitarian disaster within the Collins Chabane Local Municipality, where systemic neglect has left families in both Ward 24 and Ward 28 in life-threatening conditions.
In Ward 24, a family of eight is living in the ruins of a partially collapsed home, huddled into two cracked and unstable rooms that pose an immediate risk to their lives. Simultaneously, in Ward 28, we are confronted with the heartbreaking reality of an orphaned, child-headed household where an unemployed youth and his younger brother have been abandoned by the state, never having received an RDP house despite their absolute lack of a financial safety net or parental support.
The common thread across these cases is the staggering indifference of local leadership, particularly the Ward Councillor, who has reportedly failed to visit these families to assess their plight. While the family in Ward 24 urgently needs roofing and building materials to prevent total structural failure, the brothers in Ward 28 are struggling to survive on occasional food parcels amid a cycle of generational poverty. It is a gross dereliction of duty for elected officials to ignore such clear cries for help, leaving the most vulnerable members of our society, including orphans and large households, to fend for themselves in crumbling structures.
ActionS demands that the Collins Chabane Local Municipality and the Department of Human Settlements immediately dispatch disaster management teams to both wards to provide emergency relief and permanent housing solutions. We call for an urgent audit of the RDP housing list to understand why these destitute families have been bypassed for years while living in “death traps.” ActionSA will continue to stand with the residents of Wards 24 and 28, and we will not cease our pressure until the dignity of these families is restored and they are provided with the safe, secure housing they are constitutionally owed.