South Sudan: Reasonable Prices of Building Materials Needed in South Sudan

29 December 2011
editorial

Throughout the Republic of South Sudan there is a great need for building materials to enable citizens to construct modern houses as residences or business holdings. In fact throughout the more than five decades of South Sudan being an appendage of the old Sudan since the independence of the old nation on 1st January, 1956, it was a policy of the Arab colonialists who had control over the affairs of the country who restricted Southerners like former members of parliament and a few who were successful merchants from constructing modest houses for residential purposes.

Before the independence of South Sudan specifically in pre-CPA era the Arabs did not want to see a Southerner living in a nice house or environment which was exclusively meant for them. Anyone at the time who dare build a good house risked being lynched because according to the mentality of the Arabs of Sudan the only good things including housing must belong to them or associated with them because they were the first class citizens of the country while Southerners at the time were the fourth class in the category of citizenry and did not deserve modern housing facilities.

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