South Africa: Residents Have to Stay in Shacks After State Fails to Pay Contractors

24 February 2017

Standoff between Housing Development Agency, Department of Human Settlements and contractors leaves Chatty residents with unfinished homes

About 300 housing beneficiaries in Chatty Extension, Port Elizabeth, are living in leaking shacks at the backs of their unfinished houses, after builders went on strike because they weren't paid.

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