To
Portfolio Committee on Human Settlements
From
DENIS JAFTA
Subject
OUTSTANDING REIVILO HUMAN SETTLEMENTS
Date
20 October 2022 11:58 p.m.
Dear Portfolio Committee on Human Settlements, I RESIDE IN REIVILO GREATER TAUNG MUNICIPALITY IN DR RUTH SEGOMOTSI MOMPATI IN THE NORTH WEST PROVINCE. IN 2002 GREATER REIVILO WAS AMALGAMATED WITH TAUNG VILLAGES AND PUDIMONG TO FORM WHAT TODAY IS KNOWN AS GREATER TAUNG MUNICIPALITY. SINCE THIS ALMALGAMATION THERE WAS A BOIPELO HOUSING PROJECT OF 200 UNITS AND 77 THIS PROJECT HAS ALWAYS BEEN A PRIORITY NO1 WITHIN THE INTERGRATED DEVELOPMENT (PLAN IDP) OF GREATER TAUNG MUNICIPALITY AND TO THIS DATE THE PROJECT IS STILL OUTSTANDING IN 2022. IN 2015 GREATER TAUNG MUNICIPALITY STARTED A TOWNSHIP ESTABLISHEMENT FEASIBILITY STUDY AND COMPLETED IT IN 2018. IN 2017 THE COMMUNITY OF REIVILO AND BOIPELO ENGAGED THE NORTH WEST LEGISLATURE WITH A PETITION ITS CHAIRPERSON WAS MRS MOTLALEPULA ROSHO WHO INVITED GREATER TAUNG MUNICIPALITY MAYOR MOTLHABANE HIS OFFICIALS AND THE MUNICIPAL MANAGER MR GABANAKGOSI WHO IN THAT MEETING COMMITTED HIMSELF THAT THE HOUSING PROJECT IN BOIPELO AND REIVILO HAS BEEN OUTSTANDING AND THERE TOOK A RESOLUTION TO BUILDING 1000 HOUSES FOR THE COMMUNITY OF REIVILO BUT IN 2019 GREATER TAUNG SABOTAGE THE HOUSING PROJECT AND BUILD HOUSE TO VILLAGES WHO DID HAVE HUMAN SETTLEMENT AS THEIR PRIORITY IN THEIR IDP'S INTERGRATED DEVELOPMENT PLAN. PLEASE INVESTIGATE THIS LONG OVERDUE AND OUTSTANDING HUMAN SETTLEMENT IMPASSE.