Minister of Human Settlements Mmamoloko Kubayi replies to Africa Check's commentary ‘How South Africa’s top brass continue to inflate government housing figures and why it matters’.
In the comment provided by Keegan Leech, he begins by making claims about comments made by me in a recent interview. He does not respond to the whole interview, but instead to a selected passage taken out of context. He also fails to actually quote the housing right contained in our Constitution where Section 26 states that: The state must take reasonable legislative and other measures, within its available resources, to achieve the progressive realisation of this right.
Interestingly, in his commentary, Leech does not produce one iota of evidence of the actual number of households benefiting from receiving an actual house provided by government, nor does he show evidence for how many households have benefitted from housing opportunities, which are clearly defined in policies, and nor does he provide evidence of how many households have benefitted from the building of human settlements, where water, electricity, sanitation, roads, transport, social and other...
We have also stated transparently that we are taking steps to address corruption, nepotism and the like in the provision of housing and housing opportunities.