Twitter goes mad at Ramaphosa's 447, 000 houses.
Eardley Rudman @EardleyRudman 3Without corruption and mismanagement, tax payers would've funded many more houses by now. Picture: Twitter
Maleka Charles
Twitter came out gun blazing on Thursday, when President Cyril Ramaphosa tweeted that the government has built 447,000 new houses for South Africans across the country, providing more than 1.5 million people with a proper roof over their head.
The president of Transform RSA, Adil Nchabeleng tweeted that the government should stop calling RDP shelters houses, since they are classified as humanitarian crisis shelter.
He also said the government should stop oppressing the people and start delivering real houses, rather than apartheid style match box shelters.
“Other countries this what you call houses is classified as humanitarian crisis shelter. And do not qualify to be named houses. An RDP shelter is not a house stop oppressing our people and start delivering real houses, this is apartheid style match box shelter. @MYANC”
@Mduduzi Msiza, from Msizar technologies said had the government created jobs the people should have afforded to build better houses and contributed positively to the economy of South Africa.
“That Is not an achievement, just shows that we are not progressing, If we created 447k jobs those people could afford to build their own homes and contribute positively to the economy, same as being proud of paying social grants it's nothing to be proud off.”
Another tweet from @Ricardo Elle said the people should be given the land so that they’d build their own houses in proper yards instead of squandering them in two meter houses.
“Give black people their land they will build their own houses in proper yards instead of squandering them in 2metre houses - give us the land title deeds we will build our own houses don't sell us.”
Other tweets:
StayPositive# @KellzTheGuy “Why are these houses so close to each other, if quantity is the goal why not build up that's no.1, no.2, is this an achievement or as you call it, "wasted"”
MR DICK @kabelodick “The question is besides the backlog &rampant corruption in housing who stays in those houses that were build? Clearly it is not SA's our grandparents are dying while still on a waiting list, ur government can renovate bathrooms with millions but can't build houses for people mxm”
born to be a mom @sheryllowenthal “Bring back the 1.5 trillion rands looted by @MYANC cadres. Just imagine what we could build with 1.5 trillion.”
Thabiso 🕺 @thabz061 “How much was put aside for the project ? How much was actually used on these 447k houses? How much was stolen? I'm sure no audits were made. I'm sure more than 100 billion was put aside for this project. You promised Alex people 1 million houses in 5 years, Lies.”
Chewela Gouws @NtswakiGouwe “And this is a problem we teaching our people to love free things instead of teaching them to work for things that money could have been used to create growth and employment.”
IG : Harveyhoncho60 @harveyhoncho60 “We need jobs !!!!!”
Princy Mthombeni @Princymthombeni “This is not something to brag about but I understand, that's ANC's method of capitalising on desperate poor people to make them remain poorer while serving the rich.”
mampondo @zongosnv “Mediocre achievements President arg. people need jobs & developmental opportunities as ther previous government did build houses, better maintainable houses.”
The Inexplicable one @TheOne_Tiego “Give us land and not these match boxes... Otherwise we are voting @EFFSouthAfrica”
Thato_Kashe @Thato38679292 “Please spend money on education around farms, I did LOCUST LABELLING instead of computer skills, I did Afrikaans instead of wood work, FORCEFULLY and I cannot bear seeing this continue happening here as it made me struggle and suffer through the music and engineering career !”
AGirlHasNoName @Sam_anqu “Our people need more houses Mr President. We hope that these houses will withstand climate change & not collapse due to shoddy workmanship. Our youth need jobs. Just browse through @akreana_
A.N. Pantophlet @tpantophlet “Houses without water, electricity and internet connection. It is not about houses but new intergrated urban cities. Get rid of the old apartheid system and rethink urban settlement a new.”
