After a decade of living in a tiny corrugated iron shack, Nyani Moloi was ecstat...
BETHLEHEM, South Africa - After a decade of living in a tiny corrugated iron shack, Nyani Moloi was ecstatic when she was handed the keys to a two-bedroom brick house built by the government.
The squalid conditions in a 150 million rand housing project known as Baken Park highlight how efforts by the governing African National Congress to address persistent racial disparities in housing, land ownership and services have faltered, a generation after white minority rule ended in 1994. Public anger has been aggravated by perceptions that some government officials and their business allies are growing rich from corruption.
Housing projects like the one in Bethlehem must compete for resources with initiatives such as free education and social grants for millions of poor South Africans. Two years after moving into her home, she is still without running water or electricity. Legally, she doesn’t own the house or the land it stands on: she has yet to receive a title deed for the property.
The Baken Park housing project is part of a Reconstruction and Development Program introduced by the ANC in 1994 to alleviate poverty and inequality, including by providing subsidized houses to families earning less than 3,500 rand per month. The housing project lies about 4 km from Bethlehem’s town center, which has upmarket suburbs that were once exclusively for white people but have since opened up to all who can afford to buy property there.
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