INDEFINITE WAITING TIME FOR AN RDP
10 years and still waiting to receive my RDP house
The process to qualify is not a difficult thing to do but now why
should one wait for 10 years before he/she can get a response from the
department.
"I am staying in an informal settlement for years, a
lifestyle even a pig would refuse to live. I have applied back in 2014 but
still no response or sign of positivity of any sort."
Said Mr Modika.
Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) a program by the
department of human settlement which administer land reform in South Africa.
A beautiful initiative to balance issue of land ownership in the
country due to our past history as a country, mostly provide relief and housing
to those community and people who have been previously disadvantaged.
Why did the government introduce RDP?
The RDP is an integrated, coherent socio-economic policy framework. It seeks to mobilise all our people and our country's resources toward the final eradication of apartheid and the building of a democratic, non-racial and non-sexist future.
Importance of RDP housing
Our history has been a bitter one dominated by colonialism,
racism, apartheid, sexism and repressive labour policies.
The result is that poverty and degradation exist side by side with
modern cities and a developed mining, industrial and commercial infrastructure.
Our income distribution is racially distorted and ranks as one of the most
unequal in the world - lavish wealth and abject poverty characterise our
society.
Requirement to qualify for an RDP house
- Be a South African citizen.
- Be contractually capable.
- Be married or habitually cohabit with a
partner.
- Be single and have financial dependants.
- Earn less than R3500.01 per month per
household.
- Be a first time government subsidy
recipient.
- Be a first time home owner.
- Single Military Veterans without
financial dependant.
What
does the Bill says:
Land is the most basic need for rural dwellers. Apartheid policies
pushed millions of black South Africans into overcrowded and impoverished
reserves, homelands and townships.
In addition, capital-intensive agricultural policies led to the
large-scale eviction of farm dwellers from their land and homes. The abolition
of the Land Acts cannot redress inequities in land distribution. Only a tiny
minority of black people can afford land on the free market.
A national land reform programme is the central and driving force
of a programme of rural development. Such a programme aims to address
effectively the injustices of forced removals and the historical denial of
access to land.
It aims to ensure security of tenure for rural dwellers. And in
implementing the national land reform programme, and through the provision of
support services, the democratic government will build the economy by
generating large-scale employment, increasing rural incomes and eliminating
overcrowding.
The RDP must implement a fundamental land reform programme. This
programme must be demand-driven and must aim to supply residential and
productive land to the poorest section of the rural population and aspirant
farmers.
As part of a comprehensive
rural development programme, it must raise incomes and productivity, and must
encourage the use of land for agricultural, other productive, or residential
purposes.
The land policy must ensure security of tenure for all South
Africans, regardless of their system of land-holding. It must remove all forms
of discrimination in women's access to land.