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SASSA pensioner builds her own house faster than the government

Government has left scores of houses for Eastern Cape storm victims incomplete

Nomondo Mboyi stands beside a house government has been building since 2023. Behind her is the mud-brick house she has built herself in the meantime. Photo: Yamkela Ntshongwana

Nomonde Mboyi, 67, has spent three years building herself a mud-brick house with her old age grant.
Her government house in Ndakeni, Eastern Cape, has only a foundation and part of its walls. Not one of the 200 houses meant for 2019 storm victims has been finished.
The Eastern Cape Department of Human Settlements says it fired the contractor for poor performance. The contractor says the department hasn’t paid it for a year.

When the government told Nomonde Mboyi, 67, three years ago that they would build her a new house after…

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