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Long wait for the poor to get housing

The South African government rolled out 750 000 houses for the poor in the last four years bringing the total to 3.3 million since 1994 but there is still a backlog of 2.1 million houses for between eight and 10 million people.

Though the ruling African National Congress if committed to the poor and shall not abandon them, Human Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale said on Wednesday the continuous allocation of grants for free housing to the poor was not sustainable.

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The Insider is a political and business bulletin about Zimbabwe, edited by Charles Rukuni. Founded in 1990, it was a printed 12-page subscription only newsletter until 2003 when Zimbabwe's hyper-inflation made it impossible to continue printing.

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