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HOP huise word gebruik
as onderhandelings
wapen
Die Demokratiese Alliansie is woedend ten
opsigte van die Departement van
Koöperatiewe Regering, Tradisionele Sake en
Huisvesting se taktiese pogings om wettelose
jeug wat die ANC gedurende die aanloop na
die plaaslike verkiesing ondersteun het, met
HOP huise te beloon.
Dit het aan die lig gekom dat die departement
die Loeriesfontein behuisingslys probeer
manipuleer. Voldoende en deursigtige
prosesse was gevolg toe die prioriteitslys van
100 name deur DA raadslid Gizella Opperman,
sowel as die
gemeenskapsontwikkelingswerker en
wykskomiteelede wie nie ‗n persoonlike belang
by die HOP huise het nie, opgestel was. Dit
was in opvolg op ‗n versoek vanaf die
departement dat ‗n prioriteitslys bymekaar
gestel word vir 100 huise wat leeg staan. Soos
voorgeskryf word, was alle name vanaf die
prioriteitslys afkomstig van die oorspronklike
behuisingslys. Verder was voorkeur gegee
aan bejaardes, mense in informele
nedersettings, gestremdes, mense wie al vir
tussen 17 en 30 jaar op die waglys is,
ensovoorts. Die gefinaliseerde lys is toe aan
die publiek beskikbaar gestel.
Maar vandat die prioriteitslys gefinaliseer is,
het lede van die gemeenskap wie na hul eie
belange omsien, amok gemaak. Polisielede
vanaf Upington was ingeroep om die plaaslike
polisie by te staan en gedurende twee
verskillende optogte is derduisende rande se
skade aan die HOP huise aangerig. Die
betogers het verder die HOP huise onwettig
beset. Bogenoemde kostes plus addisionele
kostse vir die huur van ses sekuriteitswagte
om ‗n ogie oor die huise te hou, moet nou deur
die Hantam munisipaliteit gedra word. Die
opstokers word deur familielede van die vorige
raadslid wie nou deur raadslid Opperman
vervang is, gelei. Dit blyk dat die vorige
raadslid beloftes aan die betogers gemaak het
dat hulle HOP huise sou ontvang in ruil vir
hulle ondersteuning aan die ANC.
Intussen het die departement ook hul agter die
betogers geskaar. ‗n Lys van 15 name wat
hulle wil hệ op die prioriteitslys geakkomodeer
moet word, is aan die Hantam munisipaliteit
gegee. Die DA is geskok dat dié 15 name
dieselfde persone is wat skade aan die HOP
huise aangerig het.
Dit is heeltemal onaanvaarbaar dat die
departement die regerende party se politieke
belange dien deur kiesers wie hulle stemme
aan die regerende party gegee het, met HOP
huise te beloon. HOP huise is nie ‗n
onderhandelings wapen nie. Die huise is
bedoel vir die armste en mees behoeftige
mense van ons samelewing.
Die DA sal die feit dat staatsfonde weereens
vir politieke doeleindes misbruik word aan die
Openbare Beskermer rapporteer.
ANDREW LOUW, LPW DA NOORD-KAAP: LEIER
Een vyfde van land
woon in HOP-huise
Ongeveer ‗n vyfde van Suid-
Afrikaanse huishoudings woon luidens
Statistiek Suid-Afrika se algemene
opname oor huishoudings, wat
Donderdag bekendgestel is, in
staatsgesubsidieerde huise.
―Teen die tyd van die opname het
18,9% van Suid-Afrikaanse
huishoudings in "HOP"-, of
staatsgesubsidieerde, huise gewoon,‖
het Statistiek Suid-Afrika in ‗n verslag
gesê.
Uit hierdie is vroulike huishoudings
meer geneig as manlike huishoudings
om subsidies vir behuising van die
regering te kry.
Dertien persent van die respondente
het gesê minstens een lid van die
huishouding is op ‗n waglys vir ‗n
HOP-huis.
―In 2010, net soos in vorige jare, was
huishoudings waarvan vroue aan die
hoof staan (11%) meer geneig om ‗n
behuisingsubsidie by die regering te
kry as dié waarvan mans aan die hoof
is (8,8 persent).‖
Sommige inwoners is egter besorg
oor die gehalte van hierdie
gesubsidieerde huise.
Sewentien persent van inwoners het
landwyd gesê die mure is swak of
baie swak en 18 persent het dieselfde
van die dak gesê.
Statistiek Suid-Afrika het egter gevind
daar is ―aansienlike variasie tussen
provinsies in terme van hoe mense
behuising-gehalte beskou‖.
Die meeste klagtes het uit die Wes-,
Oos- en Noord-Kaap gekom.
―Huishoudings in Gauteng en
Mpumalanga blyk die mees tevrede
met die gehalte van hul huise en
dakke te wees.‖
Die proporsie mense wat in informele
huise woon, is 13 persent – dieselfde
as in 2002.
―Terwyl die proporsie informele huise
afgeneem het in provinsies soos
KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo en
Mpumalanga, was daar toenames in
Gauteng, Noordwes en die Wes-
Kaap."
Gauteng het die hoogste persentasie
inwoners in informele huise (22
persent), gevolg deur Noordwes
(19%), die Wes-Kaap (17%) en die
Vrystaat (13%).
A silent epidemic of rape
A silent epidemic of rape is devouring our young girls
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in the townships. Lost Girls in South Africa is a
documentary currently on circuit, tracing the effects of
rape on girl children, their mothers, their families, right
through to the ineffectual responses of the police and
the courts.
Offenders are no longer just fathers, brothers, uncles,
and brothers; they are much younger, many of them
schoolboys in the neighbourhood, known to the girls.
Life is a nightmare for thousands of girls as they grow
up in informal settlements and the rural areas, the
targets of men and boys who cannot keep their sexual
urges under control.
One of the worst aspects of these stories is the collusion
between the rapists and their mothers against the raped
and their mothers. Exemplifying worst types of
complicity, one cannot help but feel enraged at the
gross incompetence of an emasculated state that does
not care.
Profiling the lives of Ntombi, Fuzeka, Gretchen and
Nozuko, aged from 11 to 13, the documentary exposes
the inner trauma suffered by girls, who lose their
childhood and become old way before their time. The
portrayal of the disruptive effects on their school life, on
the relationships between mothers and fathers, and
amongst neighbours is wrenching.
Ntombi's rapists, who are virtually her neighbours, stalk
and taunt her while released on bail, knowing full well
that the criminal justice system is as futile as the police
who routinely fail to maintain their grip on offenders.
The terror in her eyes is palpable as she navigates her
way from school, to her home, or run errands for her
mother. Social workers and the police admit that they
are powerless in executing their duties, blaming the
courts as much as the courts blame their ineptitude.
Fuzeka who is sexually molested by her father is caught
between her distraught mother who must act to stop the
abuse but who knows that in doing so, she must leave
her home for a shack with no running water and
electricity.
Happier under horrible conditions, her husband
harasses them day and night and daily they have to run
the gauntlet of a patriarch who could not cope with a
wife who removed from him the source of his sexual
terrorism. Fuzeka feels crushed as she has to deal with
the guilt of separating her parents as well as tending to
a mother riddled with AIDS.
Gretchen who claims that her father molests her while
her mother goes out to work at night, seeks the custody
of her school until a safe place is found for her. Denying
the charges, the father blames his misdemeanours on
drugs, refusing to take responsibility for any of his
actions. I
Nozuko lives with the guilt of a father jailed for
murdering her rapist. Carrying this burden denies her
the space to mourn her own violation.
The most searing scenes in this movie are the
predicament these girls face, having to juggle their own
survival with dealing with the consequences of
disclosing the sexual violations to their parents and the
authorities.
Robbed of the joy of being children, they are constantly
thrown into situations where they are compelled to
philosophise about the meaning of life, or whether death
is not a better option.
As a mother of a young woman, this documentary was
hard to watch and it starkly exposed the destruction of
the moral fabric of SA. A more appropriate title would
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be: How SA loses its Girls Every Day!
This article first appeared in Die Burger
Rhoda Kadalie
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