Lately, several people have fallen victim to various scams involving the selling of RDP houses in eMalahleni. People are desperate to own houses, but instead, they end up losing the little that they ...

Member of the Mayoral Committee (MMC) of Human Settlements in Johannesburg, Mlungisi Mabaso, has urged beneficiaries of Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) houses not to sell them. Mabaso ...

In 1999, shack dwellers in Mthatha were moved into 969 RDP homes, only to find the houses were very badly built. A rectification project started in 2017. It managed to demolish and rebuild about 100 ...

Although Anna Selahle’s application was approved in 2002, records show that no payments were made for a contractor to actually build her RDP house. Her own family, and the Napjane family of her ...

Annica Van Staden, 48; 51-year-old estate agent Helga Kruger; and 55-year-old Foto Boy Makua alias Fofo appeared in the Middelburg Regional Court on allegations of fraudulently selling RDP houses in ...

Residents in Mabopane and Germiston told parliament's portfolio committee on human settlements on Saturday they hope the Housing Consumer Protection Bill will be a solution to poorly built RDP houses.

Anna Tshose lives in a two-bedroom rundown shack in Makoseng 2, Rustenburg with her daughter and three grandchildren. She says she has ben applying for an RDP house for years but the Department of ...

Theirs is one of more than 20,000 Breaking New Ground (BNG, formerly known as RDP) houses in the province that are incomplete, says Zimasa Mbewu, spokesperson for the Free State Department of Human ...

Human settlements minister Mmamoloko Kubayi has urged beneficiaries of RDP houses not to resell them or hand them over to loan sharks as this is a setback for work done by government. Kubayi made the ...

The quality of Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) houses has again come into the spotlight - this time in Limpopo. Residents say the government-issued homes are of extremely low quality ...

Selahle’s application for a Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) house from the government was approved in 2002. More than two decades later, the promise has not been fulfilled and she ...

A couple in Bolata village in the eastern Free State have waited 14 years for their RDP home to be finished. Theirs is one of more than 20,000 Breaking New Ground (BNG, formerly known as RDP) houses ...