My Mind on AlexKasi Article 1 Date: 2014/11/07 Author: Richard Rangwanasha
Botlhabela Village About the Project The "Bothlabela" project is situated on the corners of Lenin Drive and Thoko Mngoma Street at the Far East Bank in Alexandra Township, surrounded by council flats and RDP houses. The project was developed by the Alexandra Renewal Project (ARP ) and handed over to JOSHCO for management in July 2008.
Botlhabela Village Phase 2 About Project The community of Alexandra it has released about the corruption and indecency of the state to allow improper management of the housing allocation in Alexandra. This has however caused yet even more of the community members to fight for the accommodation in Botlhabela village phase 2. Which the state does not have proper intervention due to their acceptance of briber received from those whom wanted their names to be consider at first priority before house can be allocated to them. It has been said and confirmed that the management of ARP and Joshco accepted a bribery fee of R3000 to R3500 as a reserve for the smooth allocation of the property to the people of Alexandra. Despite of usual names of the ARP and Joshco management who have already caused riots on the allocation of the properties in River park, Village Phase 1 and Tsotsomane project of RDP house, the government still fail to clean its own mess behind close doors. The community has realized the nakedness of the government accepting briberies from the desperate community members of Alexandra. This has resulted in a dispute and confusion among the true bonafide members of Alexandra. The community believes that the state and its stakeholders must review its qualifying criteria to allocate people in Bothlabela phase 2, and to concider that failure to do so will result in an uncertainty of the state to even lose or be responsible for the lives of those who will be occupying the premises and accepted by the state.