Poor and homeless people in the 13 wards of Mutale Local Municipality are set to benefit from the allocation of 620 new RDP houses to be built this financial year.

The new deal of RDP houses was allocated to Mutale by the Department of Cooperative Governance, Human Settlements and Traditional Affairs as another way of decreasing the number of poor communities living without shelter, said Mutale Local Municipality Mayor Tshitereke Matibe.

“We urge our ward councillors to help identify the needy, poor and homeless people, so that we can speed up the delivery of houses. We want our poor communities to own and live in decent houses that we will build,” Matibe said.

He was joined by the acting executive mayor of the Vhembe District, Cllr Lucas Manyuha, who spoke on Friday in Makuya-Domboni outside Mutale during a Vhembe District Municipality imbizo.

During the event, several officials from departments such as SASSA, home affairs, government communication and information systems and education also helped the municipalities in answering questions from the communities who attended.

Communities were also urged to register the names of their companies on the municipality’s database, so that they may compete and bid for tenders advertised.