'I had no idea that waiting for an RDP house would last a lifetime' - 100-year-old man still waiting for promised home | GroundUp_News
Dibapalo Boy Mohedo is 100 years old. He lives in a two-roomed shack in an informal settlement with his wife, Johanna Tsibande, and their orphaned grandchildren, aged 10 and 13. The couple have been waiting for an RDP house for 22 years,Mohedo used to work on a farm in Balfour, but he had to leave at the age of 78, when the farmer said he could no longer stay for free on the property. That was in 1997.
She says someone else moved into the house and they promised another one. They went to the municipality several times, but they were never helped. "It’s painful to realise that our house at 2 455 was swallowed up just like that. We have been waiting for another house, but who knows if ever we will get it while we are still alive," she says.
The shack has no electricity. Other people in Snake Park have illegal connections, but Mohedo and Tsibande cannot afford the cost – about R300 a month.
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