Deputy President of the African National Congress (ANC) Paul Mashatile says the party is working hard to improve service delivery and deliver houses in poor areas such as Khayelitsha, in Cape Town.
Mashatile is visiting Khayelitsha in the run-up to the party’s January 8th Statement for its 113th birthday programme.
The birthday celebration will be held in Khayelitsha next weekend.
Mashatile started his programme on Sunday with a visit to a church in the area and interacted with community members.
National Chairperson Gwede Mantashe and the party’s Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula have also visited various areas in Cape Town.
Mashatile says the ANC is also working on long-term solutions to deal with the regular shack fires in the Western Cape.
“Recently we have seen in the Western Cape problems of shacks that are burning because people build their shacks with materials that are flammable. In fact, the Deputy Minister spent a lot of the festive period going around these communities trying to work with them to address those kinds of problems. So we are going to continue to work with them, to address the problems that they have raised with us before.”
ANC’s Deputy President Paul Mashatile is in Cape Town ahead of the party’s January 8 celebrations:
