491 Families will become proud owners of houses as part of a project that will see the eventual>construction of 4654 housing units which is ready to handover to beneficiaries. The types of houses that will be handed over are called Finance Linked Individual Subsidy Programme (FLISP) housing which is the first for the Northern Cape and it is envisaged that Lerato Park will set the trend for all housing development in the Northern Cape and beyond.

The Lerato Park Integrated Housing Project is a formerly designated National Priority Project devised in line with Government’s Comprehensive Plan for the Development of Sustainable Human Settlement (Comprehensive Plan) of 2004 and seeks to facilitate the creation of a dignified and integrated suburb of 4 654 housing opportunities that could achieve sustainable development outcomes for the community as a whole.

Date: Thursday, 3 October 2013
Place: Lerato Park, Kimberly
Time: 09h00

All media are invited to cover the hand over and are requested to rsvp by 5pm on the 2nd October 2013 for accreditation purpose to Xoliswa.Salman@dhs.gov.za. For further information contact Xoliswa Salman on 084 293 7617 or Gamiem Abrahams on 083 4566 161.