_: GOBABIS: The Gobabis single Quarters, one of a few such structures remaining countrywide, will soon be demolished to make way for future modern housing. The Gobabis Municipality also plans to re-locate people living at the current Single Quarters to a new spot that will be known as Omugulugwombashe.
The municipality is currently hard at work to finalise logistics to make sure the area is habitable and conforms to basic sanitation and hygiene requirements. According to officials at the municipality, the new area will also be clearly demarcated, while it will cater for at least 180 households from the Single Quarters.
The Single Quarters have reportedly become unhygienic, unsafe and overcrowded. As such, they have been declared unfit as dwellings for humans. At the new area, current occupants of the Single Quarters will live in corrugated iron houses where they will have to supply their own materials. Also, the same principle at the Canaan informal settlement, will apply, where each household will have a toilet.
Central water points will be erected to cater for households in proximity to each other.
Time frame for the completion of the process is yet to be set by the municipality.
According to the Chief Executive Officer of the Gobabis Town Council Efraim Dawids, the flocking of people to the town in hope of landing a job has placed tremendous pressure on the provision of accommodation at Gobabis.
He said when people fail to land such jobs; they opt to settle at the town’s informal residential area, putting a strain on development initiatives in the area. The total Gobabis population is now estimated at around 40 000, triggered by the huge influx of people looking for jobs. The influx generally leads to a high crime rate because of unemployment, a challenge that prompted the Municipality to implement measures such as those at Canaan and Omugulugwombashe.
(edited)GOBABIS; ) – The Gobabis Single Quarters, one of a few such structures remaining countrywide, will soon be demolished to make way for modern housing. The Gobabis Municipality also plans to relocate people living at the current single quarters to a new spot that will be known as Omugulugwombashe.
The municipality is currently hard at work finalising logistics to make sure that the area is habitable, and conforms to basic sanitation and hygiene requirements. According to officials at the municipality, the new area will also be clearly demarcated, and will cater for at least 180 households from the single quarters.
The single quarters here, a pre-independence phenomenon throughout the country where single, working males were housed, have now reportedly become unhygienic, unsafe and overcrowded.
As such, they have been declared unfit as dwellings for humans.
At the new area, current occupants of the single quarters will live in corrugated iron houses, where they will have to supply their own materials. Also, the same principle as at the Canaan informal settlement will apply, where each household will have a toilet.
Central waterpoints will be erected to cater for households in proximity to each other. The timeframe for the completion of the process is yet to be set by the municipality. According to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Gobabis Town Council, Efraim Dawids, the flocking of people to the town in the hope of landing a job has placed tremendous pressure on the provision of accommodation here.
He said when people fail to land such jobs, they opt to settle at the town’s informal residential areas, putting strain on developmental initiatives in the area. The town’s total population is now estimated at around 40 000, triggered by the huge influx of people looking for employment.