​The Solomon Mahlangu Sport and Recreation Centre was built at a cost R19,5 million. The centre boasts facilities to accommodate traditional sporting codes such as soccer, netball and basketball. In addition, indigenous and traditional games will also be offered.

Over 800 residents attended the service delivery roadshow and engaged with Councillor Ntsodo and City officials who were on hand to attend to their enquiries. The roadshow formed part of the official opening of the recreational centre.

The Housing and City Health Departments received the highest number of enquiries and service requests on the day. In addition, the water demand management team also fielded a large number of enquiries and service requests.

Councillor Ntsodo thanked the residents for coming out in their numbers and provided feedback on the various projects that the City was busy with in the area. These included electrification projects and the Enkanini enumeration project. The enumeration of Enkanini will see 200 Extended Public Works Programme (EPWP) job opportunities being created. A group of EPWP workers will be deployed to count the structures in this area so that proper informal settlement development can take place in the future.

‘We have appointed a professional team to start with the planning and design of nine different sites in Khayelitsha. Draft layouts of what the land components will look like have been prepared and will be presented to the steering committees and the City’s internal departments for approval in the near future. The environmental investigations have also commenced and progress has been good thus far. The four erven that make up the Mahama project will see close to 700 housing opportunities being developed in the future’ said Councillor Ntsodo.

‘I would also like to thank the 67 families who were relocated in Zwelitsha to make way for a school that has now been built. It is important that we all work together to make progress possible. But communities need to work with us to safeguard their facilities. We need them to be our eyes and ears on the ground and to make sure that these facilities are not vandalised,’ said Councillor Ntsodo.

Residents, especially those living in informal settlements, used the opportunity to raise a number of concerns. They were happy with the progress that had been made in some of their areas but called for faster delivery of services. They raised issues about Enkanini Hill that informal settlements have undertaken to level and develop. Councillor Ntsodo assured residents that the various concerns had been noted and that they would receive feedback with regard to their challenges.

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