Mogale shack built after village s electrification

MOGALE ’ S shack is one of the few shacks that Eskom excluded from its list of homes that were electrified two months ago.

Local councillor Moreetsi Mpshapudi said a handful of shacks in the village did not have electricity.

“This village keeps on mushrooming, so they were not on the list at that time. We had to ask Eskom to come back to install electricity at a few of the houses that were not electrified,” he said.

Tswaing local municipality mayor Caesar Mogatosi said they were negotiating with the department of human settlements to build houses for the Deelpan community.

“I believe that by the end of the next term, every vil- lager will have electricity and running water in their houses,” he said.

Most of the villagers in Deelpan came from the neighbouring farms and they mostly rely on social grants for survival.

Early this year Sowetan reported that five children aged between three and 16 died in a shack fire in North West when their 32year-old mother left them unsupervised to go drinking at a tavern. The sixth child survived the blaze;

Last year, a five-year-old girl burnt to death in a shack fire in Limpopo. The girl’s mother was apparently away selling fruit at a market while her child was sleeping in the shack; and

In another incident last year, a mom and two of her children aged between two and four burnt to death inside a shack at Durban Deep informal settlement in Roodepoort on the West Rand. –