SA Affordable Housing July / August 2017 // Issue: 65 | Page 34

PROJECTS
Solar panels will be installed on each unit.
“Cities across the country are
faced with urbanisation. The
strategic decision we have taken,
is that we need to promote
densification, which will allow us
to vertically grow the city as the
horizontal growth prospects are
constrained on a daily basis,”
he says.
The project is split into two
phases, with phase one
completed in February 2017.
Raubex is currently busy with
phase two and expects to finish
the project in November this year.
“Each block ranges from 24 to
28 units with solar geysers; we
installed the solar geysers to be
environmentally friendly,” says
project manager, Solly Mabunda.
People from the nearby
Madel’ukhufa Township have
moved in already, with more
people scheduled to move in in
completed units. “This is a five-
year project, so more blocks will
be going up,” he says.
A shopping centre is also in the
pipeline and a school is already
under construction.
32
JULY - AUGUST 2017
AFFORDABLE
SA HOUSING
Four-storey RDP units under construction.