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Pretoria Central 2 OCTOBER,OCTOBER, 202020220 • 012-842-030000112-2-848422--03030000 Living conditions at the homeless shelter in the CBD. Left: Gauteng Department of Social Development MEC Nomathemba Mokgethi. R10m facelift for homeless shelter ‘Of all the shelters that I have visited today, this one is the worst,’ says MEC. Reitumetse Mahope documents) and the Department of shelter would be decommissioned. Health to assist with medical needs “I am strongly looking into The Struben Street shelter for the as well as non-profi t organisations decommissioning it because of the homeless in the Pretoria CBD would to provide skills and job readiness [poor] conditions [here].” Nomathemba be shut down temporarily and its programmes. “The homeless here will be placed Mokgethi during her residents moved to other shelters The campaign has already been in other shelters. There are other visit to the Struben while it is refurbished to the tune of rolled out in Johannesburg, the West beautiful shelters throughout the Sreet shelter in the R10-million, a provincial government Rand, Ekurhuleni, Sedibeng and metro.” Pretoria CBD. MEC has revealed. Tshwane. She described the Akasia shelter, This follows a visit to the facility She said the Tshwane social for instance, as “excellent”. by Gauteng Department of Social development and community “As you can see, the Strubenen Development MEC Nomathemba department has been using a model Street shelter is not safe. Thus,s, the Mokgethi earlier this week. diff erent to the strategies and models department and metro must mmoveove “Out of all the shelters that I have implemented by other shelters in the quickly to move the occupantsts and visited today, this one is the worst,” province.
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