Serai's new home has no toilet, running water and electricity. She said she still uses a pit toilet.
Dimakatso Serai, 38, stands in front of the three-room shack she was given by government./Douglas Mthukwane
A mother who of six was handed a new shack by the government is grateful for the gesture but she says she still needs a proper house. Yesterday, Dimakatso Serai, 38, spoke out for the first time after images of Northern Cape transport MEC Lebogang Motlhaping cutting a red ribbon at the official handover of her three-room shack in Inkandla settlement at Hartswater went viral.
Serai, whose plight was picked upon by the department after her 10-year-old son Refentse died in a school bus accident, had been living in a dilapidated one-room shack. "I am grateful for the gesture. It was necessitated by the death of my child in February, I never asked for help."There's now enough space for all my six children. I am asking myself why they didn't bring furniture as there's so much space available now."The department took down pictures of the official ribbon-cutting ceremony and handover of the shack from its social media page after public outrage.
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