Ramaphosa claims victory despite massive housing backlog

Johnathan Paoli, Phuti Mosomane and Tlholohelo Mosala

The party’s annual January 8 presidential gala took place on Friday evening, with the party president Cyril Ramaphosa giving a keynote address alluding to some of the main themes he would be covering at the rally on Saturday.

The gala dinner was held at the Church on the Hill conference centre in Mbombela which saw various business leaders and stakeholders being addressed by the party president, deputy Paul Mashatile as well as the national executive committee members.

Ramaphosa opened the gala evening dinner with a reference to the actualization of the ruling party’s promises, despite contradictions expressed from the people.

Specifically naming an anonymous woman, the president praised the building of the “new RDP houses” valued at R160 000.

However, in March last year the government claimed that the average amount spent to build RDP houses was