In 2015, the residents of Slovo Park took the City to court for its failure to provide services to them after, what was then, 21 years of democracy.
The judgement stated: “For all of this time they have lived in deplorable conditions, they have no access to electricity, shack fires break out at a rate of 1 every 2 months and are often fatal and ambulances refuse to collect the sick from Slovo Park because the roads are not formally demarcated, do not appear on a map, are not signposted and as a result individual residents cannot be located.”
I made a promise to the people of Slovo Park that our government will bring electricity to their homes. This is part of our pro-poor agenda to uplift those communities that cannot help themselves.
– Johannesburg Mayor, Herman Mashaba
On the 19th of February this year, the residents of Slovo Park, for the first time, awoke to the sounds of the City installing electricity and roads in their community.
In addition, a total of 3734 informal households in Slovo Park will be electrified by the first week of June 2018, and a total of 3000 RDP homes in Elias Motsoaledi will be connected to electricity towards the end of June 2018.
This matter is not only about service delivery. It is about bringing dignity to our people.
– Johannesburg Mayor, Herman Mashaba
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