About 300 plots will be dished out to landless residents of Grootfontein.
The beneficiaries include scores of residents, who for many years have been squatting at the dilapidated and apartheid-era single quarters. The single quarters provided housing to labourers before independence. There are 400 rooms with more than 1 000 inhabitants.
The property is dilapidated without proper ablution facilities.
The allocation of plots will be overseen by urban and rural development minister Erastus Uutoni, according to municipal council spokesperson Luke Salomo.
“The beneficiaries will include the youth and also those from Kap n Bou movement, as well as the San, who were living in cardboard boxes in the vicinity of single quarters. There are also 37 households that were flooded and will now be relocated to the informal settlement,” said Salomo.