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00:00Located in the southwest of East London lies the Orange Groove Box with 3,500 project.
00:08With an original project budget of R199,890,000 that covers pre-planning studies, infrastructure designs and approvals,
00:18construction of gravel roads, stormwater management for bus routes, bulk line installations,
00:24and a construction of a 6-megaliter reservoir,
00:28this project has been successful in completing the pre-planning investigation.
00:37National employment, we've had from different wads, there's three wads involved,
00:44I think, what, 46, what, 47, what, 48, which we've employed as over 68 local people
00:53employed on a national minimum wage, and where we spent just over 5 million in terms of wages
01:03on those people.
01:05Skills transfer, and some of them now are finishing off the job as being pipe layers,
01:12able to do all the skilled work around laying sewers, the house connections, the manuals,
01:21you name them, so, which mostly were men, as we're dealing with deep, deep trenches, so the
01:28requirement was just mostly men that got involved in this stage of the project.
01:34Females, we didn't have much on site except just admin staff that assisted us in the office
01:43in terms of admin.
01:45Females, starting from the roof clearing, designing of the roads, the water network, the sewer network,
01:54the plots themselves, the stands, the condition points, a whole lot.
01:58That's where we started, which was the phase of the pre-planning of the actual project itself.
02:06The Department of Human Settlements will implement this project in three phases, with 1,404 units
02:15estimated for completion in phase one.
02:18After completion, this project is earmarked to benefit a total of 3,500 beneficiaries, providing
02:25not just brick and mortar, but adding to the Department's commitment to transforming communities
02:32together, leaving no one behind.
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