NEWS: Need a free house? Under 40? Tough: Sisulu

Anyone younger than 40 will not get a free house from the government, Human Settlements Minister Lindiwe Sisulu said on Tuesday.

"Anybody below the age of 40 will need to understand that they are not our priority unless they are special needs or are heads of child-headed households," Sisulu told reporters in Durban.

"Our intention in giving free houses was to right the wrongs of the past and make sure that we can give our people dignity. And that group of people is not the people below the age of 40," she said on the sidelines of the 6th Planning Africa Conference.

She said the government had "received a lot of flak" for not providing free housing to young people.
She said that the message to young people needed to be clear -- that they would not receive free housing. She said the government had made this clear, but many young people still had expectations of free housing.

"I don't know of a country that gives free houses to young people. Free housing in a few years will be something of the past. You [the young people] have lost nothing [to apartheid]."

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