The Democratic Alliance is calling for an investigation by an independent external service provider into the accuracy of beneficiary housing lists in Buffalo City Metro.
The party tabled the motion for the coming council meeting, which is scheduled for later this month.
A number of unemployed and low-income earners, who have applied and not yet received RDP homes, have been questioning the credibility of the government’s promise of free housing.
BCM has been struggling to provide RDP housing since the early 2000s, which has led to the national department of housing taking over the function late last year.
Last week people illegally started occupying unfinished RDP houses in Fynbos.BCM mayor Xola Pakati said allegations of manipulation of housing lists was the number one reason for some of the city’s most violent protests.
He said the metro was fully aware of the allegations.
“Although the national department continues to administer the accreditation of RDP houses, we are still responsible for ensuring that our residents get basic services, and to us housing is a basic service.
“We have been trying to deal with cases as they are presented because they have been different throughout.“We have yet to devise a plan on how we will deal with the crisis but we are aware that there is a crisis with the beneficiary lists,” said Pakati.
So far 2018 has been a year of frequent community protests in the metro, fuelled by growing frustration with RDP housing developments in a number of areas, including seven in Fynbos and the nearby suburb of East Bank.
Nkoliso Makhanya, 56, told the Dispatch he has waited for a house since 1997, which is when he first applied.
He said he supported the illegal occupation because he believed it would show the government the seriousness of the problem.
“We look at houses being built right in front of our eyes but given to other people who were not even born when we registered,” he said.
The DA’s Richard Rooy said his party did not condone the illegal occupation of unfinished RDP houses in the Fynbos area, and was determined to establish why some residents had resorted to illegal occupation...