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Angola: South Africa wishes to assist in rehabilitation of infrastructures

Luanda - The South African government expressed its desire to assist Angola in the rehabilitation of housing infrastructures, ANGOP learnt this Tuesday here from the Angolan press attaché to that country, António do Nascimento.

According to the source, at the moment the South African government is studying ways to survey the eight provinces of the south of Angola it intends to assist, in the light of the project of one million houses announced by the Angolan Head of State, José Eduardo dos Santos.

With this purpose, the source added that a South African delegation recently met in Luanda with the minister of Urbanisation and Housing of Angola, José Ferreira, with whom they signed a protocol of understanding for the start implementation of the project.

South Africa wishes to build low-income homes in the provinces of Huambo, Bié, Kuando Kubango, Benguela, Moxico, Lunda Norte and Lunda Sul.

"The experts are already surveying the regions, and are only waiting for an authorisation from Angola to implement the project that already has a secure funding, which is estimated at millions of dollars", the source stressed.