Mountain View housing project in Ocean View — PICTURE: THEMBELA NTONGANA If you’re on a housing list, don’t break up with your partner. That’s the lesson from the story of Diana Kok, who lost the house she’d spent 13 years waiting for when she separated from her husband.Every day, Kok would go and check on the construction of her house in Ocean View. She watched the laying of the foundations; saw the windows being put in. But then, she didn’t get the house.A beneficiary of the Mountain View housing project, Kok had been on the waiting list for 13 years. A backyarder at her sister’s place for the past ten years, she is a domestic worker. She has no permanent employment.When she initially applied, she signed the application together with her husband. Nine years later they separated.When the day came for her to sign to get the key for her house, she found her ex-husband was also there to sign. Kok said she could not live together with him in the house. Mayoral Committee Member for Huma...
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