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Nokhanya Services has given momentum to a transformational housing project in Dido Valley near Simon’s Town
NOKHANYA SERVICES AND AFRISAM PUT QUALITY FIRST AT DIDO VALLEY With its important land restitution component, the City of Cape Town’s Dido Valley housing project near Simon’s Town on the Cape Peninsula has been solidly progressed by contractor Nokhanya Services and construction materials leader AfriSam.
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he overall project comprises 600 Breaking New Ground (BNG) state-subsidised houses, with 100 allocated to land restitution claims – relating to the forced removals of families from Simon’s Town in the 1960s. Nokhanya Services spent a year on-site completing their portion of the project between 2022 and 2023. “This is not just a normal local housing project; it’s about redressing historical injustices and restoring communities to the areas from which their ancestors were
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The overall project comprises of 600 Breaking New Ground (BNG) state-subsidised houses, with 100 allocated to land restitution claims
displaced,” says Faith Mabena, Owner and Director of Nokhanya Ser vices. “It was crucial to uphold standards and the finishing touches reflect the commitment. Beneficiaries were consulted on personal design elements such as awnings, tiles and paint colours to make their homes genuinely feel like their own.” AfriSam contributed its own quality focus to the project, regularly testing its readymix concrete and other materials as part of its standard quality control procedures, according to Bradley Thomas, Territor y
Sales Manager for AfriSam. More than this, AfriSam also took regular test results from the site, giving the contractor and end-client detailed confirmation of concrete quality and specifications pertaining to the approved mix designs. “We sampled every major pour to guarantee the integrity of the concrete, meeting the stringent standards set by the city,” says Thomas. This meant having AfriSam’s technical laboratory on site and ready for the readymix truck’s arrival so that samples could be taken and the tests conducted.