What happened to South Africas promise of low-cost housing?
\u201cLife here is difficult. You have to be a resilient person to survive. There\u2019s no electricity. The roads are almost non-existent. In sunny days, the shack gets too hot. You can\u2019t stay inside. When it\u2019s cold, it gets very cold. When it\u2019s raining, it gets flooded\u201d \u2013 Lala Maria Sebetlele, a resident of a Johannesburg shanty town\n \nWhen Nelson Mandela\u2019s African National Congress took over in 1994, it introduced the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP). It\u2019s a policy that aims to build low-cost homes for the poor, thus reversing the legacy of apartheid.\n \nMore than three million such houses have since been built, but many people still live in shanty towns due to a variety of reasons. They include internal migration and rapid urbanization.\n \nThe University of Johannesburg has now come up with an initiative to use 3D printing technology to construct low-cost houses to help ease the accommodation burden. How exactly does it work? And will it make a difference?\n \nPresenter: Alan Kasujja\n \nGuests: Lala Maria Sebetlele, Dr. Alec Moemi and Professor Jeffrey Mahachi