Housing Minister Lindiwe Sisulu handed over 10 houses at an ”innovation hub” in Soshanguve, Pretoria on Thursday.
The project will afford people who have new innovations the opportunity to have their materials tested and, if approved, the materials will be used to build dwellings.
The building would take place at the hub where there are currently 200 stands.
If any innovations are approved, they would then be financed by a bank.
The 10 homes were built using some of the materials already approved in the hub, including metal, wood, concrete and meshed fences.
Sisulu said the hub should become a place of enlightenment, vision and creativity and added that ”no half-baked shoddy work will be allowed” there.
Seventeen students were also granted bursaries by the National Home Builder Registration Council to further their studies in construction and other fields supporting housing innovation and delivery.
The hub was named after Eric Molobi, previous chairperson of the National Housing Forum.
”As a result of his efforts the capital-housing subsidy was introduced and became the founding basis for our delivery to date of 2,4-million houses since the achievement of democracy in 1994,” she said.
Molobi died in June last year. – Sapa