DA Gauteng says elderly left in the cold as Tembisa Old Age Home remains closed [SOUND]

# The DA in Gauteng says the provincial Department of Social Development has not opened the 30-million-rand state-of-the-art Tembisa Old Age Home, which has a capacity of 59 beds. The party’s Refiloe Nt’sekhe says this inaction by the department has left many elderly residents of Tembisa without a safe and reliable place to stay. She says the department still needs to appoint a non-profit organisation to manage the facility: