Africa-Press – Lesotho. A multinational construction company, RGS through its subsidiary company, Rags Building Solutions (RBS) Construction Ls will venture into a huge building
project where 90 000 affordable houses will be constructed for Basotho across the entire country before the end of this year. The company is known for specialty in eco-friendly property development across
Africa for various types of buildings and homes. Its houses are build using new innovative methods and green technology systems that support green living.
As revealed by the RBS Construction Ls Marketing and Sales Manager Pakazitha Mokenela, the construction company started operating 5 years back in South
Africa (SA) Cape-Town where it pioneered the green technology innovation, being the first company in the whole African continent to adopt this technology.
Mokenela said the project will kick-start before the end of November and the houses will be fully installed with solar panels, borehole systems, 2 500 litres JoJo tanks
and a bio-gas facility technology. He said they will start building in Maseru district. “Basotho constructors also stand a chance to partake in the project by sending through
their profiles,” he said. He further said the system is not familiar to Basotho and the intention is to engage them into the project so that their engineers
can impart their skills to them. He clarified that it is going to take about two weeks to build a house as they use slabs instead of bricks for construction.
Mokenela said the project is targeted at low income earners. “We want people to move from rental houses to owning a house from a very affordable price,” he stated.
He emphasized that their houses will be fully insured and incases of owner’s death, the next of kin will be entitled to proceed with the payments. He said the
estimated time for full payments is 10 to 15 years and payment methods are flexible to one’s preference. He said they work closely with the four commercial banks in Lesotho, Standard Lesotho Bank (SLB), Nedbank, First
National Bank (FNB) and Lesotho Post Bank (LPB) to assist Basotho with payments. The houses are estimated to last for 150 years owing to the quality of materials utilized
in the construction. “They can handle climate change and are sound proved,” Mokenela charged. He said their vision is to create sustainable communities that will be efficient and self-sustainable. The initiative is also in partnership with the Government of Lesotho and Lesotho Housing.
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