Western Cape Housing MEC Bonginkosi Madikizela has promises anti-graft measures will be heightened as it is much too easy to defraud his department.

He addressed the Western Cape legislature on Wednesday when he unpacked his department’s R2 billion budget.

Madikizela wants to build 15 400 houses with his budget, but vowed that officials would return to homes already built to check whether the intended recipients still live there.

“People who are selling their houses and then go back to shacks benefit again because our systems are not really credible enough to be able to pick this up.”

Madikizela said they would either evict people occupying homes illegally or ask them to buy the structures from the province.