Comments from MEC on Rammed Earth buildings,

The Kzn MEC for education was very interested in learning all he could in the short time we had to speak but was quite surprised that the work was being done in the community By THE COMMUNITY .

If all goes well with the inspectors and engineers and architects it looks quite positive that the government will fund future buildings

Our examples of what we can do with unskilled labour and material harvested on site are exemplary

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