Woman celebrates building home on less than N50k salary
- @Samke_nkwanyan shared an image of her new home to Twitter recently and peeps could not be more proud
- The young lady only had a salary of R2,000 (N49,948.22) and built her beautiful home over a period of four months
- @Samke_nkwanyan said she had savings, had to take a loan, and asked for help from friends and family but she still did it
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Celebrating wins will always bring smiles to faces. Especially when the achievement comes from hard work. @Samke_nkwanyan did just that as she shared an image of the house she worked hard to build.
According to @Samke_nkwanyan, it took four months to complete the building of her home as her salary is R2,000 (N49,948.22). @Samke_nkwanyan went on to say in a follow-up tweet that she did have R10,000 (N250,055.63) in savings.
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She took a loan of R5,000 (N124,975.00), which she paid back from August to now. Even with her savings, loan, and salary, she still struggled. @Samke_nkwanyan said she asked for help from family and friends who did all they could to assist.
Take a look at her tweets below:
South Africans could only feel pride at her lovely accomplishment and shared so in her replies:
@Layne_JazzeySA wrote:
"This is very nice. It's the beginning. If you can build a house with R2K then you will do bigger things when God promotes you to another tax bracket. 4 months is even very short. I'm so proud of you and inspired!!!"
@tNaxe23 said:
"Big or small, it doesn't matter. This is yours, your name is on the deed, woe to whoever has anything negative to say."
@Selokelaboledi tweeted:
"I am proud of you girl."
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Meanwhile, Legit.ng earlier reported that Hlelile Mbanda (25) has brought joy and happiness to her parents by building them a mansion after decades of living in falling mud houses.
According to some residents, she is the first person to build such a house at her age in her neighbourhood in eMaphephetheni, Ndwedwe.
Speaking to Legit.ng, Hlelile said it has been always her dream to get her parents out of their misery.
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