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Several shack owners in Kosovo informal settlement, along Laduma Street, have been forced to vacate their homes due to ongoing sewage problems in the area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to residents, they have had the problem for many years with no end in sight. Instead, homeowners have to seek alternative accommodation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sibusiso Minyi, one of the residents who left his shack, has been cohabiting with his girlfriend at the C section. He said the sewage emanates underground. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI decided to leave my shack because it is not safe. My life is at risk there. I wanted to remove my shack there, but I can\u2019t find another plot,\u201d he said, adding that he has been staying in the area for nine years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Minyi said their ward councillor knew their living conditions but did nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Community leader Thembinkosi Tokota said their lives are in God\u2019s hands. He said people, especially children, got sick because of the dirty water and sewage on the streets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe problem is in the manhole that needs to be fixed. It has collapsed. The City employees have fixed it several times, but it leaks again. We don\u2019t know why the City doesn\u2019t change the underground infrastructure. It\u2019s almost a decade or even beyond that we are living like this,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tokota claimed that the majority of people in the area are sick. He cited asthma and tuberculosis (TB) as some of the conditions prevalent in the area, with ringworms, diarrhea and rash common among children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ward 88 councillor Zukisani Sophazi blamed the old infrastructure for the mess. He cited that the whole underground infrastructure in the area had collapsed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is not only there in that section. Almost the whole of Kosovo has a sewage problem. The infrastructure needs to be changed. Last year, that manhole, in the B section, was fixed twice, but it leaks again,\u201d said Sophazi. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Commenting on the housing development in the neighbourhood, he said some people were relocated to new houses in Mitchell\u2019s Plain last year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere is a New Woodlands Housing Project that is in Mitchell\u2019s Plain. At least 217 people from Kosovo are expected to benefit from that project. We relocated people in phases last year. We are done with Phases 1 and 2. Now we are waiting to continue with the next phases,\u201d said Sophazi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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