Residents from Gubevu Street at Kosovo informal settlement in Samora Machel are concerned about their health due to blocked drains and stormwater pipes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Incensed residents claim they have been dealing with the problem for more than five months and some families have been forced to vacate their shacks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The residents are accusing the municipality of abandoning them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Resident Momelezi Mtambeka described the area as the dirtiest area in the province if not in the entire country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said provincial authorities should be ashamed for bragging about being the most beautiful town in the world while there are people who stay under such conditions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMany people left their shacks because of the sewage that is stuck in front of their houses. Some people have skin rash while the children have ringworms. Others are suffering with diarrhoea. The whole area stinks,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mtambeka stated that residents previously barricaded the road with tyres for motorists not to drive through area. She urged the City to speed up the process to clean-up the area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhat we want is for the City to relocate people to the new houses or allocate them the serviced sites,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n