Inwoners van Vlakkeland lewe in vrees dat hul wonings volgende in vlamme sal uitbreek nadat sewe dubbelverdieping-wooneenhede glo reeds die afgelope vyf maande sedert November 2021 aan die brand geraak het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lede van die Drakenstein-plaaswag s\u00ea hulle het die laaste twee van die brandvoorvalle bygewoon. Die mees onlangse brand was op 28 Maart. Inwoners vermoed die probleem l\u00ea by die wooneenhede se elektriese stelsels. Al die brande het ook in die klein slaapkamer op die boonste verdieping uitgebreek. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2019n Paartjie wie se woning in Februarie gebrand het, is diep ongelukkig omdat hulle self \u2019n kontrakteur moes kry om die bedrading en kragproppe van die huis n\u00e1 die brand reg te maak. \u201cToe moes ek R800 betaal vir daai man [die kontrakteur]. Die kontrakteur en munisipaliteit het toe die krag getoets en dis toe weer aangesit. Dit het lank gevat; seker so twee weke. Die hele yskas was vol vleis en ons moes als weggooi,\u201d vertel die man, wat nie sy naam genoem wil h\u00ea nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2019n Geruime tyd voor die brand het hul kragproppe vonke gespoeg. Hy het die Drakenstein-munisipaliteit daarvan in kennis gestel. \u201cToe s\u00ea hulle maar die mense wat hier gebou het, moet dit kom regmaak. Toe vra ek waar ek die nommer kan kry, want hulle [die munisipaliteit] moet vir my die nommer voorsien. Hulle het nooit uitgekom totdat die huis gebrand het nie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens sy vrou was sy die dag van die brand alleen by die huis. Dit was voor 09:00 en sy was besig om aan te trek, want sy was op pad dorp toe. \u201cToe hoor ek net \u2019n kliek-geluid. Toe ek my kamerdeur oopmaak, sien ek net rooi by die klein kamer. Toe ek daardie deur oopmaak, brand die kamer al seker \u2019n hele kwartier, want toe is die hele kamer al aan die brand.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die brandweer was gou op die toneel en het die brand geblus voordat dit na die res van die huis kon versprei. Die vrou voel dit is \u2019n probleem dat hulle self die skade moet regmaak, alhoewel hulle nie die brand veroorsaak het nie. Sy s\u00ea wat haar nog meer hartseer maak, is dat hul raadslid verf belowe het, maar nooit met hulle n\u00e1 die brand opgevolg het nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOns voel nou ons is hier neergegooi en niks word gedoen nie. Ons kan maar gaan kla; dit kan maar brand \u2013 hier word niks gedoen nie. Volgens hulle [die munisipaliteit] is dit net ons skuld. Iets moet iewers gedoen word. Die mense praat van drade wat los l\u00ea bo [in die dak]. Dit moet mos in \u2019n pyp wees, maar niks l\u00ea in \u2019n pyp nie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Terwyl sy na die meubels kyk, s\u00ea die inwoner dit is net \u201caardse goed\u201d, maar as iemand sy lewe in \u2019n brand verloor, is dit \u2019n ander saak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sedert die kontrakteur hul bedrading en kragproppe n\u00e1 die brand vervang het, het daar nog nie weer vuurvonkies by hul kragproppe uitgekom nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In \u2019n afsonderlike voorval is n\u00f3g \u2019n inwoner se slaapkamer deur vlamme verswelg. Di\u00e9 brand het op 12 Januarie 2021 uitgebreek, en is nie deel van die afgelope vyf maande se brandvoorvalle nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy vertel sy en haar gesin het buite die huis gesit toe die bure skree hul kamer op die boonste verdieping is aan die brand. Hulle was nie bewus van die brand nie. Sy en haar gesin moes ook self vir die herstelwerk opdok. Sy is duidelik nog diep ontsteld oor die voorval en s\u00ea die munisipaliteit wil nou te kenne gee \u201cdat iemand die huis aan die brand gesteek het\u201d. Net soos die ander inwoners noem sy dat die bedrading in die dak \u2019n gevaar is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAs jy in die dak opgaan, sal jy die bedrading van die huise sien. Daai een Drakenstein-man het erken dit is baie swak gedoen, maar niemand kom vorendag nie. Die ander ding is ook as dit baie re\u00ebn, is dit reg rondom daai kragmeterboks binne, waar ons die krag indruk, sommer sopnat.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nog inwoners het aan Paarl Post<\/span> ges\u00ea hul kragproppe \u201cspoeg vuur\u201d en die krag skop uit as hulle meer as een toestel gebruik. Alhoewel \u2019n brand nie by hul woning uitgebreek het nie, voel \u2019n paartjie, wat al twee jaar in Vlakkeland woon, hulle moet ekstra versigtig wees \u2013 veral in die lig van al die brande wat in hul woonbuurt aangemeld is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Marius W\u00fcst, uitvoerende direkteur vir Drakenstein se ingenieursdienste, s\u00ea die Vlakkeland-behuisingsprojek word deur die Wes-Kaapse regering hanteer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Raadgewers en kontrakteurs wat by die projek betrokke is, is ook deur die provinsiale regering aangestel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDie provinsiale regering bestuur dus die elektriese stelsels se ontwerp (grootte, toevoer en standaarde), asook die toesighouding deur die raadgewer wat aangestel is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDie provinsiale regering se elektriese kontrakteur het die konstruksie en installasies gedoen, waarna die kontrakteur \u2019n \u201ccertificate of compliance\u201d per wooneenheid voorsien het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHierdie sertifikaat bevestig dat die installasie getoets is en resultate lewer soos deur die wet vereis word. Di\u00e9 sertifikaat word dan die eienaar se eiendom om te bevestig dat alles veilig en in werkende toestand is wanneer die huis oorhandig word. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDaarna word die gebruik en beheer van die installasie die verantwoordelikheid van die eienaar of huurder.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n W\u00fcst voeg verder by dat die munisipaliteit se betrokkenheid bloot is om seker te maak dat die sertifikaat van voldoening reg is voordat die hooftoevoer by wooneenhede aangeskakel word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWat die aantyging betref dat die oorsaak van die brande die elektriese stelsels is, bestaan geen bewyse nie en dit sal eers ondersoek moet word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDie afskakeling, soos genoem, is suiwer weens die limiet wat bereik word tydens oorlading. 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