{"id":46802,"date":"2024-03-05T10:59:35","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T08:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/peoplespost\/belvedere-roads-rat-infestation-plagues-claremont-community-businesses-20240305\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T22:15:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T20:15:51","slug":"belvedere-roads-rat-infestation-plagues-claremont-community-businesses-20240305","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/peoplespost\/belvedere-roads-rat-infestation-plagues-claremont-community-businesses-20240305\/","title":{"rendered":"Belvedere Road\u2019s rat infestation plagues Claremont community, businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>A rat plague that affects businesses in Belvedere Road, leaving Claremont residents desperate for either the owner of the property\u2019s intervention or that of the City of Cape Town.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The rats are a pesky symptom of a problematic open plot, 97 Belvedere Road.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>A bunch of \u201cnaughty rats\u201d are in reality a rat plague that affects businesses in Belvedere Road, leaving Claremont residents desperate for either the owner of the property\u2019s intervention or that of the City of Cape Town, while hardworking community members endure the source of this infestation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rats are a pesky symptom of a problematic open plot, 97 Belvedere Road, where a business owner from across the road, Mandy Pott, guided <span>People\u2019s Post<\/span>. The plot is used by homeless people as a camping spot, public toilet and dumping site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe last time the owners did anything with the property was to put up a green chain-link fence to try and keep the [homeless] out at the end of 2021,\u201d Pott said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She recently tried to contact the owner of the property as it was once again overrun with homeless, who had broken down part of the fence for access in early October last year. \u201cBy this time the [homeless] had erected tents with beds, using it as a public toilet in full view of passersby, including my clients and staff.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div contenteditable=\"false\" data-embed24=\"Images\" data-pos=\"middle\" id=\"embed_8b8b2f4e\">\n<div class=\"slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-smallsrc=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/11164\/00a6d97d14d746efaa9c9f2a6940bdf8.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/peoplespost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/96ca793a26fb4d8cb48a2b65bd50fb0b.jpg\" title=\"Belvedere Road\u2019s eyesore has become a fire hazard and is currently decorated with the scorched aftermath and ash of a fire that broke out on Wednesday 21 February.\"><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Belvedere Road\u2019s eyesore has become a fire hazard and is currently decorated with the scorched aftermath and ash of a fire that broke out on Wednesday 21 February.<\/div>\n<div class=\"img_accreditation\"><span class=\"source\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><span class=\"photographer\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Pott added that these waste pickers would leave their aftermath exactly as it was. \u201cBy this time the property was completely rat-infested. The smell and the flies were intolerable. When the wind blows it picks up rubbish and deposits it all over our property on the opposite side of the road.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On 30 December, she related, the \u201ccleansing department\u201d arrived at the property \u201cbut they wouldn\u2019t go onto the property because it was privately owned, so they left. Then the police arrived, took some pictures and put up a notice of warning.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By early January Pott suffered the consequences of rats on her property. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs a result, I started making contact with the councillor myself, again to ask for help. Her reply was that the issue had been reported to the City\u2019s Problem Building Unit (PBU) and that\u2019s the best she could do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Ward 58 councillor Katherine Christie, the PBU has issued a notice to tidy up, clear up and secure the property, and was in direct contact with the owners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAccording to City legislation, owners of properties that are neglected and cause security problems in the neighbourhood receive penalties charged to their municipal rates accounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div contenteditable=\"false\" data-embed24=\"Images\" data-pos=\"middle\" id=\"embed_1587434d\">\n<div class=\"slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-smallsrc=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/11164\/f0df75b9320e4f778f3e61b0dc5abe20.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/peoplespost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/88a104c71ee44fcc8c36b30c30394da2.jpg\" title=\"Waste pickers have been seen leaving the aftermath of waste sorting on the open plot in Claremont.\"><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Waste pickers have been seen leaving the aftermath of waste sorting on the open plot in Claremont.<\/div>\n<div class=\"img_accreditation\"><span class=\"source\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><span class=\"photographer\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThese increase every month until action is taken to secure the property. Should no action be taken, theoretically the penalty keeps growing until the City can claim the property to offset accumulated debt. The City then disposes of the property to someone who <span>will <\/span>steward it properly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The chair of the Claremont CPF Sub-forum 1 and 4, Penny Owens, attested to the tedium the property posed. \u201cNeighbouring properties have had to contend with vermin, displays of various stages of nakedness by homeless folk, washing and carrying out their ablutions in full view of the public and a variety of anti-social, often criminal, behaviour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is proving a concern to neighbouring businesses, residents and numerous security providers in the area.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In her CPF capacity, Owens helped Pott by escalating the matter to Christie, entrusted the City to add the plot to the problem buildings list \u201cand start the 10 step process late last year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the meantime, Belvedere Road\u2019s eyesore has become a fire hazard and is currently decorated with the scorched aftermath and ash of a fire that broke out on Wednesday 21 February. \u201cThe fire spread very quickly setting trees alight and, I believe, doing some damage to the College of Magic buildings,\u201d Pott related. \u201cThe fire brigade was there for about an hour trying to extinguish the fire.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div contenteditable=\"false\" data-embed24=\"Images\" data-pos=\"middle\" id=\"embed_573ddec5\">\n<div class=\"slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-smallsrc=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/11164\/ce6c4571b98e4b64a58df22e66259410.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/peoplespost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/d0efbe806d154569b322dbe129372ccf.jpg\" title=\"The open plot has been a dump site for waste contributing to the rat plague. \"><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">The open plot has been a dump site for waste contributing to the rat plague. <\/div>\n<div class=\"img_accreditation\"><span class=\"source\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><span class=\"photographer\" 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