Concerned resident of ward 11, Matjhabeng:
We, the residents of Bronville (ward 11), are seriously being mistreated.
Our municipality is not helping us with the sewage problem we are living with. We are experiencing an unpleasant lifestyle due to sewerage overspills and overflows.
To top it all, one of our own people is selling us out and saying that they are helping us by being used by municipal officials to do their work.
We have elderly people and babies experiencing these bad smells and cannot use toilets due to this problem. You go to the toilet and flush once − when you go out to the shops to go buy products, your waste passes you by on your way to the shop. How embarrassing, and our pleas fall on deaf ears. We ask the people in authority to please come and assist us in this matter because it seems like the construction mafia crisis has now shifted to a sewerage mafia crisis.
These incidents occur due the very same people that we think are helping the community, who turn around and sabotage the sewerage systems, causing them to overflow.
Look up some pictures and see for yourself what we are experiencing in Bronville.
Contractors do nothing, yet they get paid huge salaries for doing just that − nothing. These are the things that needs to be investigated and fixed.
If needs be, our president, Cyril Ramaphosa, should to be told about these municipal workers and officials that are not doing their work and shirking their responsibilities, causing the wellbeing of community members to be sidelined as well.
We need a working government. In addition, we as resident need to band together and learn to take care of our own systems. Even when you log a call with officials or municipal representatives, they do not come in time to help. By the time they do arrive, the situation has worsened.
