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We are experiencing an unpleasant lifestyle due to sewerage overspills and overflows.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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 \u2212 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. 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