The disgusting waste has been piling up in spite of a supposed clean-up programme.
Rubbish is piling up on the corners of streets in Nelson Mandela Bay, next to clinics, hospitals, churches, schools, initiation schools, roads, dams and storm water pipes. Yet according to the Mayor’s office, this is one of the cleanest cities in South Africa.
Vukile Nqoba of Zwide township in Port Elizabeth lives next to the Dora Nginza Hospital’s boundary wall. “Everyday I pick up used nappies, papers and plastics in front of my house. Residents come with their wheelie bins and dump rubbish on this boundary wall. Some of them come in bakkies and cars.”Nqoba says objecting to this illegal dumping has made him many enemies. “I tried to scare them by threatening to report them to the municipality. But they tell me that they don’t care.
Nqola said the municipality collected domestic garbage once a week, “but this heap of rubbish is only removed after two or three months”.Along the Old Uitenhage Road between Govan Mbeki and Missionvale townships, rubbish is lying next to the road. Mita Arends of Missionvale said, “When Missionvale RDP houses were built in 2014, constructors dumped the rubble on this open field. We thought they were dumping the rubble temporarily while they were busy with the construction.
He said the cooperatives were helping the municipality reach areas that rubbish trucks could not reach, and would also help with community awareness programmes as well as cleaning up illegal dump sites and picking up roadside litter.
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