A Hlalani family says thay are disappointed with the municipality’s attitude towards service delivery and
sanitation.
A Hlalani family says thay are disappointed with the municipality’s attitude towards service delivery and
sanitation.
Resident Fundiswa Ntozini says her family of seven has been without a toilet facility for three years. Despite reporting her blocked toilet repeatedly to the municipality’s engineering department and her ward councillor, she says nothing has been done to solve the problem.
“Municipal workers once came and upon investigation told me that the walls of the pit toilet have caved in on it and that a new hole has to be dug so that the toilet may be relocated,” she explained.
“We told them that we can’t dig the hole because our premises are so rocky that we can’t even have a vegetable patch”.
Ntozini says her last visit to the municipality’s offices was in February when an attendant asked for her contact numbers and promised that she would be called later. “However, nobody has called me or visited my house with their digging machines to solve our predicament,” she said.
She added that she even brought the matter to the attention of ward 8 councillor Nomazwi Fuku who, like the municipal officials, promised to call her later but did not.
When contacted Fuku said she could not comment on the matter as she was admitted in hospital. Contrary to promises made last week that he would respond to questions put to him, Makana spokesperson
Thandy Matebese did not respond to queries put forward by Grocott’s Mail.
Ntozini added that the family has had to rely on using their neighbours; ablution facilities and that, as time went by, the neighbours became fed up and told them they could no longer help them.
Now the family says they have been relieving themselves in the nearby veld adjoining Vukani. “Yesterday I went to the bush but could not relieve myself because there was a strange man who was staring at me and I became nervous as I was not sure of his intentions,” she said.
Her husband, David, said he is frustrated with the municipality because it was not the first time they dragged their feet in fixing the toilet.
“Before it blocked three years it was uprooted by a tornado, and after reporting the matter repeatedly to the municipality to no avail I had to rebuild it myself,” he added.
