“Refentse residents live in filth”
“We live in absolute filth. Sewage, refuse…We are going to get ill and the municipality does not care,” a resident of the Refentse township on Van der Hoff Road in Hartbeespoort said this week.
Residents have already been suffering from constant sewage spills over the past years, and now part of the township has become a rubbish dump as the Madibeng municipality does not collect refuse, they say.
“The stench is unbearable, pigs and animals scavenge in the refuse and it is just getting worse. Pleas to the municipality fall on deaf ears.”
Kormorant requested the municipality to respond to the situation, but no response had been received by the time of going to press.