BCM needs to ‘clean up’ act
THE filthy state of the Buffalo City Metro has raised the ire of the DA.
In a statement this week, the Buffalo City Metro (BCM) DA caucus raised concerns over the level of pollution and littering in the city’s CBD and residential areas.
DA caucus man in BCM, Vaughan Holmes said: “The unbearable litter and filth in the Buffalo City Metro is a legacy of ongoing ANC mismanagement and looting.
“Duncan Village is overflowing with garbage and over Christmas the King William’s Town CBD looked more like a combat zone than an economic hub of the metro.”
Holmes said the filthy conditions had led to a plague of rats in Vincent and Duncan Village and posed a serious risk to public health.
“The DA calls on the ANC-led municipality to urgently enforce the existing bylaws properly by supplying enough bins for public access and to clamp down on littering and illegal rubbish dumps,” Homes said.
The GO team visited East London’s Ebuhlanti taxi rank in the city’s CDB this week and found an illegal dumping site and a dirty rank site which, according to taxi drivers, is not cleaned by the municipality.
Taxi committee member Zalisile Lipheyi said: “We struggle every day with this dirty place. We can’t even sit here and eat our food.”
The drivers said they had since resorted to cleaning the site but had reported their concerns to the municipality. No response had yet been received.
BCM had not responded to queries at the time of going to print.