Faeces dumped at Ward 18 office
A COUNCILLOR’S assistant had to run for cover when angry Kwazakhele residents arrived at the Ward 18 council office carrying buckets of raw sewage.
The group emptied the faeces inside the councillor’s Vuku Road office yesterday morning and called for it to be closed.
The office was reopened only on Friday after being closed for two weeks.
It eventually opened its doors with the help of Umkhonto weSizwe veterans.
Ward councillor’s assistant Sakhi Nombakuhle was lucky to escape unharmed yesterday.
“I was doing my work when a group of peo- ple arrived and started throwing rubbish bags and the bucket of sewage.
“I then left the office, locked the gates and called the police,” Nombakuhle said.
The residents’ main gripe was that there had been no development in the area over the past two decades.
One protester, who declined to be named, said: “We are not happy about allocation of projects and that there are no food parcels.
“After 27 years of freedom, people are still using the bucket system, which is why we had to dump poo in her office so that she can do something about [the buckets].”
Ward 18 councillor Lungiswa Mnyimba accused small business owners of mobilising residents and using service delivery com- plaints as a front. She said she had been at loggerheads with the businesses for some time.
“They have been spreading false rumours that I have a budget for SMME projects because they hear that in other wards there is such a budget,” she said.
Meanwhile, early yesterday a group of residents from Chatty Extension protested along Old Uitenhage Road, burning tyres and rubbish bags.
They were demanding a meeting with metro human settlements political head Nqaba Bhanga over housing and infrastructure complaints.
Bhanga said he would meet Chatty Extension residents today.