There is water inside the shacks
The rain that started on March 1 has forced many families to live inside their shacks with water levels as high as their ankles at Tsakane Extension Eight.
The roads are wet, there is no pleasure in walking or driving on them and some of the families have to sleep in their shacks with water pouring inside day and night.
Some of the streets have turned into the streets of mud, posing danger to those who walk on them.
One of the residents, Hellen Rampeng says she lives in fear for her life and that of her family since the rain does not seem to stop but keeps pouring day by day.
“It seems as if soon we will have to look for another place to stay as water starts to damage our furniture and groceries,” says a sad Rampeng.
Because the streets are not in good condition in that area, when Kgotso Dangane (19) was injured while playing with his friends and needed to be rushed to the hospital, the paramedics could not reach him in time and he was forced to walk about 4km to get to a place where the ambulance was waiting to transport him to the hospital.
“Because of poor accessibility to the area my boy suffered while help had already arrived,” said Paulina Dangane, Kgotso’s mother.
Xolani Majola, who is a traditional healer, said the rain also disturbs his healing business. “Since the rain started, my clients have not been able to come to me to seek help,” said Majola. He says the residents’ wish is to have proper tarred roads just like other areas in Tsakane.
