We have a small municipal refuse dump in Cloverdene, which services the area, including Crystal Park.
Part of our rates and taxes to the municipality must, I assume, go towards the salaries of the staff at this facility.
However, whenever I try to use this service, I am faced with attitude by the staff.
They sit comfortably under the tree and watch you unload your garden refuse (if they allow you to unload at all) and then tell you to clean up around the dumpster if you happen to drop something.
Then, to top it all, they expect payment for this privilege.
If you go to the dump more than once a day you are turned away.
To get past this I arrived at the dump with my bakkie and a trailer with my garden refuse and was again turned away. The reason, I was told, was that only a bakkie load at a time was allowed.
So that explains why our neighbourhood looks like a rubbish dump. People are so tired of the abuse and lack of service that they now just offload their rubbish wherever they feel like it.
Any piece of open ground in the area has now become the local rubbish dump.
When is the municipality going clean up all these rubbish dumps, which are spoiling our area and also becoming a health hazard to all of us ratepaying citizens?
