Resident writes by email:
On Wednesday last week, we had another wheelie bin taken. This is the fourth in as many years.
Sad state of affairs.
I am a pensioner and have been living in Brakpan since 1994 (in my current house since 1996).
We have been happy here until around two years ago, when the downhill spiral began.
Disagreements with the municipality for double billing on services with no solution.
Pay up and then we will sort it out. Nothing has been sorted.
Pavement dug up to put in fibre and not put back to original state and are now overgrown with weeds.
It is difficult for me to maintain as a pensioner.
When asking garden services or random gardeners, we get asked for R200 a day and garden services want R600 four times a month if it doesn’t rain.
Lastly, I have had my boundary wall broken twice a year to get to my garden (I had expensive plants which I have now destroyed because of that) and to get at my lemons.
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All you have to do is ask, not break my wall to get them.
This is the last straw and after all the income brought into Brakpan by us (we had a successful business and have retired from it for health reasons), we are on the brink of moving to another town.
Firstly, to be closer to grandchildren but mainly because of insecurity because if they can break my wall to get to my lemons, who knows what else they want to get to.
We don’t live in a fancy suburb. We are in Brakpan Central.
By the way, when I asked the police whether I could lay a charge of malicious damage to property, I was answered with a smile on their face, “Sir, just buy a bag of cement and fix it yourself and then put spikes on.”
I had spikes on my wall and they were pulled out!
Bye, bye, Brakpan.
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