Hecules Coetzee from Brakpan writes: What I cannot understand about the plastic squatter camp is the following:
There is a recycling plant inside the Weltevreden dump site — why is it not recycling the waste?
What is happening there?
Is it operational?
What does it recycle?
Can they not employ some of these people to collect the recycling waste for them?
Why is the management of Weltevreden not stopping people from entering the waste area?
Why did they put in an opening for the scavengers to walk through?
Why can’t they allocate a piece of ground to the scavengers to store the plastic and other items, it is a dump site, after all?
This is the place where we send our rubbish.
We, as taxpayers, pay every month for them to collect and dispose of our rubbish.
Yet they sit on their fat backsides and don’t do anything about it!
Why do we even pay for them to dispose of our rubbish if it only gets moved across to the other side of the road?
I think we, as the residents of Brakpan, must stop paying for this service and start a trust to control these funds and force the municipality to do something about the plastic squatter camp.
Does the municipality want us, the residents of the town, to go and remove the squatters ourselves?
I do not think it will be difficult to get the residents together to remove them with force!
We are tired of seeing this rubbish every day, and the squatter camp growing by the day!
They must also stop the illegal mining taking place behind the squatter camp.
I have seen the police there, but they did nothing but talk to them.
