Who wants to bet the squatters are registered to vote?
William Douglas from Dalview writes: I drove past the illegal plastic squatter camp during the afternoon of November 7 and noticed the squatters all sitting on the sand heaps next to the “squatter gate” to the Weltevreden dump site, on Main Reef Road.
I noticed the gate that has been made for them was closed on this occasion and they were probably waiting for someone to open it again for them.
On November 8, I saw the gate was open again and the squatters merrily going to and fro through the gate, illegally gathering stuff from the dump site and carrying it across the road to their squatter camp.
This gate must definitely have been made by the management of the Weltevreden dump site.
As mentioned in my previous email, recently published in your paper, this situation of the illegal plastic squatter camp would not have started, had the council and the managers of the Weltevreden dump site seen to it that access could not be gained to the dump site illegally.
It seems that they encourage the squatters to remove rubbish from the site and then dump it illegally across the road.
This constitutes criminality on the part of the squatters, the Weltevreden dump site management and security, and is also a threat to the health of the inhabitants of Brakpan.
I suggest the Brakpan people start suing the town council for their medical bills and that the Green Scorpions take a look at “ungreen” practices of the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality.
This could all have been stopped, had the council made space available on the dump site for the plastic gatherers to take their collected rubbish too, and then buy it back from the squatters and then, in turn, the council could have sold it to recyclers.
I also think the council is allowing the plastic squatter camp to grow with an eye on next year’s election.
Who wants to make a wager that the squatters will all be registered to vote next year?
And still there is a deafening silence from the opposition parties in town…
