The Fochville waste transfer station and its surrounds are still a huge problem.

Despite ongoing pleas from the public, the municipality has done nothing to clean the facility. The terrain of the transfer station has been overflowing with so much rubbish that many people have started dumping on the road leading to it. Most of the problems stem from the fact that the municipality is not removing rubbish from the site, and that a group of volunteers are the only people trying to keep it in order. The situation has become so bad that community members have taken money out of their own pockets to hire a TLB to clean the road on several occasions.

To make matters worse, sewage is again leaking from a manhole next to this road. Except for flooding the road with sewage, much of the waste also flows into the old Fochville graveyard next to it.

This sewage is flooding the back section of the graveyard, and fueling the growth of tall reeds inside this facility.

Meanwhile, the municipality has allowed people to put up shacks next to the graveyard. At a recent community meeting in Kokosi a resident alleged that problems such as drug use were rife among the residents staying there.

Although the Herald contacted the municipality about the problems, their marketing and communication manager, Temba Fezani, did not respond.