All hands on deck to clean up Diepsloot
DIEPSLOOT – Multiple departments of the City of Johannesburg came to the area in aims of repairing and educating those in the community.
Ingonyama Drive of Diepsloot was host to a number of municipal departments on the morning of 22 October for a multi-disciplinary clean-up.
Region A of the City of Johanneburg saw a number of faculties including Johannesburg Roads Agency (JRA) Midrand, Environmental Health, City Power, Pikitup Midrand, EMS, City Parks, Johannesburg Water Randburg, CRUM (Citizen Relationship on Urban Management), and Food Resilience Unit present to either inspect stores or perform maintenance in the area.
Assistant director of Region A, Pierre Nel explained briefly what all teams were working on that morning. “Every month, one of the ward inspectors in each ward identifies an important area in which a blitz is organised. This time, we have a number of departments here,” he said.
“While JRA and Environmental Health will paint streets and check food shops’ certificates respectively, today is mostly about education and not prosecution. The rest of the departments have stalls up for community members to be educated on different issues.”
Thembeka Mkhize, while tending to the Joburg Water stall, said the water supplier was in the area to communicate the importance of saving water and ‘the proper use of sanitation and water conservation’ to locals.
The Food Resilience Unit was a new addition to educating the community on correct farming methods, and were also selling and showcasing some vegetables.
Jeffrey Masemola said that corporate companies also get involved with planting different things. “We are showcasing what we do and how people who are interested in farming can get started with that correctly. My job is to make sure corporate farmers who work with us, have their crops growing.”
Ward 113 inspector, Tumelo Moloi was in close communication with all municipal parties throughout the morning. He was glad that the majority of the municipal departments present were available to come to the ward.
JRA depot workers were on the streets unblocking drainages systems and sweeping the streets.
“It’s been a good day, I think. JRA was double-booked in terms of painting the roads, so we could not do that today. Filling up potholes was also not able to take place today since the depot is out of tar. Hopefully in a week’s time, the roads will be sorted,” Moloi said.
“We managed to finished by mid-day today. Environmental Health walked down the street and checked all stores. Thankfully, no shop had to close their doors,” Moloi concluded.
