Grateful De Wiekus Road residents write:
Residents of a section of De Wiekus Road in Van Riebeeck Park have been battling since before Christmas to get their section of street lights working again.
The 10 lights between Maluti Street and Drakensberg Avenue cast that stretch of De Wiekus Road into darkness, as was even alluded to in a reader’s letter published in Kempton Express about the Arwyp Nite Road Race in late January and the danger this unlit section of road posed to pedestrians and motorists alike, as well as the residents and their visitors.
On March 16, residents were delighted to see that their various and numerous pleas to the municipality to do something about this section of lighting were finally responded to. As darkness fell, street lights were working. It had, admittedly, taken quite some time for the repairs to be effected, much longer than the time frame shown in the municipality’s customer services standards document for a section of street lights (seemingly, within 24 hours of being reported).
But their patience (or lack of it) and persistence have finally been rewarded.
Ward 15 councillor Gideon van Zyl must also be credited for taking up this cudgel on his residents’ behalf. He too pursued the matter with vim and vigour and his persistence has paid off.
Our thanks to the electricity department, which we understand accumulated many complaints over the festive period and into the early part of 2019, resulting in a massive backlog, but which responded to this problem.
