A few months after the News spoke to Munsieville local, Chuma Kwakweni she said that she is still fighting the good fight against dumping in her town.
Chuma and her children originally started their clean-up journey when they decided to clean around her children’s school. This then led to the clean-up of illegal dumping sites in her community. She also makes use of community members who are unemployed to help her.
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When she last spoke to the News, she mentioned her plans of opening her own recycling center and explained that she is in talks with the local municipality and provincial government to help her achieve this dream.
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She said not much had changed in the past few months but she still gets up to clean with the community and over the weekends she and her children clean on their own.
The Gauteng Enterprise Propeller (GEP) also donated R15 000 towards Chuma and her projects, which she said she used to buy grass-cutting and gardening equipment. She wants to do gardening services for private residents and other establishments and plans on using the profits of this business to fund more of her clean-up campaigns.
She explained that with the gardening services, there is space for her to venture into other things like tree cutting as well.
In the past few months, Chuma has also received letters of recommendation from several institutions which include local churches and the mayor of the Mogale City Local Municipality.
Unfortunately cleaning up a community takes the help of the whole community and Chuma explained that many times right after they have cleaned a site, people will continue to dump there again.
“I am not going to lose that fight, it is my fight and my kids’ fight.”
