We Care 4 Nelspruit remove illegal election posters

We Care 4 Nelspruit has once again taken to the streets to remove posters displayed illegally in the city.

They did a clean-up on the bridge on the N4 road on Saturday. They were joined by a local business, Kärcher Nelspruit.

These posters were displayed before the national and provincial elections as part of political parties’ campaigns. Past TJ Maré, from the organisation, said that Kärcher Nelspruit pledged to work with them on this quest of cleaning the city.

We Care 4 Nelspruit is a local organisation that was started in January, and their aim is to keep the City of Mbombela clean.

This organisation depends on volunteers and donations. When they find an area that needs cleaning or maintenance, a group of volunteers and local businesses pick up garbage, sweep the streets and remove illegal posters and overgrown vegetation.

They have cleaned various streets in town and painted some of the areas to give them a revamp. They planted beetroot, spinach, pawpaw and citrus trees. GIITD Architects posted a video on social media challenging four businesses to join the initiative.

Maré said they have big plans for the city.These plans include cleaning the bridge on the R40 on the way to KaNyamazane.

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“We have to go back to some of the areas that we previously cleaned for maintenance, such as the Ehmke Street park. We will be going back to clean the stream. We still make sure to remove illegal posters displayed in our CBD,” he said.

He also urged the community to support the project. “We would like to invite the community to join us. It takes a community to clean up a community,” said Maré.

Mbombela Local Municipality spokesman, Joseph Ngala said the posters were illegal and the by-laws are very clear. “The municipal by-laws do not allow anyone to display posters on bridges. Everyone that wants to post anything needs to approach the municipality and have a contract. This contract includes a deposit.

“If a person does not follow the by-law, we keep the deposit. However, in this case, no one entered into a contract with the municipality. All the political parties that displayed any posters while campaigning need to go back and remove them. It does not look good in the city,” he explained.

Ngala said all the political parties were aware of the by-laws.
“We urge everyone to use the same energy they had when displaying the posters to use it again when removing them.”

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