Music festival leaves residents furious

Saturday (December 3) saw hundreds of people filling up the Kandahar Avenue sports grounds to attend the Nyus’ Volume Music Festival that was hosted by Alfred Duma Local Municipality.

After a whole night of music and dancing, Kandahar Avenue is an absolute mess due to litter that was strewn all over the place by festival-goers.

The road is littered with broken beer bottles and other trash.

Leonardsville residents are furious about the mess, saying that the Kandahar grounds should not have been used for such an event and the result is that their area has been “dirtied up”.

“The whole event was chaos. People were drinking in public and throwing beer bottles in the road. There was a lack of police visibility and as residents of Leonardsville, we are disappointed and furious in the aftermath of the municipality’s poorly planned event,” said IFP councillor Abbas Warasally.

Members of the Hillside Community Policing Forum (CPF) also expressed their anger, saying that the municipality and the police did not do enough to control the large crowd of people.

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