Susan Strydom suffered torn ligaments in one of her ankles when she fell into a hole in a pavement in Beaconsfield Street – allegedly left open by the fibre optic trench diggers.

Susan, whose husband Ronnie survives off a SASSA disability grant, was visiting her daughter and grandchildren in Beaconsfield Street on March 15. “I did not realise that there was this huge hole in the pavement. I fell in and felt a sudden sharp pain in my ankle,” she told the Courier. Community members came to her assistance and she was taken to Dundee Hospital to treat her injured ankle.

Plaster of Paris was placed on her injured foot. She now has to hobble to town from the bottom end of Cornhilll Street, as she and her husband do not have a vehicle.

Two days later, Susan reported the incident to the municipality. She claims that she was sent from one department to another and finally managed to get a worker to cover the hole outside her daughter’s home. A response from the authorities will be published when it is forthcoming.

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