I travel to Wembezi C-Section most days of the week and in this VERY DRY climate it has become more and more obvious to me that the people in that area either do not know or do not care about the water shortage.

Many times when the water has been shut off for the day, they have found a way to open a pipe and the queue of people is nearly round the block to get water. I know water is the one item that we all need every day, but can our friends stop wasting it?

Taps are left running and even broken open when they cannot get the taps open, water pipes are broken and the water is just running – does Uthukela not check these things and fix the pipes or are they so close to the surface that they break under the slightest pressure?
Surely Uthukela should be cleaning in front of its own door step before putting most of if not all of the country under water restrictions.

Then is there no way for our own Umtshezi Municipality to do something about the road? The potholes are something to experience while driving there.

It is a matter of driving ‘dodge the hole’ and then maybe you might be met with another vehicle coming in the opposite direction and both of you are trying to pass in the same small space.

At the beginning of the year or was it last year there was a little work done on the road but just about a few 100 meters from the turn off the main damage to the road has just been left to worsen. Now to town – suddenly this week in Brewitt Park we have what I call a ‘city taxi driver’.”

Why I say that is because this person drives along the road honking the horn AT 6 O’CLOCK in the morning and then again in the afternoon.

If this is a new taxi route please could something be done about his honking? The afternoon is not too bad but 6 o’clock in the morning – really, most of us are still asleep.

Ansje du Plessis