Sir
It is just after three o’clock on Sunday afternoon, and the street music is booming through my house again. A quick look showed cars of various registrations settled in Coronation Park, and the various street parties are just starting to pick up speed.
The music is still sedate, in comparison with what we had to endure in in the last eight years already, but that is not the point. Numerous applications to our supremely uncaring municipality had been met with a stony non-response, or if you want to put it more accurately, a deafening silence.
What makes this situation all the more unacceptable, is the fact that almost every park in the town, except McPhail and this den of iniquity, Coronation Park, have been fenced in, thereby pushing all the street party traffic to my corner of this little false paradise. A previous municipal manager promised definite action with regard to this, but he did not remain in the chair long enough to see anything in this regard through. We have street parties here every weekend, and sometimes at least twice during the week.
People get drunk here, defecate all over the park (we have the pictures…!) and during the day school kids from mostly Ethangeni school get to play in this delectable environment. At times you can add used condoms to the recipe. When I went to take pictures on Thursday morning, I met the highly incensed employee of the bowling club, who showed me where women from the Wednesday party had emptied their bowels in front of his gate….!!
Our town councillor, Mr Xaba, has been informed of this problem.
When is the municipality going to fence off Coronation Park? Law enforcement in Dundee with regard to by-laws is non-existent anyway, and it does not help to phone the SAPS to remove these people (usually from out of town) from this park. Mountains of litter, always beer and whisky bottles, paper and food boxes, get left behind, for the residents to see. Is this going to be how the municipality is going to do this? We just want to know, in case we have to take the law into our own hands, as none of you could be bothered to apply it, anyway…
Johann Hamman
