One does not appreciate just how dirty Dundee is until one walks through it.
The streets are not that narrow and there are no cobbled stones among the potholes, but there are enough green bottles strewn around to give credence to Bheki Cele’s comment that the liquor clampdown is good for everyone.

With Tourism Dundee battling for funds and Talana Museum waiting for their gate entry allocation from Endumeni (now running into about three years), both entities should ask Heineken for a huge sponsorship to get them out of their current financial dilemma. The beer company should reciprocate to their most loyal town by doling out some money.
I feel bad for the beer brands in brown bottles.

No one seems to like them – or maybe the guys who drink those brands actually bother to find a rubbish bin to dispose of their empties. A bit of Cape Town-style graffiti is also popping up in Victoria Street, with one artist declaring it to be the Westside. Well, they are right I suppose – it’s west of something and has gone west too.

The fenced-off Coronation Park also remains a mystery wrapped in an enigma – a bit like those water accounts sent out by Umzinyathi: no one can make head or tail of them.
The park remains closed to kids who are itching to play on the newly-renovated swings, etc.
They can’t do that, but revellers can gather just outside the park, play music, drink in public and leave behind evidence of their orgy. And the guys who built the fence had a simple solution to the dilemma faced when finding there was a huge gap between the access gate and the pavement on McKenzie Street. No problem; just build a driveway hump so high only a Land Cruiser or a company car can gain access.

The fence around McPhail Park also remains closed. Maybe the virus is still lurking around all the broken glass

. There is also a question as to what happened to the historic MacPhail Gates that faced Smith Street during the construction process.
The engineer there also had an interesting solution to the problem of getting electricity to the park. Simply hack a ditch across Smith Street, put in the cable and leave the ditch open, much to the distress of motorists.

Maybe the Karelandman Street road fixers can pop down there and do a geo-tech survey on that road too. The rubbish lying around the railway station, on vacant plots and just about everywhere else, is really shameful.

Disturbingly, the municipality has put up signs saying ‘No dumping, offenders will be fined’, but to no avail. How will they find or fine them when we constantly hear that there are no by-laws to control these kind of anti-social activities?
The great unity during the hectic April lockdown appears to have evaporated among the crime and grime.
The words of the prophet are indeed written on the walls and on the substation boxes.

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