Sports complex in disrepair
City Parks did not show up at a meeting to discuss the state of the Randburg Sports Complex.
Residents are concerned over the shocking state of the Randburg Sports Complex in Malanshof.
Ward 104 councillor Mike Wood and Malanshof resident Priscilla Cramb met with the staff members of the sports and recreation department to address the maintenance of the complex. City Parks representatives were supposed to be at the meeting, but failed to attend.
Cramb outlined several issues and said, “The trees need to be trimmed and the ivy needs to be removed. The parking lot where vagrants make fires needs to be restored.”
At the meeting a few decisions were made. The complex supervisor Harry Motiba said after Unisa students finished writing exams on 29 November, the complex would be cleaned. Sarel Naudé of the Walter Sisulu Hall promised to repair the damaged wire fence which was cut by vagrants.
Cramb blamed the complex’s security for many of the problems. “If the security officers patrolled the area vagrants would not sleep at the soccer club and nobody would have unauthorised parties and leave their empty bottles behind,” she complained.
The area next the soccer field was also highlighted as one of the problems, but Naudé said there were plans to enlarge the soccer field so that it would cover the area next to the field. However, City Parks and the sports and recreation department disagreed as to whom the area next to the field belonged to.
City Parks spokesperson Jenny Moodley failed to respond at the time of going to press.
