Marabastad gets a clean-up and by-law inspection

The metro and metro police (TMPD) conducted an oversight visit to Marabastad in light of the residents recently complaining about filth in the area.

The visit took place on Tuesday and was primarily targeted at Jazz Park in Marabastad and the surrounding areas.

The parties also cleaned up stormwater inlets, cut grass and picked up piles of litter in the area.

Recently parts of Pretoria West were struck by flash floods amid the Gauteng weather service warning residents to expect heavy rainfall during the last weekend of October. In circulating social media videos, areas around Zeiler Street, Pretoria West, were overrun by flood waters, making the surrounding roads unusable.

Mayor Randall Williams assured residents that the multiparty coalition government was committed to ensuring the safety and cleanliness of the metro are always preserved.

After the clean-up, illegal informal traders operating in Marabastad were targeted for inspection to ensure their compliance with the metro by-laws.

“By-laws are laws that are passed by the council of a municipality to regulate the affairs of the municipality and the services the municipality provides under its jurisdiction,” Williams said.

Twenty-two incidents in which goods from informal and formal traders were confiscated due to non-adherence to the by-laws the metro has in place were recorded as a result.

The mayor advised non-compliant informal traders to visit the metro’s official offices to apply for the licences that are required for them to conduct their business.

“Informal traders that wish to operate in Tshwane must visit the local economic development offices to get assistance with trading licences. These offices are based on the fifth floor, Middestad Buiding, 252 Thabo Sehume Street, Pretoria.”

The metro said that compliance with by-laws will be regularly enforced going forward and urged residents to cooperate.

“We therefore call on residents and visitors to obey the by-laws, so that we can make Tshwane an orderly city to live and work in,” Williams concluded.

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