‘Our cars are not chairs’ – residents

Residents who park their vehicles in Krogh and Songozwi Street say they have had enough of parking marshalls who use their vehicles as chairs when they are tired.

According to one resident, Lizelle Prinsloo, whose mother works in Krogh Street, the marshalls lean against parked vehicles all day long.

Prinsloo said they had requested the marshalls on numerous occasions not to do so as the vehicles could be scratched or dented.

“We have asked them to not lean against the cars, but they simply ignore us. It is not only our own cars but most of the cars that are parked there. This is not right we pay a lot of money for our cars and we even pay for our cars to be parked there, who gives them the right to lean on our cars,” and angry Prinsloo questioned.

Prinsloo said she decided to take a photo as evidence of this and when she did, the parking marshal was clearly angry, and screamed at her in her mother tongue, which Prinsloo could not understand. “She was very angry,” Prinsloo added.

Municipal spokesperson, Louis Bobodi, said the municipality did not condone this behaviour. “It’s a very bad habit. We don’t condone it, and we will caution them against doing this,” Bobodi said.