TMPD clamps down on illegal dumping in Bronkies
Fly-tippers were fined and their vehicles impounded.
The TMPD clamped down on fly-tippers last weekend. The first punch landed on March 22 when Bronkhorstspruit residents saw and reported a group off-loading rubbish from a small truck and illegally dumping it in a field.
The culprits were caught on camera. JVR Security helped track the vehicle, and metro officers confronted the culprits, issuing a R2 500 fine to the driver, who told them another person permitted him to off-load his rubbish in that field.
Officers also fined the second person and impounded both vehicles.
Another fly-tipper who thought he could get away with throwing a bakkie load of garbage next to a road in Zithobeni on March 23 also regretted his decision.
The TMPD members in Region 7 were on patrol when they saw the vehicle next to the road in Zithobeni Section S. They fined the driver for illegal dumping and impounded the Isuzu bakkie.
Jabu Mabona, the head of Tshwane’s Region 7, urged residents to discard their waste on the designated dumpsites.
Vasti Mills and her Team Up to Clean Up team, who work to clean up Bronkhorstspruit, welcomed the TMPD’s action, “We do a lot to make our town presentable for the residents and visitors, but the dumping is never-ending.”
The team scarcely cleans an area when there is more rubbish. An example is the Sweet Corner stream in the central part of the town. Last October, large machinery removed the rubbish along the stream’s banks.
During the Streeknews’ investigation into the water crisis in this town, we trekked through shrubs and bushes on a footpath past sewage works to the nearby stream.
Polystyrene containers, takeout boxes, plastic bags, old food, off-cuts, and the remnants of a takeout outlet, boxes and much more lay scattered in every nook and cranny. Rubble and other rubbish were piled in open areas and the light industrial part of the town.
“The community is fed up with the state of our town,” Mills said.
Many residents contribute to the Bronkies Team Up to Clean Up initiative by donating. To support this work, contact Mills on 083 225 8777.
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