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Municipality opens dumpsite on The Bluff

Residents are urged to dump refuse inside the garden sites on The Bluff and not outside the gate or along the road.

RESIDENTS on The Bluff are urged to dump their refuse at the Tara Road Garden Site. The dump site was opened for the public on March 21 after it remained closed due to the illegal strike action that brought all services to a standstill in eThekwini.

The DSW trucks are still trying to remove mountains of refuse dumped outside the garden site on Gray’s Inn Road.

Also read: Refuse collection and street-sweeping services resume

Ward 66 councillor Zoë Solomon appealed to the residents on The Bluff to stop dumping refuse at the entrance of the garden site and on the side of the road.

eThekwini Municipality’s spokesperson Gugu Sisilana confirmed that the refuse collection and street-sweeping services, which were affected by the recent strike action, have resumed.

“Massive clean-up operations and the clearing of the waste-collection backlog have already commenced. We anticipate that we will be able to clear the waste backlog within two weeks, especially in the vast southern region of the city from Umlazi up to Umkhomazi. Residents are requested to take out their refuse bags on the morning of their scheduled collection days. The municipality would like to thank all residents and businesses for their patience during this time. We apologise for the inconvenience that this has caused,” said Sisilana.

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Andile Sithole

He has been covering a variety of news beats for over 10 years. As a journalist working for community newspapers, he has covered politics, court reporting, municipal stories, crime, and news features over the years. Andile is also a multimedia journalist for Southlands Sun. He started his career in journalism as a freelance reporter in 2005 while studying Communication Science at UNISA. Prior to joining Caxton Newspapers, he worked for both community and commercial newspapers in Durban, where he won the Journalist of the Year Award in 2020 and 2021.

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