Call to clean up rubbish and care for your kerb

Community's urged to care for public spaces, call for shared responsibility

November 25, 2024

Tracey Turner 1 minute read

Stephen Atterbury filled four rubbish bags with beer bottles after cleaning up the kerb in one small part of Meerensee

While Richards Bay booms as an industrial town, and is one of KZN’s most frequented holiday destinations, its natural beauty and public spaces are in decline.

By 6am, municipal workers clean up Alkantstrand and surrounding littered streets, yet trash still piles up and is dumped in greenbelts, with broken glass from public drinking adding to the mess.

The problem is clear: a lack of shared responsibility for public space, and poor policing…

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