AlexTotalShutdown | 'It is all about service delivery.'
“We’ve been complaining to Pikitup about the collection of waste in our area and nothing has happened. They have turned our place into a scrap yard. There are people who come from nowhere and build under pylons. The last time a pylon fell and burnt a number of shacks. They came and rebuilt the shacks and the people are back.”Drug use, she said, had become a huge problem and house break-ins were on the rise.
She said residents marched six weeks ago to the Region E offices in Sandton, where they submitted a memorandum of demandsPolice are currently negotiating with representatives of the residents in an effort to clear the roadpromised the police that they will not be violent, but demand that the director at the Region E officeWhile the negotiations continued, the SAPS, supported by the Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department , formed a line on the road, rubber bullets at the ready.
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