THE cleaning up of Baxter Park has been welcomed by Berea residents.
According to resident Wayne Grundy, who chatted to municipal workers clearing up the park, they told him about 50 new jobs had been created to clean up parks in the area.
According to eThekwini Head of Communications, Tozi Mthethwa, the Roads and Stormwater Maintenance Department manages a number of contractors who perform cleansing and parks functions as well as minor road infrastructure repairs around eThekwini Municipality.”The contract in question is awarded for a period of 24 months and monitored by the relevant municipal departments,” she said.
Mthethwa said this particular contract included the cleaning and maintenance of roads in the area, including, DLI Avenue, Mitchell Crescent, Princess Alice, Che Guevara Road, Peter Mokaba Road, Clark Road, Lena Ahrens Road, ZK Mathews Road, Penzance Road and Willowvale Road.
“The work undertaken includes picking up litter, channel sweeping, grass cutting, cleaning of stormwater inlets, bush clearing, hand weeding, removal of illegal stickers and minor infrastructure repairs to sidewalks and storm water inlets. Domestic and residential refuse removal is managed by Durban Solid Waste independently,” she said.
