Workers at local companies Cages for Africa and Unity Alma Shopfitters, in Church Street, in the Germiston CBD, have had to come to terms with working alongside raw sewage.
This is because the two companies are plagued with sewage leaks.
Last Monday saw another leak, the fourth for this year, start in front of their businesses.
The GCN was on the scene and witnessed the raw sewage flowing from a manhole into a storm water drain.
This drain, one of many in the CBD, reportedly flows to Germiston Lake.
A tour through the Unity Alma Shopfitters workshop showed workers’ makeshift walkways through the sewage, which includes human faeces.
The GCN sent a query to the metro, to establish when the matter will be resolved and what plans the metro has to stop future leaks in the area, as the situation poses a hazard to the health of all the workers at the two companies.
Metro spokesman Themba Gadebe replied, stating that: “A metro team had to pump sewage out of the manhole in order to remove a piece of wooden board from a nearby factory.
“The blockage is now open.”
No comment was made on the previous blockages or if the metro has prevented the situation from repeating itself.
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