The GCN recently reported that the workers at Cages for Africa and Unity Alma Shopfitters, local companies in Church Street, in the Germiston CBD, have had to come to terms with working alongside raw sewage (see GCN, July 31).
Despite the metro stating that the problem had been resolved, a second tour through the Unity Alma Shopfitters workshop showed workers are still left to work in hazardous conditions.
Many makeshift walkways through the sewage, which includes human faeces, can be seen in the workshop.
The company has reportedly made numerous calls to the metro and even the presidential hotline, but the sewage continues to flow.
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.
Metro spokesman, Themba Gadebe, replied, stating that: “Ekurhuleni technicians have attended to the sewage leak. There was a blockage caused by an upstream company dumping foreign objects into a municipal line.”
No comment was made on why the previous blockage was not dealt with or if the metro has prevented the situation from repeating itself.
