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Copious amounts of garbage left near Verdoorn Street
The rubbish has not been picked up for a number of days.
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Residents in Extension 18 are fuming as trash has been left scattered across the fields near Verdoorn Street.
Complaints began on Thursday after a memorial service was held in the area, and heaps of garbage left in its wake.
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Many angered locals contacted the Middelburg Observer to express their justified frustrations.
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A journalist visited the location earlier this morning to find the trash untouched, with the Steve Tshwete Local Municipality yet to respond to the scene.
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The area has become a de facto vagrants’ paradise, with many seen scouring through the rubbish.