Members of the Mamelodi Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) are fuming at JADE Pharmaceutical Enterprises who they say illegally dumped pills and testing kits.
The items were allegedly dumped in Extension 6, Mamelodi East next to the bus terminal on Thursday.
Goodness Mbatha, member of TAC, said when they arrived at the dump site they found small children playing with the pills.
“What would happen if one of the children swallows the pills? Maybe one of them already has.”
“A person could lose his/her life.”
Rina Semadi, another TAC member, said the pills looked like antibiotics.
This has however, not been confirmed.
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A concerned resident informed the TAC members about the illegal items.
The resident said he found the pills and testing kits on a small footpath that was usually used by school children from Extension 6 and Phomolong informal settlement.
“We phoned councillor Doris Matje to tell her about what was happening in her ward,” said Semadi.
“She said she was in a council meeting but would send the Tshwane metro health department to come and clean the area, but that never happened.”
Another resident said he saw a white Ranger bakkie offload the illegal items.
He said the bakkie was marked with JADE Pharmaceutical Enterprises branding.
While the members of the TAC where searching and investigating they found contact details of the company.
Mbatha said when she phoned the company she was told it no longer existed.
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A while later she received a call from the same number and was told the pills that were dumped were not harmful as they were vitamins.
The caller then put the phone down.
TAC members said Matje was supposed to act as a leader and help the people who voted for her.
Treatment Action Campaign is a social movement whose mission is to conduct monitoring, advocacy as campaigning within the health care system to ensure that every person living with HIV has access to quality and comprehensive prevention, treatment, care and support services.
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