KIBLER PARK – Some of our suburbs have the potential to be really beautiful and therapeutic to live in.
This is especially true of Kibler Park. There are lovely open spaces and of course we have the Klipriviersberg Nature Reserve right on our doorstep. Flowing through the nature reserve is the Bloubos Spruit, which starts up on the Rigdeway and flows into Klip River.
Over recent weeks I have watched piles of builders’ rubble appear in various parts. I even spotted an individual dumping rubble on the pavement, close to the golf course. This person was careful not to dump rubble directly opposite his house, instead he wheeled it down so that it would be opposite his neighbour. I challenged this gentleman, who happened to be a similar age to me, and should therefore be behaving as role model. He eventually removed some of his rubble, there is however still a pile of concrete left behind.
Most of the piles of building detritus get dumped at night when no one is around. This means that those dumping the stuff know that it is illegal, otherwise they would have no shame in dumping during broad daylight. The insane thing about this is that there are several rubble removers who advertise their services in the COURIER. I would expect that any half decent individual, carrying out extensions, would budget for rubble removal before carrying out their alterations.
There are other annoying happenings in the open spaces and these would include riding noisy buzz bikes and quads. There is a perfectly good facility for that form of recreation not too far away. Fornication and drinking in public places are also not legal practices, however, this does happen, the evidence remains in the form of used condoms and discarded bottles and cans.
On Saturday, November 30, on my way back from shopping, I challenged an individual who threw two Checkers packets into Bloubos Spruit from the Silver Lane crossing. He told me this was a ‘religious thing to keep the river flowing,’ and promptly sped off in his BMW 435 with no registration. I went in pursuit and when he noticed me, he ran a red traffic light from Swartkoppies Road into the Old Vereening Road. I went home and collected a garden refuse bag and picked up the two Checkers packets and took them to the garden refuse site. Now, these packets were knotted so that the contents would have rotten within the packets, and the packets themselves would have become just more of the waste plastic that clogs up our streams and rivers. Clogging up the streams and rivers would serve no purpose in keeping said streams and rivers flowing, quite the contrary, I would think. Perhaps this gentleman, who was by the way arrogant, is mistaken about how this religious practice should be performed. The contents, yes, I had a look inside the packets, they were chopped up pumpkins and fruits. Had it not been for the pack, the contents may have been useable by birds. In any event, dumping is dumping and it is not allowed.
I would urge the residents of this potentially beautiful place to desist from discarding rubbish in whatever form
The God I serve tells me to look after our planet, and tend to the Garden and not to pollute it with rubbish.
D Whyte, Kibler Park
