This is what residents of Newmont Road in Selcourt asked themselves on Thursday when, what looked like a tree growing in the middle of the tar road stood there with barricade tape surrounding the site, and no one to answer for it.
Initially, there was said to be a crack that ran across the road seeping water out of it, for two weeks prior, until the Ekurhuleni Metro workers left something had residents of the area very confused.
Nondybo Mbalula (68), a resident of the house outside which the mysterious phenomenon is located, shared her confusion at the barricade tapes and “street-plant”.
“There was a crack in the road, leaking water, but I’m not sure who reported it,” she says, “because on Tuesday, the people from the metro arrived and started working on the site as I was leaving my home.”
To Mbalula’s surprise, when she arrived she saw that the crack had now developed into what looked like a tree that had been planted in the middle of the road.
“When I arrived home, I noticed the barricade tapes and the pothole-looking site on the road.
I was very confused,” she said.
When asked about the occurrence, a resident of the same street, but further down the road, David Bright, said that it would not be the first time that the Ekurhuleni metro have left a pothole with a plant in the middle of it.
The Ekurhuleni Metro has been contacted with regards to the matter, and they are said to be looking into the enquiry.
No constructive feedback has been received yet.
