He made the complaint at the Department of Electricity in First Avenue, CBD when he first noticed the streetlight was not working.
“They promised that they will have the streetlight fixed first thing in January,” he says.
Since January he has been reporting the matter to the metro call centre at least once a month and has received reference numbers, but the streetlight is still not working.
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What concerns him the most is the fact that house robberies could increase due to the dark streets.
Ntshangase says his house was broken into in February and he does not want a repeat of that.
“The times we live in we have to be extra careful and aware of our surroundings, but without streetlights it is not always possible,” he says.
Ntshangase says there are several other streets in Struisbult that are also in total darkness.
According to him, residents are waiting far too long for the metro to respond to their complaints about faulty streetlights.
While at home during the week, he claims he has noticed metro maintenance vehicles passing by.
“Yet the lights are still not fixed. Why?” he asks.
Struisbult and Daggafontein Extension Two have been without streetlights for more than two years.
Ntshangase feels the metro’s maintenance of streetlights is lacking.
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Metro spokesman Themba Gadebe says the department has allocated extra resources to attend to the daily streetlight complaints.
They will dispatch extra teams to attend to the backlog, which has been building up over time, as planned.
“The community should have noticed improvements since Friday,” he says.
