I travel though Springs daily to work and back, also through town on business. Springs is always full of litter. Look at Fourth Street which I think of as the drug alley, it is always full of garbage and stinks. I cannot agree with the metro that they have team leaders, supervisors and litter pickers because I have never seen them in action.
What environmental auditors could ever give Springs good grades for cleanliness, are they deranged?
This is a blatant lie, how on earth did the CBD get level two?
They were obviously nowhere near the taxi rank or station.
In the old days we had women in Springs Town Council overalls and dustcoats pushing large waste bins around the streets cleaning on a continuous basis; they disappeared at independence.
The old concrete rubbish bins are more than 40 years old and not able to cater for today’s fast food and takeaway packets and boxes.
I introduced the green metal swing bins some years ago, but the previous city manager and Springs Waste Department was not aware of them.
Meanwhile there were thousands lying in the grass in the Ekurhuleni storage yard in Bedfordview.
There are still hundreds dumped there, forgotten, rusting in the wet grass.
I asked if we could get a few hundred for the town, but cleansing didn’t have the manpower to service them.
Themba Gadebe cannot claim that ‘our’ corner area is regularly cleaned, he is dreaming.
I go past there every morning and numerous times in a day and have yet to see someone cleaning the place.
The flowerbeds along the road are all dumped with rubbish and it’s been like that for months.
When our casual workers cleaned the place every Friday it was seen to be clean, even though Monday the rubbish started again.
I find it totally unacceptable for the council to lie to us about Springs being cleaned daily because it isn’t, and that’s the truth.
I was recently told by a resident of the hotel next to the park that vagrants take the bins the hotel has put their bottles in and they empty them out in the flowerbeds and then scavenge for what they can sell and leave the rest.
Gadebe can be told without doubt that Springs is the dirtiest it has ever been in its whole existence, and daily litter picking does not exist.
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