She left her house in Connaught Street, Paul Krugersoord, to attend a funeral on August 21 and returned two days later to find the manhole next to her house overflowing with human waste.
“Sometimes the sewage floods up to my back door and I am scared it will come into my house and onto the carpet,” she says.
She is not able to open her back door to get fresh air due to the unbearable smell.
When it floods the courtyard of her property, she is forced to hose down the cement.
Khosi reported the overflowing manhole to the Ekurhuleni Metro‘s call centre two weeks ago and was given a reference number.
“No one from the metro has been to fix the problem,” she says.
Khosi adds she phones the call centre every second day to find out what is happening.
“They told me it has been reported and I just have to wait until someone comes out to fix it,” she says.
She is disappointed with the municipality’s lack of response.
According to Khosi, the same problem occurred about a year ago.
“It was explained to me that the problem stems from across the road where the drains get blocked and need to be cleaned regularly,” she says.
No comment was received from the metro at the time of publishing.
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