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Roaming Pigs come and eat people’s excrements in the streets of Nelson Mandela Bay. Before it was the Gqeberha residents complaining that their yards are now a pool of human excitement.
About 450 residents at Nelson Mandela Bay closed R75 Uitenhage roads and Mission road burning tyers and placing rocks on the roads.
Some residents lives in informal settlement ls and some in RDPs, both household owners wants electricity, water and sanitation. They are doing this because they say the local municipality has not responded to the letter submitted on the 8th April 2021.
Residents also wants Housing Development Agency to e removed from building RDP houses in ward 41 where they come from. Ward Councilor Simphiwe Tyukana is being blamed for failing to get residents basic services.
Public Order Police dispersed the protesters with rubber bullets at 8am and opened the road.
Residents complains that the ward Councilor is failing them, they complain about house to be built, incomplete RDPs, poorly built and invaded RDPs. They want municipality to take over and Simphiwe Tyukana to step down.
Monwabisi Yani, a community leader, explained that on 8 April they had handed a petition to City Council Speaker Jonathan Lawack. “We gave him seven days to respond, but until now we have not heard from him or the relevant departments.”
Bongani Barayi, a community leader of Joe Slovo extension informal settlement, he says that they have only four chemical toilets which two are are broken standpipes. He says that they now have to relieve themselves in nearbg bushes, that’s when Pigs comes and eat.
Tyukana dismissed the accusations against him. “Integrated Development Plan meetings are called by the municipality, not by ward councilors.