RESIDENTS in Bokmakierie, Athlone, claim they are back to using the bucket system as they’ve been sukkelling with severe unsanitary sewage problems for the past three months.
Resident Glen Williams claims that despite repeated efforts to resolve their plumbing and drainage issues with the City of Cape Town, the situation has only worsened.
He says that the blockages are causing the toilets to be clogged and leading to sewage backups that are spilling into the backyards of residents and is a gevaarlike health hazard.
Glen explains: “I go and complain to the councillor everyday.
“We have entered our third month with this same problem and several trucks have come out to ‘assist’, and we have received SMS notifications stating that the issue has been resolved but they don’t fix nothing.…
