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LENTEGEUR TEACHER RUNNER-UP IN NATIONAL AWARDS PAGE 3 PROGRAMME CHANGES FAMILY DYNAMICS Children’s facilitator Mary-Ann Bergman does an icebreaker with the Family Strengthening Programme participants at Cascade Primary School in Tafelsig. Full story on page 5.
COUNCILLORS WARN OF GROWING INFRASTRUCTURE CRISIS AT SUB-COUNCIL MEETING
Leaders call out concerns LAUREN O’CONNOR-MAY
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an we say you can’t go to the toilet anymore in Mitchell’s Plain?” chair Solomon Philander asked the Sub-council 12 meeting. City official Elroy de Villiers replied: “I think we can go as far as that, sir.” They were discussing the potentially “major problem” of the ageing sewerage infrastructure in Tafelsig on Thursday 18 September. Councillor Norman Adonis told participants at the meeting that another sewage pipe had collapsed in Tafelberg Street, Tafelsig, last month. Before that
THE SEWAGE PUMP STATION WAS VANDALISED DURING SERVICE DELIVERY PROTESTS
a pipe had collapsed in Eastridge and it had not yet been fixed. In August a sewerage pipe had also burst in Oliphantshoek Street, Tafelsig. Councillor Avron Plaaitjies added that the increasing population, flushing of foreign objects and vandalising of the pump station exacerbated the problem. Philander concurred. He said: “Mitchell’s Plain is nearly 50 years old and if the infrastructure has not been replaced in these 50 years, we are
going to have infrastructure that is collapsing more frequently.” Philander said that that morning, he had seen sewage pushing up at three places in Tafelsig. “There’s no poo coming up yet,” he said. “But you can see we are heading to a crisis.” Tafelsig is currently operating with one less sewage pump station. The station was closed after it was severely vandalised during service delivery protests last month. De Villiers said that the City had
to do frequent “suck and dumps” to manage the blocked pipes and prevent overflows. “But that is currently all that we can do,” he said. “So Tafelsig is about to have … Philander interrupted him to ask: “An explosion?” He replied: “... Major problems.” Philander suggested that the Sub-council table the issue and come up with a plan at the next Activity Day.
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20 U-16 TEAMS VYING FOR 50TH ANNIVERSARY GAVIN MANUEL Also on the agenda was Mitchell’s Plain’s 50th LEGACY CUP anniversary next year. PAGE 8 TO PAGE 4
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