Should the days of show boards be numbered?

Writer: Stephen de Stadler Managing Director Fine & Country Hermanus, Arabella and Kleinmond.

During the course of my career I have been fortunate enough to travel extensively outside our borders. From world cities with histories going back centuries to scenic rural towns across both Europe and Africa, one of the issues that all these inhabited areas have in common is the proliferation of waste and litter generated by the human species.

Driving behind a car in Johannesburg recently, my vehicle was “assaulted” by the packaging of a meal provided by a well-known take-away outlet. That same afternoon I was viewing a property with a colleague and en route we passed an informal settlement where a pile of waste had accumulated to the extent that it was encroaching on the road. In the latter case the settlement probably had no formal refuse removal service, yet I could not help but wonder if there was not a potential quick win for a local politician if the municipality could be persuaded to provide a garbage dumpster in a central location. That would at least enable the people living in that informal settlement to keep their environment cleaner.

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