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A re bueng column
ESTABLISHED 1991
WEDNESDAY 68 AUGUST 2014
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Residents blockade road Demand service delivery and replacement of bucket system } Sidwell Guduka THE community of the MK1 square in Bloemfontein blockaded Sengonzo Street in Phelindaba with burning tyres and rocks last week. They were furious about poor service delivery and the use of the bucket system in the area. The disgruntled protesters also claimed that sometimes the buckets were not collected for up to a month. One of the protesters, who asked to remain anonymous, said he disliked the government because they were failing to deliver their mandate. “I think the white government was much better than this government. “It is sad because these (the current government) are the people we voted into power. “We keep voting them into power, but they do not help us. “They are failing to deliver,” the protester said. “There is no service delivery in our area. “We want flushing toilets. It is sad that we are still using a bucket system 20 years into democracy, and they have not been emptied for three weeks. “So, we decided to block this road to get the attention of the Mangaung Metro Municipality,” he said. “We are being ignored and we don’t know why. “Are we not citizens of South Africa?” Thobeka, who, like other residents Express spoke to in the same area, did not want to give her surname.
UP IN ARMS: MK1 residents blocked Sengonzo Street in Phelindaba with burning tyres and rocks. “We have been living here since 1994, but we don’t have water and toilets. “In fact, we only have one tap
in the whole area and there are more than 400 people living here. We want development, we have nothing,” she said.
) Express tried to obtain comment from Qondile Khedama, the Mangaung Metro Municipality’s spokesperson, but at the time of
Photo: Sidwell Guduka
going to print he had not yet responded to the questions the newspaper had emailed to him the previous week.