Kaya News Team
Bekkersdaal residents are planning to take to the streets again, 12 years after violent protests over service delivery.
Residents of the Westrand township are threatening to shut all services until President Cyril Ramaphosa visits their ignored community.
Kaya News reports that the residents are complaining that since their much-publicised protests over poor service delivery 12 years ago, nothing has changed.
In 2013, Bekkersdal residents held violent protests damaging infrastructure.
They say the sewage they complained about in 2013 is still overflowing on the streets causing unpleasant smells in their homes.
The angry residents are also complaining about uncollected refuse which has caused illegal dumping on the streets.
The list of complaints extends to high levels of crime, lack of water supply, disruption of electricity and lack of recreational facilities.
The residents feel that their Rand West City local municipality, their mayor William Machafeng, their MECs in Gauteng and Premier Panyaza Lesufi have abandoned them.
They now want President Cyril Ramaphosa to visit their township so that he can have a first-hand account into their problems.
The Kaya News team recently visited Bekkersdaal and found that the standard of basic service delivery has severely deteriorated.
The township is dirty with refuse on the streets.
Raw sewage is still flowing on the streets leaving some streets inaccessible because of sewage spillage.
Some service providers who worked on the streets removed the tar and left the roads untarred.
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