KOSOVO informal settlement residents have threatened to take the rubbish in the area and discard it on the R300 highway if the City of Cape Town fails to collect it on time.
B-Section residents accused the city of locking up shipping containers that were distributed to put rubbish in.
"We are living like pigs. The whole of Kosovo stinks. The city opens the shipping container in their own time and that forces residents to dump rubbish outside it. Sometimes it piles up to the top next to the container," resident Nolwandle Busakhwe, who lives next to the container, said.
She said every time city employees came to collect they don't take all the rubbish.
"We know if they (city employees) arrive to collect it they will not take it away completely. They always leave some, saying they will come back because their truck is full, but they never do," she said.
"They know that there's a lot of rubbish here, why don't they bring another truck?"
Another resident, Nolulamo Siko, said people sometimes dumped the carcasses of dogs and cats.
"We don't know our sin because when it's time for elections we vote," she said. "But when it's time for service delivery we always get a poor deal."
She said her concern was that their lives were in danger.
"Everyone in Kosovo is sick. Our children have rashes and sores and others have diarrhoea."
Xolani Buso threatened to take the rubbish and discard it on the R300 highway.
"We had a public meeting with community leaders and told them how we were living. They vowed to forward our grievances to the councillor, but the rubbish is still here."
Rubbish protest - 'Take it, or we'll dump it'
KOSOVO informal settlement residents have threatened to take the rubbish in the area and discard it on the R300 highway if the City of Cape Town fails to collect it on time.
B-Section residents accused the city of locking up shipping containers that were distributed to put rubbish in.
"We are living like pigs. The whole of Kosovo stinks. The city opens the shipping container in their own time and that forces residents to dump rubbish outside it. Sometimes it piles up to the top next to the container," resident Nolwandle Busakhwe, who lives next to the container, said.
She said every time city employees came to collect they don't take all the rubbish.
"We know if they (city employees) arrive to collect it they will not take it away completely. They always leave some, saying they will come back because their truck is full, but they never do," she said.
"They know that there's a lot of rubbish here, why don't they bring another truck?"
Another resident, Nolulamo Siko, said people sometimes dumped the carcasses of dogs and cats.
"We don't know our sin because when it's time for elections we vote," she said. "But when it's time for service delivery we always get a poor deal."
She said her concern was that their lives were in danger.
"Everyone in Kosovo is sick. Our children have rashes and sores and others have diarrhoea."
Xolani Buso threatened to take the rubbish and discard it on the R300 highway.
"We had a public meeting with community leaders and told them how we were living. They vowed to forward our grievances to the councillor, but the rubbish is still here."
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