TWO days after a main water supply pipe burst in Mamelodi, Pretoria, and left shack dwellers homeless and the area without water, a 32-year-old mother is still battling to accept that her baby was one of two children who died.
I so much feel for the families that lost their babies, but I think people should stop building shacks in places where there's danger looming esp. where there is a route of the water-pipes and electricity cables such can be avoided.
The municipality too should make sure that they deal with such squatters as soon as the camp is set, because now the people who were placing those squatters have spent the money the poor people paid for those pieces of land and we are now sitting with a problem of placing these families. Report Abuse
Aug 22, 2012
skwamasamabele
The Tshwane Metro has since offered to assist bereaved families with the burial of the victims.
What??!! are these people living on the same planet as everyone else? These residents of Phomolong need decent housing, and they have ( as black people we always have) the means to bury their babies but if that is not to happen again, how about Tshwane Metro offer decent accomodation somewhere safe? Report Abuse
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JB$
Marikana came to Mams it was chaos all over yesterday people looking for waterAnd the pipe burst two days ago even today there is still parts of Mams without water
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THEOZA
I so much feel for the families that lost their babies, but I think people should stop building shacks in places where there's danger looming esp. where there is a route of the water-pipes and electricity cables such can be avoided.The municipality too should make sure that they deal with such squatters as soon as the camp is set, because now the people who were placing those squatters have spent the money the poor people paid for those pieces of land and we are now sitting with a problem of placing these families.
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skwamasamabele
The Tshwane Metro has since offered to assist bereaved families with the burial of the victims.What??!! are these people living on the same planet as everyone else? These residents of Phomolong need decent housing, and they have ( as black people we always have) the means to bury their babies but if that is not to happen again, how about Tshwane Metro offer decent accomodation somewhere safe?
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