The metro’s two-week-old pile of uncollected trash is growing and so is fury among people.
More residents are finding their refuse is still on their pavement.
Hospitals, schools and businesses are also looking on in anger as piles of putrid waste balloon on or near their premises.
The issue is apparently a lack of vehicles, said property management boss Gwyn Bassingthwaighte and DA councillor Isabelle Thompson.
Bassingthwaighte is threatening legal action.
The Dispatch reported this week that residents from Beacon Bay, Gonubie and Southernwood were affected by the chaos.
They have been joined by complaining residents from Cambridge and Mdantsane.
Grace Bruintjies from Cambridge said: “There are flies and rats and we have children and elderly people who are affected by this stink and health hazard in our area.”
Residents said they had to put up with disposable diapers being ripped out of bin bags and scattered around by dogs.
IGB Property’s principal Hanlie Bassingthwaighte said her company had taken the issue to their lawyers.
Bassingthwaighte said: “Our clients are complaining about the dirt. Some of our clients are even threatening to leave East London.
“We have been paying the municipality for a job they are failing to do. Their incompetence costs us thousands because we still have to pay a private company to do their job. This is an ongoing battle we have with the municipality and we are gatvol, really.
“If we had our way we would not do the business with them. We are being forced by the municipality to fork out thousands of rands for a service they can’t provide.
“Every month we pay more than R50000 for the different properties we manage,” Bassingthwaighte said.
BCM spokesman Thandy Matebese failed to comment to questions sent by the Dispatch yesterday.
Contacted for comment, community services portfolio head Sangweni Matwele said he was “in a meeting” and ended the call.
Angry Ward 18 councillor Thompson said she was also having no luck in getting the community service department to clean up her ward.
She said in her ward Southernwood was one of the most neglected by the BCM community services department.
“At Selborne College and the hostel the rubbish was not collected for two weeks. The situation is appalling at the Eldorado retirement centre. I have to fight for the rubbish to be collected.
“Every time I call the department they say they haven’t got the trucks,” Thompson said.
Uncollected rubbish has residents up in arms
More residents are finding their refuse is still on their pavement.
Hospitals, schools and businesses are also looking on in anger as piles of putrid waste balloon on or near their premises.
The issue is apparently a lack of vehicles, said property management boss Gwyn Bassingthwaighte and DA councillor Isabelle Thompson.
Bassingthwaighte is threatening legal action.
The Dispatch reported this week that residents from Beacon Bay, Gonubie and Southernwood were affected by the chaos.
They have been joined by complaining residents from Cambridge and Mdantsane.
Grace Bruintjies from Cambridge said: “There are flies and rats and we have children and elderly people who are affected by this stink and health hazard in our area.”
Residents said they had to put up with disposable diapers being ripped out of bin bags and scattered around by dogs.
IGB Property’s principal Hanlie Bassingthwaighte said her company had taken the issue to their lawyers.
Bassingthwaighte said: “Our clients are complaining about the dirt. Some of our clients are even threatening to leave East London.
“We have been paying the municipality for a job they are failing to do. Their incompetence costs us thousands because we still have to pay a private company to do their job. This is an ongoing battle we have with the municipality and we are gatvol, really.
“If we had our way we would not do the business with them. We are being forced by the municipality to fork out thousands of rands for a service they can’t provide.
“Every month we pay more than R50000 for the different properties we manage,” Bassingthwaighte said.
BCM spokesman Thandy Matebese failed to comment to questions sent by the Dispatch yesterday.
Contacted for comment, community services portfolio head Sangweni Matwele said he was “in a meeting” and ended the call.
Angry Ward 18 councillor Thompson said she was also having no luck in getting the community service department to clean up her ward.
She said in her ward Southernwood was one of the most neglected by the BCM community services department.
“At Selborne College and the hostel the rubbish was not collected for two weeks. The situation is appalling at the Eldorado retirement centre. I have to fight for the rubbish to be collected.
“Every time I call the department they say they haven’t got the trucks,” Thompson said.
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