Buffalo City Metro says three houses in Mdantsane’s Unit P damaged by a runaway truck would be repaired by end of the month.
Homeowners Norati Dyani and Khanyisa Jayiya are, however sceptical about the metro’s promise, saying they will believe it when they see it. Their homes were damaged three months ago after a runaway construction truck crashed into them.
The Daily Dispatch reported earlier how BCM, their contractors Likhithemba and Geer Constructions, and truck owner Allen and Clarke, were passing the buck over who was responsible for fixing the houses.
Metro spokesman Sibusiso Cindi said: “In May this year, a truck belonging to a company that subcontracted to a company that has a road construction contract with BCM lost control and ran over three houses.
“BCM has a service agreement with the contractor and not the subcontractor. On hearing about this matter, BCM then followed it up and we discovered that one of the low-cost houses was badly damaged and the two other houses had minor damages,” Cindi added.
The Daily Dispatch was unable to establish who the third house belonged to.
Following the accident, BCM temporarily-placed the woman in the seriously damaged house into another house that was not occupied.
They then did an inspection of the houses and the household goods and presented the reports to the contractor. Cindi said the metro met with all affected parties on Friday.
“BCM officials informed the house owners that the contractor has registered a claim from its insurance company.
“The insurance has made an undertaking to pay costs by end of August,” Cindi said.
Dyani, a pensioner, who is sleeping in an uninhabitable structure as a result of the accident, said she no longer believed anything metro officials told her.
Her house, which she shared with five children, was severely damaged when the truck, a water tanker, crashed into it. The accident was blamed on the truck’s gears and brakes failing. Before it crashed in to Dyani’s house, it demolished the garden wall and lounge belonging to Jayiya, a school teacher in the area. — zwangam@dispatch.co.za
Houses damaged by truck to be fixed, says BCM
Homeowners Norati Dyani and Khanyisa Jayiya are, however sceptical about the metro’s promise, saying they will believe it when they see it. Their homes were damaged three months ago after a runaway construction truck crashed into them.
The Daily Dispatch reported earlier how BCM, their contractors Likhithemba and Geer Constructions, and truck owner Allen and Clarke, were passing the buck over who was responsible for fixing the houses.
Metro spokesman Sibusiso Cindi said: “In May this year, a truck belonging to a company that subcontracted to a company that has a road construction contract with BCM lost control and ran over three houses.
“BCM has a service agreement with the contractor and not the subcontractor. On hearing about this matter, BCM then followed it up and we discovered that one of the low-cost houses was badly damaged and the two other houses had minor damages,” Cindi added.
The Daily Dispatch was unable to establish who the third house belonged to.
Following the accident, BCM temporarily-placed the woman in the seriously damaged house into another house that was not occupied.
They then did an inspection of the houses and the household goods and presented the reports to the contractor. Cindi said the metro met with all affected parties on Friday.
“BCM officials informed the house owners that the contractor has registered a claim from its insurance company.
“The insurance has made an undertaking to pay costs by end of August,” Cindi said.
Dyani, a pensioner, who is sleeping in an uninhabitable structure as a result of the accident, said she no longer believed anything metro officials told her.
Her house, which she shared with five children, was severely damaged when the truck, a water tanker, crashed into it. The accident was blamed on the truck’s gears and brakes failing. Before it crashed in to Dyani’s house, it demolished the garden wall and lounge belonging to Jayiya, a school teacher in the area. — zwangam@dispatch.co.za
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