As a follow up on my previous Article...
Since last night we've been without electricity (again... at least we had water) and in the darkness...sitting at work with nothing to do but think.... I'm really starting to get worried deep inside.
and I've come to the following conclusion:
IT'S TOO LATE!
I honestly do not think that any amount of money or power or people will ever be able to save our city.
Witbank... or now known as eMalahleni... my childhood town... is becoming a Dump to say the least.
If you open the Local news paper you are bound to read about only 4 things....
City Problems... (sewage,electricity,water etc.)
Crime...
Accidents...
and... o.k well make that 3 things...
The water situation has been going on for so long that I fear it is probably beyond repair.
Same with the electrical problems...
They keep on temporarily fixing the problems and over the long run it just keeps getting worse and worse!
There is TOO MUCH wrong! And nobody who cares!
The reason I say... It's too late...
The latest test show an amount of 2390000 e-coli specimens in every 100ml of water in the dam... so basically our whole dam is one big sewage collection point.
People are advised in the Local News paper today... "Please don't swim in the dam... and refrain form recreational activities in the dam until the problem is solved"
BUT... water drain into the ground...and I'm afraid that slowly our problem might be polluting the whole city if not worse. The water flows down to other towns. After the First rains that fell last night and today I'm honestly concerned about what might be happening around witbank. Middelburg, Loskop, Groblersdal... they are all down"stream" from witbank dam.
How will they ever be able to clean up the amount of germs and sewage that is already currently in the Dam? How will they stop it from contaminating other dams and places? CAN IT BE STOPPED?
The sky is dark with clouds and the coming rains seems more dooming that enlightening.
Am I the only person seeing the bigger problem here?
And still I'm feeling small and helpless! what can I do?
Sitting here in the Darkness of our office I can't even do my normal day to day work so what am I to do?
Slowly I am seeing this place around me turn into a place I am ashamed and scared to call a home to my kids. And all our mayor is worried about is a new Mercedes for her to drive in.
For weeks on end our rubbish bags was not collected due to only 3 of the 18 removal trucks being in working order! The Rubbish bags formed mountains all over the city. How long will it be before diseases start breaking out and spreading due to the malfunctioning of this place? And still our mayor thinks everything is Perfect in our little town...
There is TOO much wrong...
TOO much to fix...
And honestly I think they don't even know where to start...
Well I think a great starting point might be by replacing the people making the decisions... The people that caused all this problems...
as they say... A new broom sweeps the cleanest...
well we need more than a few new brooms to clean up this place!
Disclaimer: All articles and letters published on MyNews24 have been independently written by members of News24's community. The views of users published on News24 are therefore their own and do not necessarily represent the views of News24. News24 editors also reserve the right to edit or delete any and all comments received.
