Living in a lake of raw sewage

NO-GO AREA: STENCH UNBEARABLE, POSES HEALTH RISK’

- Zanele Mbengo

Matter reported many times but nothing resolved.

For more than a decade, Olga Mathebula has had to live with a lake of sewage in her yard... and her repeated pleas to local authorities to fix the problem have fallen on deaf ears.

She and her family and tenants at the property in Anaboon Street in Palm Ridge Extension 4 on the East Rand, have had to deal with the persistent stench and fear they will pick up a disease.

"Half of my yard is dead, even the soil and the grass are no longer healthy. I have reported this numerous times but situation is still bad," she said.

Her tenants had to endure not only the foul stench, but also health concerns arising from exposure to raw sewage.