While the Russell Road Regeneration Project is progressing well, a sewage leak running down the cliff from Dollery Street continues to cause problems, despite repeated alerts sent to the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality.
Tenants in the row of “problem houses” in Dollery Street have denied that they are emptying refuse and sewage over their balconies into Russell Road, where a cleanup and renewal project is under way.
Gqeberha residents are pulling together to restore a busy but once gracious thoroughfare in Richmond Hill that has been brought to the brink by criminals, drug addicts, rogue tenants and tonnes of rat-infested rubbish and excrement.