Vagrants are complicit in the vandalism of the War Memorial in Eighth Avenue, Walmer, and adding to its woes is the drug paraphernalia flooding the empty tomb honouring the dead from World War 1.
Hillcrest Primary School staff and pupils in Helenvale are at their wit’s end having to teach with a terrible stench from sewage flowing alongside the school from a blocked drain for the past month.
Community leaders from the Dameni informal settlement in George say if their cries to the municipality to have taps installed had been heard, the fire that destroyed more than 20 shacks on December 10 could have been avoided.