The great Russell Road bin heist is over almost as quickly as it unfolded, leaving the public-private inner city regeneration team that saw them installed somewhat confused but more street-smart and more determined than ever to forge ahead.
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.
Only a handful of people have ever completed the Cape Recife Lighthouse swim, which is awash with stories of sharks and dangerous conditions and now, for the first time, four women have joined the small band of salt water warriors.