Alarm bells have been sounded over Buffalo City Metro’s apparent inability to protect vital infrastructure after metro staff were reportedly chased off sewage treatment and water infrastructure sites by vandals and scrap metal thieves. Local activists and opposition councillors have accused the city of failing to address the crime, neglecting to make necessary repairs and ignoring the ticking environmental and health timebombs caused by effluent flowing into watercourses because of non-functi.
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For almost 24 years Welcome Williams, who lives in a shack in Parkridge in East London, has pleaded with Buffalo City municipality officials to provide him with decent shelter. Williams, 51, applied for an RDP house from BCM and has renewed his application seven times, with no positive response from city authorities.