The acting City Manager (CM), Tebogo Motlashuping, tells OFM News that more resources have been made available to deal with littering in the city. He says more vehicles have been made available to law enforcement officers to deal with transgressors. He says this is to make sure that the municipal bylaws are enforced and the culprits are dealt with accordingly.

Motlashuping said this during the commencement of the metro's cleaning campaign across the central business district (CBD) and other areas.

"We will ensure that there is strict adherence to the bylaws of the city. We have also made available enough vehicles for law enforcement, as I have indicated. So we are cleaning and any other person who is seen dumping illegally will be dealt with, he adds.

The metro has also come under scrutiny for its failure to collect or remove waste in time. Residents have raised their concerns on numerous times about waste not collected across the metro for weeks, if not a month.

The Auditor-General (AG) Tsakani Maluleke previously revealed that the cash-strapped metro municipality’s road and water network infrastructure deteriorated because the ailing metro, amongst others issues, failed to properly spend its infrastructure budget accordingly.

“Unmetered consumption, theft and a lack of maintenance resulted in average water losses of 49% and electricity distribution losses of 20%. Service delivery protests increased as residents grew increasingly dissatisfied with pothole-riddled roads, having to go for days without water, and refuse sometimes not being collected for weeks,” she adds.

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