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For over a decade, residents of Mingard village in Elim in Limpopo have been struggling with the foul odour from spills of raw sewage flowing into their yards.
Suddenly, a day after GroundUp contacted the municipality to ask for comment on the issue, workers were sent to fix the sewerage network.
Residents of Mingard village, about 20km from Louis Trichardt, say they have been complaining for years about blockages, overflows and breakdowns in the sewerage system which lead to raw sewage in their streets and the yards of their homes.
They say though Vhembe District Municipality has sometimes sent workers to fix the problem, it always recurs.
Temporary solutions to a sewage problem in Limpopo
GroundUp visited the village on 31 July. Sewage was running into several homes and yards.
We sent questions to Vhembe District Municipality spokesperson Matodzi Ralushai, and the next day, 1 August 2024, workers from the municipality were in the village working on the sewer system. |
