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Daily News: ‘No rubbish collection since election’

http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/kwazulu-natal/no-rubbish-collection-since-election-1.1724504

By Mphathi Nxumalo

Durban – Nothando Ngema fears for the health of her unborn child.

The 20-year-old, who is five months pregnant, lives next to piles of uncollected refuse and is greeted by its powerful stench in the morning. When she goes to sleep at night it’s the last thing she smells.

Ngema is one of many residents in Durban’s Cato Crest informal settlement who believe their children are at risk from the rubbish festering outside their homes.

This week the residents threatened to barricade the N3 with burning tyres unless the municipality cleared the rubbish.

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