While acknowledging that the government intervention at the Mandela Landfill site was welcomed, acting Mayor Robert Williams stated that the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) is too cash-strapped to properly manage the site.
Yesterday, at a press briefing at City Hall, Williams said that currently it costs the M&CC $500,000 to operate five bulldozers and at times two excavators at the site. However, he emphasised that the landfill should have been closed 10 years ago.
The briefing was in response to the ministerial visit to the landfill by the ministers of Public Works and Local Government,