Dear Editor,
I am a resident of Herstelling housing scheme. I wrote several letters about the mosquito invasion in this scheme, but only twice last year did they come and spray.
They have unoccupied house lots in here, with grass waist high that harbours snakes. You see them sometimes at night or early morning, crawling when the place is cool.
The next problem is the road, which is made of red loam and becomes a mess when it rains. To walk,
children and adults have to skip and jump to get out to work and school.
Housing sent in a manager last year. He received complaints from residents about cows damaging the road and making it worse. The Housing Minister had a meeting with the owner and he promised to find somewhere for them within three months. The owner lives on the main road and employs persons to look after them. Every day around 11.00 am or 10.30 am, they bring out the cows, rain or sun; about 60 of them. They don’t walk in the potholes, but on the parapet where persons have to walk, in order to get to the unoccupied lands to graze.
In addition, the road is also high and low.
Residents had to pay so much for these house lots ($500,000) and still can’t get proper roads in here.
The manager no longer visits. I am appealing to the Minister of Housing to come in one Saturday to see the condition of the road.
To get to the road in question, you one must cross the fourth bridge, turn the first corner left (facing east), then the first corner thereafter (with the mauve house situated at the junction). Once on that road, you will see the cross streets and the large potholes.
Yours faithfully,
E John
