The Ga-Segonyana local municipality council meeting held on November 29, 2018 was explosive as it held numerous issues regarding satisfactory service delivery to residents. Among the spine-chilling revelations was the gross mismanagement of the Wrenchville landfill site.

The Municipal Public Accounts Committee team led by councillor Freddy Moagi who had gone to investigate the state of the site, released a damning report to the council by simply saying that there was disaster. Looking at both ends objectively; the team called a spade a spade when they concluded that the contractor was doing shoddy work. The team reciprocally scrutinised the contract which stipulates how the contractor must operate and it was found to be porous.

 “I can say, according to the report, reverberated the speaker, is that the contract is resplendent with loopholes and therefore not binding the contractor to manage the site to the minimum requirements. Secondly, the responsible officials failed to execute their duties as they did not take remedial steps to caution the contractor of his shortfalls. There is a vague security issue at the site, because there is no security and the dumping site and there are free-for-all classes of waste.

As a result, officials have been advised to implement recommendations raised at the council to ensure that there is sanity at the site, by monitoring the site on a daily basis, by reviewing the contract and adjusting sections that compromise contractual adherence.

For the past two years the ward one DA councillor Willie Aucamp has been condemning the state of the land fill site, but this appeal has been falling on deaf ears. The opposition councillor said that his complaint fell on deaf ears after engaging the green scorpions to examine the state of the site.

Meanwhile, the contractor was spewing fire following the report released by the council, claiming that he is dealing more with hazardous waste from the mines than with domestic waste management as his contractual portfolio requires. According to the contractor, the municipality is charging mines a lucrative fee to dispose of their hazardous waste at the site. “I am dealing with almost 90% of hazardous and medical waste from the mines and hospitals totally outside the agreement.”

The Wrenchville landfill site remains under close scrutiny of the council.