Natalie Nyathi
Voices continue to grow louder against the Bulawayo City Council’s ( BCC) poor service delivery.
Residents are up in arms against BCC for many issues that include poor refuse collection and the increasing number of burst pipes that are fleeting the most parts of the City.
Cowdray Park high density Surburb residents recently took it upon themselves to shutdown water supply to the Garikai- Hlalanikuhle section of their sprawling neighborhood in order to arrest the emergence of a small stream that had emerged because of flowing water from a burst pipe.
Another resident a MaNdlovu told Zim GBC News that she fears City Fathers will bill rate payers in order to compensate for the lost water through the burst pipe.
“Mina okungibhowayo yikuthi khanya angathi sokulamaCouncil amabili lapha esigabeni, ngitsho njalo ngoba abavalileyo amanzi asibeBCC ngabantu njee kuphela, ngiyazwisisa ukuthi bebengafuni ukuthi amanzi adlaliseke kodwa bekumele becabange ukuthi amanzi vele ngokwawo ayahamba kusasa abantu besebevala shua amanzi hayyy ahh wona amanzi eluhlupho vele”,
(what irks me is that it seems as if there are now two councils, the Bulawayo City Council and the Cowdray Park council, am saying so because certain people here took it upon themselves to close the water supply without consulting us as closing the water supply also affects us as already there is a water rationing program)
said a resident who appeared irked with actions of other residents in the neighborhood because of the illegal closure of the water supply to the Garikai- Hlalanikuhle section of Cowdray Park.
Meanwhile, incidents of unattended burst water pipes continue to increase with one common location being a site between Leopard Takawira and 6th Avenue along George Silundika street a stone throw away from the City Hall.