{"id":242486,"date":"2022-11-09T21:48:44","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T19:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.groundup.org.za\/article\/makana-has-again-failed-to-obey-court-order-on-dumpsites-says-lrc\/"},"modified":"2022-11-09T21:48:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T19:48:44","slug":"makana-has-again-failed-to-obey-court-order-says-lrc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/makana-has-again-failed-to-obey-court-order-says-lrc\/","title":{"rendered":"Makana has again failed to obey court order, says LRC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article_body\">\n<p><a class=\"bigger-image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.groundup.org.za\/media\/uploads\/images\/photographers\/loyiso_dyongman\/dumpext3after-loyisodyongman-20221109.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt class=\"warn_big\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/makana-has-again-failed-to-obey-court-order-says-lrc.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">A dumpsite in Extension 3, Makhanda. Photo: Loyiso Dyongman<\/p>\n<p>The Legal Resources Centre has accused the Makana Municipality of failing to comply with a September 2021 court ruling ordering the municipality to identify and clear all illegal dumpsites in Makhanda.<\/p>\n<p>Frustrated Makhanda residents<a href=\"https:\/\/www.groundup.org.za\/article\/it-took-court-order-now-makana-municipality-says-it-cleaning-city\/\"> took the municipality to court in 2020<\/a> for its failure to clean up illegal dump sites, provide refuse bins and bags and collect rubbish regularly. On 19 September 2021 the Grahamstown High Court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.groundup.org.za\/media\/uploads\/documents\/makhanda\/makhanda_order2.pdf\">ordered<\/a> the municipality to<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>clean up seven unofficial dumpsites within 14 days;<\/li>\n<li>provide three refuse bags to each household per week within 14 days;<\/li>\n<li>work with communities to identify all other illegal dumpsites within 30 days;<\/li>\n<li>clear all illegal dumpsites within 120 days of the court order; and<\/li>\n<li>prepare a comprehensive audit of its waste management needs within three months and provide that to the LRC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In February this year the LRC again <a href=\"https:\/\/www.groundup.org.za\/article\/makana-municipality-faces-more-court-action-over-filth\/\">urged the municipality to comply<\/a> with the order.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt class=\"leave\" height=\"1\" id=\"gu_counter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/makana-has-again-failed-to-obey-court-order-says-lrc.gif\" width=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.groundup.org.za\/media\/uploads\/documents\/makhanda\/ezihagwini_-_1.pdf\">affidavit<\/a> to the court on 19 October 2022, the municipality said it had now \u201ctaken the necessary steps under the circumstances to comply with the court order.\u201d The municipality named several sites which had been cleared, some repeatedly, including some next to schools. In addition, the municipality said, R2-million had been sourced to purchase a waste management fleet dedicated to illegal dumping, a skip container truck valued at R2.8 million had been donated, and R5-million had been received to build a \u201cmaterial recovery and recycling plant\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"bigger-image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.groundup.org.za\/media\/uploads\/images\/photographers\/loyiso_dyongman\/dumpext3-loyisodyongman-20221109.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/makana-has-again-failed-to-obey-court-order-says-lrc-1.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">The same site after the municipality had cleaned up. Photo: Loyiso Dyongman<\/p>\n<p>But in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.groundup.org.za\/media\/uploads\/documents\/makhanda\/2022_10_26_-_letter_to_makana_-_ezihagweni.pdf\">response<\/a> on 27 October, the LRC\u2019s Cameron McConnachie said though progress had been made, \u201cthere is a long way to go\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNumerous unofficial, unlawful dumpsites remain scattered around Makhanda,\u201d said McConnachie. He said \u201ca concerted effort must be made\u201d if the municipality was to comply with the court order and avoid contempt of court proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>In his letter McConnachie asked the municipality to \u201cplease provide the complete list of the 117 dumpsites identified and indicate which ones have been cleared.\u201d He also asked for details of other steps referred to in the municipality\u2019s affidavit, including the R2-million waste management fleet, the skip container truck, and the R5-million \u201cmaterial recovery and recycling\u201d plant.<\/p>\n<p>Questions sent by GroundUp to municipal manager Phumelelo Kate and mayor Yandiswa Vara last week were not answered.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"article_copyright\">\n<p>\u00a9 2022 GroundUp. 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If you republish, please do not delete the invisible pixel.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/makana-has-again-failed-to-obey-court-order-says-lrc.jpg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.groundup.org.za\/\">Source: GroundUp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dumpsite in Extension 3, Makhanda. Photo: Loyiso Dyongman The Legal Resources Centre has accused the Makana Municipality of failing to comply with a September 2021 court ruling ordering the municipality to identify and clear all illegal dumpsites in Makhanda. Frustrated Makhanda residents took the municipality to court in 2020 for its failure to clean [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":242487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9928],"tags":[28001],"class_list":{"0":"post-242486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-groundup","8":"tag-groundup","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/makana-has-again-failed-to-obey-court-order-says-lrc.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}