I own and manage a business in Milner Road, North End, for many years now.
My establishment is an important part of the local community in the area, however, the lack of support from the municipality in terms of providing services is affecting our success.
Dumping is a chronic problem here on Milner Road and I am fed up and frustrated about the filthy surroundings in which we have to conduct business daily.
Patrons take one look at the area surrounding our business and feel it is safer to avoid doing business with us.
The image of the business is losing face and all because the municipality does not care about us as ratepayers.
As ratepayers we are also not provided with effective platforms to express our concerns. The numbers we have to contact the municipality are never in service and we never have local ratepayers meetings to hear back from our ward councillor.
The state of the area is part of the degeneration of our town, a cancer spreading throughout the Eastern Cape and the rest of SA sadly.
I know too that this gripe has been voiced by so many people already but if we do not shame the municipality continuously they will persist in their poor treatment of us. — CONCERNED BUSINESS OWNER IN WARD 3
