Ashraf Limbada News Today

The cleanup of Durban Road in Gqeberha is a step towards order and progress for one of the dirtiest and most congested streets in the city.

Durban Road has been spruced up, with the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality cracking down on traffic and bylaw violations in a bid to restore law and order to the notorious Gqeberha road.

Magine walking up to your business premises in the morning and you find someone defecating in front of the door.

Frustrated by empty promises from the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality, Korsten business owners have taken matters into their own hands and employed residents to clean up the filthy business precinct.

Traffic congestion, a rising crime rate and lack of visible policing, piles of rubbish everywhere that are magnets for rats, and businesses forced to operate from the street.

Just more than a year after the mayhem that erupted in Korsten, sparked by an accident between a taxi driver and a foreigner, and fuelled by simmering tensions over the lack of service delivery and law enforcement, nothing much has changed.

Nelson Mandela Bay traffic officers were out in full force in Durban Road on Monday, conducting spot checks.

SA is a bubbling pot of anger and frustration, spilling over every so often and causing mayhem in the process.