The Green Jobs Unit currently deployed to the area is cleaning up the dumping hotspots, one corner at a time.
The Green Jobs Unit forms part of the City of Cape Town’s biodiversity branch of the spatial planning and environment department.
Ward 82 councillor Washiela Harris says the team was first deployed to the greater Mitchell’s Plain area in April. Tafelsig is one of the major dumping hotspots in the area.
“The illegal dumping is not stopping,” she says.
“The hotspot dumping areas are the focus.
“The need for the intervention is where residents take ownership and take the City’s hand and say no more dumping in our communities.”
They will be deployed until the end of the financial year.
The City spends millions of rands on illegal dumping annually.
“Workers were selected at random from the City’s database. A total of 60 workers are from everywhere in the Mitchell’s Plain area as they do the whole of Mitchell’s Plain,” says Harris.
