Joko Tea Scatter Camp

Dumping crisis at the following squatter camp Joko tea

The above mentiond illegal shacks are stil situated nexto Bophelong and Movhango the RDP houses,in Gauteng Region,at Vanderbijlpark at the Vaal triangle. People dumps rubbish everywhere at the teniss court next to the houses and everywhere they see open space. There number of informal settlement arround the area that has been formed since 1994 till now 2011.

The informal settlement are called Tenis court that is situated next to Bonane and Movhango. the name Tenis court became ,because were Tenis court next to them,being used by the old Townshiop people of Bophelong,to play Tenis.The Donosa according to few people I interviewed they say that the were only man who worked by then so they they used to buy  woman to sleep with them ,so Donosa came because of that situation.

Many people who are staying in Joko Tea, Tennis Court and Donosa are they people who were removed from polluted plots by ArcelorMitta .Each name of this infromal settlements ,decide to stay were ever get space that is why the names are difference.

People live with dumping arround their houses ,also in their yards because some of them are waste.This dumping coused  by domestic and also by the cooporates came to dump what ever they like at this illegal shacks eg.Goverrnment,bring brings the mixture of slag and soil to this squatter camps,ssaying that they fix the passages or can say roads ,so that water can not stay.When the community ask what is this black soil ,they say is the crusher. There are aslo waste pickers in the area collecting things to sell and eat.

Last month this Municipality with their tractors came to offload this black soil to joko tea saying again they fix road ,and the is no roads at joko tea.

The community fear is that this  mixture crusher contains chemicals because is mixed with slag ,and kids became sick and also adults swollen legs,rushes all over the body ,and the other people take this black soil inside their shacks saying it will hold this spring water coming under the ground water in side their shacks.But they say they  sneeze a lot. People believe they are sick because of the soil.

A man says this dumping next to them brings him a tragedy that his kid of 4 years eat a poison to a dumping next to the shop called JokoTea,the kid was admitted at Sebokeng Hospital for about 4 days . He says this dumping which is are surround this squatter camps put their lives in dangers a lot ,they inhale bad smell ,flies ,from dumping to pit toilet, from there to the shacks.Also there is an open stream between the shacks community uses it as dumping sites ,because there is no services rendered.They ask for help to dose who have powers to take them out of the this place the is no future for them, if they can get proper land they will be more happy.