Where are the refuse collectors?

Garbage in residential areas in the city had started piling up during the strike, due to an absence of some Gaborone City Council (GCC) workers. Public service workers are back at work now, however, this has not translated to a clean city. Garbage disposal has now descended into a free-for-all where all residents do what suits them best.

A resident of Extension 10 told Mmegi in an interview that during the strike, her household garbage was collected only once, and before it was collected this past Sunday, it had been accumulating for three weeks. In other areas, residents whose household litter has accumulated travel from where they live to residential complexes such as the Block 5 Botswana Housing Corporation (BHC) flats to dump their garbage in the large garbage skips.