Residents of Phase 3 in Settlers Place (Langa, Cape Town) continue to be plagued by repeated sewer manhole overflows, primarily along Vokwana Way, but also on the streets joining onto Vokwana Way. The Phase 3 residents have repeatedly reported the ongoing sewerage overflows on Vokwana Way to the City of Cape Town (CoCT) via phone calls, e-mails, and the e-Services Portal, including raising the matter directly with the Ward 51 councilor in Langa (Mr. Lwazi Phakade), and the pleas to have the sewerage manhole overflows resolved have fallen on deaf ears. City officials do log and come to attend to the numerous service requests which are reported (for years!), however, often within a matter of minutes or a few days, the sewerage overflows continue along Vokwana Way. A week does not go by where there is no sewerage overflow from the manholes along Vokwana Way.

This problem is so severe that houses nearby the overflowing manholes have sewerage spilling over into their private properties, and sometimes inside their homes. 

This unfavorable issue poses a health risk to the rate-paying residents of the area, including visitors and passers-by who frequent the area. Visitors who range from minors playing in the streets to school children who pass through the area on the way to and back from school.

The residents of Phase 3 Settlers Place in Langa demand that the City of Cape Town takes immediate and permanent action to resolve this problem, so as to avoid the health hazards this problem poses to everyone who passes through this area.