South Africa: PE Families Live With Burst Sewer Pipe for Three Years

Two families in Port Elizabeth are still waiting for the municipality to fix a sewer pipe which burst outside their houses more than three years ago.

Pumla Shaik, 54, and her neighbour Mbuyiselo Vena, 41, of Bugcisa street in Wells Estate say they spend most of their time inside their houses to avoid the smell, the flies and the mosquitoes.

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