Timeslive reports that garbage collection problems are set to continue in parts of Johannesburg after protesters on Thursday set a depot alight.  

In a joint statement‚ Michael Sun‚ the MMC for public safety‚ and Nico de Jager‚ the MMC for environment and infrastructure services‚ said the protestors started the fire at Pikitup’s Central Camp depot near Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital.  The protesters outnumbered the Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD) officers who had been deployed to maintain peace and forced their way into the depot.  Emergency services contained and extinguished the fire, but serious damage was done to infrastructure at the depot.  Garbage collection has been disrupted in some parts of the city over the past four weeks.  A Pikitup representative said:  “We wish to place on record that these service delivery disruptions are not perpetrated nor perpetuated by Pikitup’s own staff‚ rather‚ they are by those people who allegedly did not meet the criteria for insourcing.”

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