Unhealthy smoke that community creates

Evah Mokwena

Our people have a habit of burning waste like garbage or old things that are no longer valuable. In that case, the burning of things creates air pollution and that makes other people suffer, we already have mines that cause illnesses but yet still people burn garbage because of the poor Municipality’s failures by not keeping promises to collect dustbins and black plastics on time, the burning of things affects people’s lungs.

Many people are found with bronchitis, the illness can make you cough for weeks and have shortness of breath which is very sad because if you are not helped on time, you can end up being hospitalized. Our community does not know such information cause they are not being taught about the side effects of unhealthy smoke, it is so sad because some people have newborn babies and we all know how sensitive a baby is. In conclusion, we need the Municipality to get back on track and take the rubbish on time so that the community stops burning their waste because they are the ones making our community burn and end up being sick.
Let us live a better life.