Africa-Press – Botswana. Mabutsane District Council has, through the universal waste collection system, increased the number of donkey carts engaged for waste collection from 24 to 40 across 17 villages.
However, the same programme is expected to resume in June in Mabutsane and Sese, owing to delayed procurement in the two villages.
Officially opening the full council session on Monday, council chairperson Mr Tuelo Zulu noted that the universal system had improved waste collection from 756 to 4 860 households, with further improvement expected once the remaining villages were incorporated.
He said that coupled with other avenues such as medium contractors for waste collection, the system is expected to curb improper waste management across the district.
“This universal collection service will discourage residents from dumping waste in undesignated open areas, reducing pollution and environmental degradation as it will ensure that waste is timely collected, transported and disposed safely,” he noted.
Additionally, he said that the council was embarking on maintenance of all waste disposal sites with the overall objective of improving cleanliness and access.
He said so far, they had completed maintenance of Mabutsane disposal site, while maintenance of the remaining two were expected to be complete before the end of September.
“The maintenance activities include pushing and re-directing disposed waste to an active disposal spot, construction of fire breakers, litter picking outside the perimeter fence as well as maintenance of the access roads,” he said.
On health issues, Mr Zulu noted his council was committed to improving health facilities across the district for better service delivery to communities.
He said, the district which shared the P10 million Constituency Community Programme (CCP) funding with Jwaneng, would channel its P5 million share towards the construction of a clinic in Sekoma, a health post in Kutuku as well as maintaining the clinic in Thankane.
Furthermore, he said running costs to operationalise machinery for maintaining roads would also be covered under the CCP.
“A provision has also been made to cater for running costs such as fuel, subsistence allowances and overtime to operationalise machinery plant that was procured through the same programme in the last financial year in order to maintain our roads,” he said.
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