Bubb lives in a retirement home called Donovan McDonald in Florida, a City of Johannesburg facility that has 175 units. Bubb relies on crutches to move around her flat but she needs a wheelchair for longer distances. When GroundUp visited her on Friday morning, she struggled to make it to the door using her crutches.
“Now the nurse didn’t take enough blood the last time so she has to come back on May 6. I don’t know what’s going to happen because I really can’t afford it. I’m just a pensioner,” she said. The residents we spoke to said they have been complaining to the city’s operations manager from the housing department, Ethel Sereme, and the city’s acting executive director of housing, Anthony Ngcezula, since the lifts broke but nothing has happened.
Henry Jurius, who also lives in the home, said that residents had not only complained about the broken lifts. He said there was also a lack of security, maintenance, and illegal occupation of units in the village. “There have been cases where people have died in their units and were only found two or three days later because no one patrols to check on us,” he said.
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