‘We are told that someone will come to fix the problem, but nothing ever happens,” said 80-year-old Maboyisi Maneli, a resident at the City of Johannesburg-owned Annie Burger Old Age Home in Crown Gardens, Johannesburg.The state of 80-year-old resident Maboyisi Maneli’s bathroom at the city-owned Annie Burger Old Age Home in Johannesburg South. His bedroom and bathroom do not have a light and his broken bathroom window has not been repaired. Shards of glass can be seen on the floor.
80-year-old resident Maboyisi Maneli’s leaking roof and broken light in his bedroom at city-owned Annie Burger Old Age Home. After identifying trends of complaints, Johannesburg’slaunched an “own-instance investigation” of municipal retirement homes in Johannesburg. “Our visit to the Annie Burger Old Age Home highlights society’s disposition towards the protection of the inherent dignity of older persons in general,” said Gumede after the visit.
Van Vreden said he hasn’t had a geyser for five years. He said young people living illegally in the retirement village stole his jewellery box which contained a gold watch and his tools. “It’s got every facet of stealing. They broke into a guy’s house who was deaf — because they know he’s deaf, he can’t hear a thing — they stole his TV from his cabinet in the lounge.”The mini-transformers have been tampered with and there are accusations of residents bypassing electricity boxes to avoid paying for electricity — increasing the cost of other residents’ bills.
The ceiling of resident Aubrey Crowder has been leaking since last October, but when a contractor finally came a few weeks ago, they said it wasn’t a big enough issue to fix. The Eeufees Oord Old Age Home in Joburg faces issues of inadequate security, drug abuse, structural problems, electricity billing issues and illegal occupants.
A contractor procured from the City of Joburg’s Human Settlements Department fixes streetlights on the premises of the Eeufees Oord Old Age Home on the day of the Joburg office of the Ombudsman’s stakeholder engagement, 26 August 2022.
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