By Nobuhle Ngema
Mrs Matsepo Mbatha from Katlehong, is part cleaning dustbins business,that she started to be with long time ago. The challenges that she encountered includes being undermined by the community.
“They never listen to us even when we try to reprimand them about throwing rubbish on the floor instead of the dustbin. It’s like they deem us less important and that’s just not fair, at the end of the day we’re also at work, we are human beings with feelings and want to be treated with the same respect we give regardless of what we do.”
What Mrs Matshepo does to remain calm is to try to work with them in peace. When the community speaks, she and her other colleagues keep quiet, because at the end of the day they are at work and getting paid for what they do. she said, “it’s something I’d do even if I wasn’t getting paid for it; that’s just how much I love my work.” She’s a lover of community work. Before her current work, she would walk around picking papers and putting them into plastics and wait for trucks to come and collect them.
“I support community work,” she said, “because it helps us to keep our communities clean.”
She’d appreciate it if the government could intervene and make them work under the municipality instead of contract, because it might end anytime and she won’t be able to support her children. Mrs Matshepo is trying as much as she can to budget money for her children since she heard on TV about the robot-machines that’ll take over their jobs.
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