17/09/2025
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GRANNY’S TEARS TURN TO JOY
Eighty-one (81) year-old Matshediso Landela of Riverside in Nyakallong, Allanridge spent almost four years suffering from the devastating aftermath of the water rising from the nearest river in their area.
Staying alone in her crumbling home, she has battled not just rising waters, but many other challenges caused by that disaster. She lives in fear that her house, like others in the area, might collapse and swallow her world.
On Tuesday 16 September 2025, as she learnt that the Free State Premier MaQueen Letsoha-Mathae and Human Settlements MEC Saki Mokoena announced their relocation from this forsaken corner of Ward 19 of Nyakallong, Landela's voice broke with sobs of pure relief.
She says their misery began in 2022, when the nearby river's overflow turned their beautiful paradise into peril.
“When we settled here in 1986, Riverside was a quiet and beautiful area with a river where kids used to swim. This ended five years ago when floods seeped into our homes thus wreaking havoc. We started living in fear, every rain is a nightmare” she explained.
The nightmare she talks about introduces itself through the foul stench immediately when you arrive in the area. Most of the houses have cracked walls, damaged doors and the iron roofs have rusted.
Landela’s neighbour Anna Mabaso (66) added that the water brought snakes slithering through their doors at night, ferocious mosquitoes and sewage spilling.
“The pollution caused by the stink is the cause of all sorts of diseases such as asthma, sinusitis, and persistent coughing. We suffer from severe winter colds because of this water. The toll on us has been merciless,” Mabaso added.
The Department of Human Settlements, working with Matjhabeng local municipality identified a site where the families will be relocated by December.
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