Dear Sir
The canal behind Fruit and Veg is a disgrace. It is filthy and it stinks. It has turned into a health hazard and that smack in the middle of our beautiful city, which we claim is so clean.

Commendably, the City of Windhoek provides employment to a number of people who sweep the streets, picking up other citizens not-so-washed deposits chucked out of car windows by less-caring, more reprehensible residents. The result is a laudable attempt to avoid a distressing mess.
Unfortunately, one target of the “throw away something” brigade has escaped attention!
Have you been behind the Brauhaus complex housing Fruit and Veg?
There is a necessary drainage canal there. Waiting for rain perhaps to wash away the droppings of less particular citizens. The rainfall season is surely pretty distant, but the accumulation of rubbish is other than distant: it is present and unsightly.
What the contributors to the stock of refuse to understand is that such accumulations attract all sorts of hazardous unpleasantries.
Rodents, pestilent insects like flies and cockroaches for a start but also lesser enemies like germs, provide a source of active displeasure. What we do not realise is that this disease trap can easily be the start of a serious epidemic especially when the rain starts and all the filth gets washed into the river which eventually spills into Goreangab.

The situation needs urgent attention.
Disgusted canal watcher
Windhoek