Motorist recounts 'hell-road' ordeal

A DURBAN motorist spoke of her daily nightmare ride through vagrants and substance users along Che Guevara Road under the M4 southern freeway.

- ZAINUL DAWOOD

The motorist, who wished to remain anonymous, takes the M4 off-ramp to the Umbilo area, to drop off her husband at work. She said in the short period of time that she yields to observe traffic to her right, she notices the vagrancy problem was worsening.

She said that the traffic signals have been removed at the off-ramp from the M4, and in her opinion, this was done to prevent motorists from stopping and being surrounded by vagrants.

Municipal officials have been battling to contain the problem for more than a decade with the vagrants and substance users moving to different spots in the vicinity after cleanup operations.