The partially decomposed carcass of a dog is lying on one of hundreds of abandoned chairs and other equipment standing in the inside courtyard of the Pretoria-North magistrates court, all covered in bird poo. Nobody knows how it got there and nobody seems to care! After all, there are new tenders and contracts to plunder…
Lawyers and the public have no choice but to close their eyes and noses when walking past the mess. The courtyard is almost fully packed with old chairs, boxes, computer screens and old telephones and so are the passages. The untidy mess has been there for weeks and is the result of old furniture and stock being thrown out, but nobody seems to known what to do with the old equipment.
The manager of this particular court did not want to comment on the situation when approached by Rapport newspaper.
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