Access to adequate sanitation remains a challenge for residents in Kimberley and other parts of the province The Northern Cape is among the provinces still plagued by inadequate sanitation and high numbers of bucket toilets.
Kimberly resident Simon Ngalibomvu says access to water and sanitation remains a huge challenge stating that a single toilet in the area is shared by over 50 people. This raises concerns about safety as well as the possibility of spreading infections due to the unsanitary conditions. “It has been more than 2 years now. The municipality is not collecting our buckets and we don’t know what the reason for that is” continues Simon, who adds that some residents have had to resort to making use of the open veld or digging holes in place of using the inadequate toilet amenities.Spokesperson for the Department of Water and Sanitation, Sputnik Ratau, says the department is speeding up its programme to eradicate bucket toilets in the province.
“The number of bucket toilets still to be eradicated in both the free state and the northern cape is between 12 000 and 14 000 in total, and that is how many we are looking to eradicate in this financial year. the department is intervening by working together with municipalities and ensuring that water pipes will be supplied” added Ratau.
This undertaking by the Department comes amid a status report on reservoirs which it released earlier in May that noted a reduction in water levels in the Northern Cape from 121.8% to 112.1% as well as the province under-performing on the Green Drop Certification audit report which in April identified both the Northern Cape and Free State provinces’ municipal wastewater treatment systems as being in a critical state.
It's disgusting but it's ok cause it's voters who are degraded by using the bucket system not politicians! They have Gucci toilets thanks to bucket system voters 💩
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Whilst it's disgusting to hear this, one must also consider the fact that some so called revolutionary party continually encourage people to to occupy land and they make no effort to assist those communities
An apartheid invention still in use nearly thirty years after its official demise? Eradication of this dehumanizing system should have been number one priority for the ANC-led government. So shameful it's still in existence!
One can take that census with a pinch of salt..
While money is looted. In this day and age, we still have bucket loos ..