Some areas highlighted as problematic
tic tank sewer system. The system does not separate water from the faeces and the tanks fill up quickly. With the lack of a maintenance plan from the municipality, waste becomes a breeding ground for diseases. North West:
One thousand residents of Popo Molefe informal settlement in Madibeng near Brits share six mobile toilets which are cleaned only twice a week.
At Shamburg, Mahikeng, 1 950 households share eight chemical toilets. Western Cape:
In Knysna ’ s Khayalethu township, 4 436 households have no access to sanitation.
There are unenclosed toilets in Delft. Eastern Cape:
Residents of Duncan Village, near East London, use the bucket toilet system when the formal sanitation system fails.
At Mnquma local municipality, a project that was headed by Mvula Trust did not finish its work and residents are without toilets. Northern Cape:
In the Joe Morolong local municipality, poor material is used for sanitation facilities and this results in high maintenance.
In the Kareenberg municipality, toilets were built on rocky land and filled up within three months, forcing residents to revert to the bucket system. Mpumalanga:
In Msholozi informal settlement in Mbombela, the majority of residents were evicted from farms. An estimated population of 8 000 to 10 000 still use the veld to relieve themselves. KwaZulu-Natal:
Informal settlements such as Bester and Quarry Road still need toilets because residents use fly toilets and open veld defecation. Free State:
In Viljoenskroon, some residents were provided with sanitation facilities and it is viewed that such allocation was done without a needs analysis and some households ended up with two flushing toilets.
Residents demolished their waterborne toilets inside their houses in the Moqhaka municipality to provide more space in their RDP houses.