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7 toilets for 1,500 people in this Durban informal settlement

Boxwood Road residents in Kenville say broken toilets and leaking pipes have been left unrepaired for years by the eThekwini Municipality

Community leader Zakharia Buthelezi, who acts as the ablution block’s caretaker, says the toilets on Boxwood Road have not been maintained by the eThekwini Municipality for the past two years. He uses his own money to buy cleaning materials. Photos: Nokulunga Majola
Residents of the Boxwood Road informal settlement in Kenville, Durban, say they have been forced to use buckets to flush their communal toilets for the past two years. Water runs continuously through some toilets, but the flushing mechanisms do not work.
The settlement, established in 1998, is now home to about 1,500 people, according to community leaders. It has only one brick block of communal ablution facilities with four toilets for women, three for men, and two showers…

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