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Cathcart families left with full pit toilets for a year

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Community leader Buyisile Booi says toilets in Ndlovini have been blocked for more than a year. Photo: Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik
Residents in Ndlovini informal settlement in Cathcart, Eastern Cape, say their toilets have been full or blocked for more than a year. People relieve themselves in open fields. Some have dug their own pit toilets.
Ndlovini has more than 500 homes, mostly mud houses and shacks.
Amathole District Municipality (ADM) spokesperson Sisa Msiwa said the municipality installed 40 pour-flush pit toilets before 2021.
Community leader Buyisile Booi said each toilet was shared by five to seven families, but most residents were left out.
The toilets needed to be flushed by pouring water collected from communal taps, but taps were sometimes dry…

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