Minister Sisulu has joined a long line of politicians and ministers promising to eradicate bucket toilets and then failing to deliver.
Under every president after Nelson Mandela there has been a promise that bucket toilets would relegated to the past. These promises have never been fulfilled.
Joleen Steyn Kotze, a senior research specialist in democracy, governance, and service delivery at the Human Sciences Research Council, said bucket toilets are a human rights issue, because using them strips people of their dignity. She added that until that “culture of a lack of accountability” is addressed, those people living in inhumane conditions — such as having to use bucket toilets — are going to continue doing so.
But later he says: “The target is a moving target as municipalities continue to provide households with bucket toilets as a form of sanitation.”that the department had identified dry toilets, costing R11500 each, and waterborne sanitation, at R15000 a toilet, as the solution.
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