Human Waste Litters the Ground in Mountain View - and City of Tshwane Has No Plans... GroundUp_News: SouthAfrica
The settlement was registered by the municipality in 2017.The municipality says it will rehouse the families there when suitable land has been found.Human waste litters the ground in Mountain View informal settlement in Mamelodi, Tshwane. The settlement, built on rocky land between two housing developments, has hardly any toilets, no electricity, and no water.
Mountain View is situated in the middle of Mamelodi Ext 17 with RDP houses, and Mahube Valley Ext 1. Both have tarred streets, running water and electricity, and flush toilets inside the houses. In Mountain View, families live in shacks, some built on a steep rocky slope. Residents told GroundUp that they are so desperate to leave that they are even prepared to stay in another informal settlement.
Florence Shirindza said she and her four children battle to get around in the rocky area. Where she lives, there are three flush toilets built by residents outside the shacks, connected by residents to the sewerage system in Ext 17."Other people relieve themselves wherever they can on the ground, during the night. There is always a bad stench of human waste outside my shack.
Shirindza said some people have built pit toilets in their small yards. Others often request permission to use the toilets of residents of Ext 17.Get the latest in African news delivered straight to your inbox
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