Maggots cover the toilet seat of this pit latrine because the Makana municipality has not sent the truck to homes in Riebeek East to clean them for weeks. Photo: Loyiso Dyongman Residents of Riebeek East under the Makana Municipality say the government is neglecting them. Most of the pit latrines, built during apartheid, are not cleaned regularly. Most families are forced to relieve themselves in the bush near their homes because their toilets are overflowing and filled with maggots. The community of Riebeek East say the Makana Municipality is neglecting them by allowing them to live with filthy toilets.

https://www.groundup.org.za/article/pit-toilets-overflowing-and-filled-with-maggots-as-municipality-fails-to-send-cleaning-truck-for-weeks/

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