FILE PICTURE: A man shows the bucket system toilet outside his house in a township. Picture: Gallo Images / City Press / Herman Verwey A progress report on the bucket toilet eradication programme ...

Over three financial years, the Department of Water and Sanitation has spent less than 10% of its allocated budget on eradicating the bucket system, writes Henk Boshoff. Sanitation is dignity, ...

The use of the bucket toilet system remains a persistent problem in several municipalities across the country. Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) reported that bucket toilets remain a thorn in the ...

The bulk of Chitungwiza residents have been forced to resort to the bucket toilet system as council struggles to bring a permanent solution to sewage and water reticulaion problems affecting most ...

The Department of Water and Sanitation is committed to eradicating the bucket toilet system, it said on Friday. “The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) knows and accepts that access to dignified ...

Renting a place which has no bathroom or toilet has become a major hiccup for many people living in such situations. Despite living in underprivileged places, it is essential that one should have a ...

The Human Settlements Department says it'll eradicate the toilet bucket system in the Free State in March 2022. The Free State has half of all bucket toilets in the country. In 2006, government ...

The number of households using the bucket toilet system is on the increase, Statistician General Pali Lehohla said on Tuesday. "We had 73,413 still using the bucket system. That has increased to ...

Noting a recent report by Statistics South Africa, which recorded an increase in the number of bucket toilets in the Eastern Cape, provincial government said this week that it was studying the ...

Grahamstown — The antiquated bucket toilet system that still exists in parts of Grahamstown's townships will soon be replaced with water-borne sewage. Makana mayor Vumile Lwana said the municipality ...