Hon Deputy Minister, according to a 2009 Statistics SA household survey, it was found that as soon as the bucket toilet system was eliminated from the community because of the lack of alternatives, newly mushrooming communities started using them.
My question is: What measures are being put in place to prevent the mushrooming of the use of bucket toilets? Secondly, why is it not possible for the department to lay down a strict and mandatory timeframe by which the bucket system in all the municipalities will have been eradicated completely?
As for the rectification of shoddy work done in some of the RDP villages - I want to agree with you that you have answered this question before - it is still persisting in my municipality, where almost all the villages need rectification. The people have been waiting for so long and there is no movement towards rectifying the buildings. Is it realistic for the department to keep making all these unfulfilled promises? Thank you.