The terrain made it difficult for the municipality to provide toilets. The area is mountainous and experienced heavy rainfall, which caused flooding of the excavated pits. This delayed progress. There was also a challenge of land that belonged to the church. Negotiations between the council and the church were taking a long time to be concluded. The municipality indicated that there were certain corrupt municipal employees who were taking bribes from people to drain their pit latrines. The municipality was addressing this. The finalisation of EIAs took a long time to complete and this hampered the approval and progress of MIG projects.