ID CAPE TOWN CALLS ON CITY TO INVESTIGATE "LUDICROUS" KHAYELITSHA TOILET "DEAL"
Councillor Herron submits motion to Housing Portfolio Committee
Brett Herron, ID Councillor and Spokesperson for the ID Caucus in the City of Cape Town, today submitted an urgent motion to the City's Housing Portfolio Committee, on which he serves as a member, proposing that the housing directorate provide a full report on the circumstances that led to the City installing the open air toilets in Khayelitsha that have led to community outrage and a complaint against the City to the Human Rights Commission.
According to media reports the City of Cape Town initially wanted to build one toilet per five households as a temporary measure, whilst state-subsidised houses were being built, where-after the toilets would be included in the houses.
The reports suggest that the community agreed with the City to enclose their own toilets with walls and roofing if the City provided one toilet per household. Herron, accompanied by fellow ID Councillors Cynthia Clayton and June Frans visited the area yesterday where they inspected the open air toilets and spoke to some of the residents.
‘We were shocked by the impact of a row of toilets completely in the open, outside the shacks and right next to the road - it would be impossible to use the toilets we saw, day or night, privately,' Mr Herron says.