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South Africa Toilet Protest: Campaigners Reveal Rears
Police fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse protesters who bared their rears during a protest over a lack of proper toilets in South Africa.
Hundreds of residents barricaded a major road in Soweto protesting against bucket toilets.
During the apartheid era, residents in black townships were provided with an outside bucket instead of flush toilets like those in houses in white suburbs.
Protesters say the “bucket system” should no longer exist.
In years following the end of white minority rule in South Africa in 1994, a government programme had aimed to replace the bucket system in informal settlements by 2007.
The BBC’s Pumza Fihlani in Johannesburg says while protests about the lack of basic amenities are common in South Africa, this is a rare show of displeasure.
“They [the protesters] were showing their bums by taking their trousers down on the street… to show their anger with service delivery issues,” the South African Press Association (Sapa) quotes police spokeswoman Kay Makhubela as saying.
The protesters live in accommodation in Soweto that used to be a men-only residence during the apartheid era.
The angry residents squatted in the road, pretending to relieve themselves and some emptied full buckets of excrement on the road.
They also complained that their buckets had not been emptied by the authorities in three months, South Africa’s Star newspaper reports.
BBC
Posted by Kunda
on June 12, 2014. Filed under AROUND AFRICA.
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Babalawo
June 12, 2014 at 12:51 pm
Mulelya ubwali umuli tu cement no call of nature
Jason Nyirenda
June 12, 2014 at 1:48 pm
Let us not discuss South Africa. This is happening in our backyards. In Chipata the Asian (amwenye) do not provide toilets for their guards or maids who live within the premises of their bwanas. They are instead provided with plastic bags which they empty in the morning. This is happening with the full knowledge of OP, Zambia police, Chipata Municipal Council, Zambia Army. This was first learnt during the days of the hero, Benard Siwakwi. It has since continued. Where are we going? Can the council do something please?
TC
June 13, 2014 at 8:26 am
If this is truly happening in Chipata, then the council, or whoever is responsible needs to move and move very quick. You can’t have someone working for you and staying within your premises, and not provide proper sanitary facilities for them! who do they think they are?
Jason Nyirenda
June 12, 2014 at 3:11 pm
Babalawo, you have broken my ribs!
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