'Four houses with one toilet' - Emfuleni informal settlement faces sanitation crisis

A breakdown over funding between the Gauteng government and the Emfuleni municipality has triggered a severe sanitation crisis at several informal settlements. For the past four months, mobile toilets at the Ramaphosa informal settlement in Vereeniging have not been cleaned or maintained. EWN visited the Ramaphosa informal settlement and compiled this package.

• Emfuleni municipality

Some informal settlements in Emfuleni Local Municipality are reeling from the collapse of service delivery, as they mark four months without their portable toilets being cleaned. Picture: Simphiwe Nkosi/Eyewitness News