Parliament hears of elders forced to defecate in plastic packets, as water crisis persists ahead of polls
MK Party MP Visvin Reddy told the committee that elderly residents in the province were defecating in plastic packets and asking their grandchildren to throw the packets into the bushes because there was no sanitation.
Other issues raised during the briefing Beyond the exchange over sanitation in the North West, the committee also received updates on a package treatment plant at Hammanskraal now supplying 50 megalitres of water a day, ongoing bulk water connections in Giyani, and difficulties linking new water schemes in KwaZulu-Natal to the electricity grid.
Parliament’s water and sanitation portfolio committee heard troubling accounts on Tuesday of communities in the North West going without basic sanitation.
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