Toilet wars become an election feature

By Khanyisa Tabata
13 May 2011

With local government elections just days away, the Gauteng local government and housing department yesterday started delivering the first batch of chemical toilets to the Sicelo Shiceka informal settlement in Midvaal.

MEC Humphrey Mmemezi promised to provide the toilets in the hotly contested DA-led municipality after finding during a walk-about in the area that residents had to rely on open pit toilets. The ANC has vowed to win back the municipality.

Meanwhile, the ANC has vowed stern action if the mayor of the Maqhaka municipality had benefitted from the Viljoenskroon open toilet debacle. The ANC in the

Free State has admitted that mayor Mantebu Mokgosi had informed them that her husband's company was a sub-contractor in the project.

Provincial ANC secretary Sibongile Besani says they had decided to handle the matter on a political and not on an individual level. Observers say the so-called toilet wars have become a feature of the election.

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