Statistics SA report contains results of the 2020 non-financial census of municipalities. About 14 million households receive services from municipalities in one way or another. Sad to say that Free State and Eastern Cape provinces reported an increase in the provision of bucket toilets from 2019 to 2020. The Free State has 26 300 units while the Eastern Cape has 11 595 still using the bucket system.
A program to eradicate the buck system was launch under “Government Bucket Eradication Programme” with reversal of progress in the Free State when comparing 2019/2020. Government needed over R700 million to eradicate the system in the Free State and the Northern Cape.
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