Thousands of people need toilets, taps and electricity in Khayelitsha
11 October 2018
About 100 shack dwellers marched to the Civic Centre in Cape Town this week to demand that the City of Cape Town provide basic services in New Monwabisi Park, Khayelitsha.
Community leader Masithini Mnqayi said the shack dwellers wanted flush toilets, additional water taps and electricity in the informal settlement, GroundUp reported.
"We want services that the City should have given us shortly after June last year, when we occupied the land. The right to basic services is enshrined in our Constitution, but the City violates it," he said.
Mnqayi said that without sanitation, women and children had to relieve themselves in the bush, where they were "easy prey for thugs who rob them". He said that without electricity, people used candles. Shack fires had already broken out three times.