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| The protesters complained that the bucket toilets had not been emptied in three months |
Residents of Johannesburg’s Soweto township bared their asses in protest of the bucket toilet system — a holdover from
South Africa's
apartheid era in which the poor, predominantly black townships of the
city went without electricity and proper sanitation systems.
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| The angry
residents squatted in the road, pretending to relieve themselves and
some emptied full buckets of excrement on the road. |
Parts of many Johannesburg townships, as well as in the Eastern,
Northern and Western Cape provinces, have still not received a proper
sanitation system in the 20 years since the official end of apartheid in
1994.
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| The emptying of
portable flush toilet containers on the Provincial Legislature steps on
June 3 by a group of protesters led by ANC Youth League leader. |
The protesters were particularly incensed that their bucket toilets had not been emptied by city officials in three months.
In addition to barricading Chris Hani Road, a main thoroughfare, many
emptied their excrement into the street or pretended to relieve
themselves in roadside ditches.
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| A young boy has
died in a South African school after falling into an open pit toilet
and drowning. |
No protesters were arrested or injured, though they were dispersed with
tear gas and rubber bullets, according to the South African Press
Association (SAPA).
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| Cape Town 'poo
wars': Mass arrests in South Africa. This picture
shows an open air toilet in Rammulotsi township near Viljoenskroon |
"They [the protesters] were showing their bums by taking their trousers
down on the street... to show their anger with service delivery issues,"
police spokeswoman Kay Makhubela told
the SAPA.
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| South Africa's un-enclosed toilets deem unlawful |
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| Two festival-goers pass a roll of toilet paper between toilet cubicles | |
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