Dying for a pee: Cape Town’s slum residents battle for sanitation

By Paola Totaro CAPE TOWN (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Siphesihle Mbango was just six years old when her friend, Asenathi, begged her to go with her to the toilet then ran outside alone – and was never seen again. “We were at the crèche and she wanted me to go with her,” but I told her I was busy, I was playing, I didn't want to go and she went out by herself,” she said, at her home in a Cape Town slum. Part of Khayelitsha, one of the world's five biggest slums, Endlovini is home to an estimated 20,000 people who share just 380 or so communal toilets.

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Dying for a pee: Cape Town’s slum residents battle for sanitation