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Government has vowed to banish the bucket system by year end, yet on January 1 there will remain many South Africans who have no choice but to use this foul and undignified system of sewage disposal.
Briefing the media at Parliament on Tuesday, Water Affairs Minister Lindiwe Hendricks said while her department was on track to rid "formal" settlements of the bucket system by December 31, there were still 15,3-million people without access to basic sanitation services.
The figure included people in rural areas, as well as those in "informal" settlements.
"When we talk about the 15,3-million people who don't have access to sanitation, we are counting people in the informal settlements as well as those in rural areas," she told journalists
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