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Honorary Master
http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/article1058740.ece/ANC-didnt-know-about-toilets--Mantashe
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http://www.citypress.co.za/Politics/News/ANCs-open-toilet-shame-20100711
2010-07-11 13:00
Gwede - you knew about it nine months ago!
The ANC "didn't know" about 1600 toilets in a Free State municipality which have been left without enclosures for the past eight years, secretary general Gwede Mantashe said on Monday.
"We didn't know about open toilets," he told journalists at as press briefing at Luthuli House in Johannesburg.
He added that the ANC would take serious action against this.
The toilets are located in Rammulotsi, near Viljoenskroon, in the ANC-run Moqhaka municipality.
"It should not happen, it cannot happen," he said.
However -
http://www.citypress.co.za/Politics/News/ANCs-open-toilet-shame-20100711
2010-07-11 13:00
The ANC is facing its own open- toilet scandal a few days after *Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs *Minister Sicelo Shiceka said it was a Cape Town phenomenon which would never happen *under ANC *governance.
Now, a new toilet saga is *bubbling in Viljoenskroon’s *Rammulotsi township in the ANC-run Moqhaka municipality, which includes much of northern Free State and is based in the town of Kroonstad.
When visiting Rammulotsi last week, City Press’ sister paper Rapport encountered one open toilet after another. Some of the toilets were built as long ago as 2001 but were never enclosed by the municipality.
When asked for comment on the situation in Moqhaka *municipality, Shiceka refused to be drawn into the matter, stating that *national building norms for *sanitation provision do not *include open toilets.
The minister merely stated that norms and standards for *acceptable sanitary provisions must be developed urgently
Gwede - you knew about it nine months ago!