[A Thread]
On the 25th May this year during one of our familiarisation visits, we came across this community with a serious sanitation problem. The residents of Havana Extension 7 have toilets with buckets that are to be emptied by the City of Windhoek (CoW)...

...on a bi-monthly basis. But they have not been emptied by CoW since 2017. Attempts to have CoW to empty the buckets proved to be futile over the years and the residents have been emptying them themselves and at times disposing the human faeces in the riverbeds and putting...

...the community at risk of contracting Hepatitis E and other poor hygiene related diseases.
We then assisted the community in getting their burning concern to the much needed audience of the relevant authorities.

We did a follow up yesterday to check on progress made, and a...

...certain SWAPO district leader attempted to chase us away but we were not moved because the residents of that community wanted us to remain and have the issue resolved.

Today (08/06/2020) the Mayor of CoW together with the Deputy Mayor addressed the community members and...

...assured them that these buckets of faeces will be picked up by Wednesday this week (10/06/2020), this is after residents threatened to take and empty those buckets at Municipality office if they fail to come take them to be emptied.

Ours remain to purely restore the...

...dignity of Samora Machel
Constituency residents. Therefore, anyone in our Constituency experiencing similar problems, kindly contact us at 081 481 7883 so that we can have them resolved together.

Samora Machel Constituency
08/06/2020

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