The same court will this month begin a pre-trial hearing of the case against two cousins accused of the murder of Sinoxolo Mafevuka, a Khayelitsha teenager who was found strangled in a communal toilet near her home. The Western Cape High Court heard he had lured his victims to the bushes around the settlement before attacking them. Children cannot go alone but finding a parent or neighbour is not always possible for them,” he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.Įndlovisi made national headlines in 2012 when a local man was convicted of multiple counts of child rape and one count of murder between April 2010 and September 2011. Others have no access at all and have to use fields or bushes. “Many have to share inadequate temporary toilets like porta potties or chemical toilets and have to walk a long way without light. “Using a toilet in informal settlements is one of the most dangerous activities for residents and women and the children have the biggest problems,” said Axolile Notywala, of the Social Justice Coalition (SJO), a campaign group fighting for better sanitation in Cape Town’s informal settlements. However, the family live in an area where there are no easily accessible toilets at all - and according to the community, residents have literally been dying for a pee. 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. Mbango shares a one-room shack with her grandmother and two younger siblings in Endlovisi, a vast sprawl of more than 6,600 corrugated iron shacks perched precariously over the sand dunes on the southeastern edge of the South African city. They looked and looked for her for a long, long time. “It was a long time she was away and when the teachers asked me, I told them she went to the toilet. “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. Now 12, Mbango tells the story with an intense, unflinching gaze but her hands, fidgeting nervously as she speaks, show the trauma is still raw. Cape Town’s Khayelitsha township is seen in this picture taken October 4, 2016.
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