Over the past three years, the project has cost government an average of close to a billion rand a year, with no progress made.
Lack of access to land meant poor sanitation services, especially in informal settlements such as Good Hope in Germiston, according to a human rights advocacy group.
This was despite billions of rands being spent by government on a project aimed at replacing a quarter of a million mobile bucket toilets.
For the past 24 years, the Good Hope informal settlement has been home to about 4 000 people who have yet to have access to sanitation outside of the bucket system, said 39-year-old Nomnikelo Sigenu, resident and Abahlali Basemjondolo organiser. Abahlali is an organisation advocating for shack dwellers.
