The opposite bathrooms are both blocked, damaged or too filthy to apply. Resident zukiswa madolo says this has been the case on account that last yr.
Madolo says every morning and evening a queue of citizens paperwork at the one useful bathroom.
Queues begin at 05:00 and only thin out by using 08:00. Inside the morning, many in the queue are children who need to use the bathroom earlier than leaving for faculty.
"when the queue is too long, i persuade a number of the toilet users to go along with me to the bushes to relieve ourselves," says madolo.
A nearby land occupation has improved the call for for lavatories.
Resident mazola mthimkhulu said: "even before the land occupiers got here, the toilets had been too few as approximately two hundred citizens were the use of them… citizens from different regions where lavatories do not exist additionally experience the want to defecate, so that they smash our padlocks and advantage access into the bathrooms."
Residents get water from a close-by communal tap and use it to flush the toilet. But mthimkhulu said in june, the water deliver changed into off for approximately three weeks.
"citizens could not get water from the water tap positioned beside the toilets to flush or tidy them up, and the shit piled up," he said.
Mthimkhulu introduced that some residents were constructing their very own pit latrines because the communal toilets did not paintings.
Mayoral committee member for vicinity east, councillor anda ntsodo, stated the town of cape town blamed personal users for the water outage in june.