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11 May 2011<\/span> Last updated at<\/span> 14:31 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

South Africa’s firebrand youth leader Julius Malema has hit out at officials for building open-air toilets.<\/p>\n

He was in a township run by the ANC in Free State province where there are some 1,600 toilets with cisterns and pipes but no surrounding wall.<\/p>\n

“Heads must roll,” said Mr Malema, head of the ANC Youth League. The league had taken an opposition party to court over a similar issue.<\/p>\n

The matter is proving embarrassing for all parties ahead of local elections.<\/p>\n

‘No dignity’<\/span><\/p>\n

The toilets can often be seen from several houses in a neighbourhood and are a delicate issue ahead of the elections on 18 May.<\/p>\n

The African National Congress (ANC) Youth League had taken the opposition Democratic Alliance to court over the issue in the Western Cape.<\/p>\n

Last month, a high court ruled that the DA-run municipality should provide shelters for about 1,300 open-air toilets in an area of Khayelitsha, outside Cape Town.<\/p>\n

Top ANC officials, including Mr Malema and Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula, toured Rammulotsi township in the central Free State province where residents showed them the toilets.<\/p>\n

The residents said the ANC-led council had told them they could not afford to erect enclosures, South Africa’s Mercury newspaper reports.<\/p>\n

“We condemn open toilets. It’s inhumane,” South Africa’s Times paper quotes Mr Mbalula as saying.<\/p>\n

“There’s no privacy, no humanity and no dignity.”<\/p>\n

A household survey published last week by Statistics South Africa<\/a>, said the percentage of houses in the country with no toilets or bucket toilets had decreased from 12.6% in 2002 to 5.9% in 2010.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n

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