Deadly toilet trips for women in Cape Town's informal settlements

25 May 2016 - 12:59
By TANYA FARBER and APHIWE DEKLERK

Women in Cape Town's informal settlements are at high risk of rape for 15 minutes every day as they walk to and from toilets.Women in Cape Town's informal settlements are at high risk of rape for 15 minutes every day as they walk to and from toilets.The finding, by researchers at Yale University in the US, comes as an international monitoring organisation said the City of Cape Town's budget for installing toilets in informal settlements has been virtually unchanged for a decade, despite the fact...

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