South Africa’s firebrand youth leader Julius Malema has hit out at officials for building open-air toilets

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. The toilets can often be seen from several houses in the area. Top ANC officials, including Malema and Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula, toured Rammulotsi township in the central Free State province where residents showed them the toilets. The residents said that the ANC-led council had told them that they could not afford to erect enclosures.