The newly built latrines in Minky’s community are essential to keeping New Thulwane as hygienic as possible for its residents. ‘We are happy if it rains, but the water collects everything that was in the forest and takes it down to the river … and we drink it again,’ says Minky. ‘The pit latrines are very important because we are trying to clean the whole community. We don’t want people to go to the forest to wee there. We want everyone to wee in the protected, well-built toilets, so that there is no infection coming into the new clean water system that we will be having’