Workers at Aussenkehr grape companies still use buckets or the open veld to relieve themselves despite working for firms that have tens of millions in annual turnover. Over 60 percent of Namibians have poor access to water and sanitation facilities... One of the workers Taimi Kanyemba told New Era she accommodates up to seven people in her three-roomed shack made from reeds. “There is no toilet unless we dig it ourselves. Many people here just go to the bush,” she explained, adding that people are almost always sick with diarrhoeal diseases and stomach ailments...Workers have no access to clean drinking water and draw unpurified water directly from the Orange River...According to Karasburg Constituency Councillor Paulus Efraim the number of workers living in reed houses shoots up drastically during the peak of the harvesting season...[The] reed houses are prone to catching fire when people make fire to cook their food since they have no access to electricity...