Sanitation

Pit toilets from the 1980s are still in use at this Eastern Cape school

Parents at Bhetshwana Primary, which has 200 learners, say the school has begged the education department for toilets for decades

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Brief | 12 June 2025

Families were promised RDP homes. Instead they were left for 15 years without services

Eastern Cape Department of Human Settlements says construction will happen later this year

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News | 9 June 2025

2,000 households in Katlehong without electricity and clean toilets

Residents demand municipality fulfil its promises

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Brief | 2 June 2025

Cape Town highway blocked over access to water and toilets

People living along the N2 near Mfuleni want the City to include them in its budget

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Brief | 19 May 2025

Crime hits sanitation services in Khayelitsha

City of Cape Town teams can only come out when security is available

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News | 3 April 2025

Today is the deadline for ending pit latrines in schools. Here’s how government has done

Minister says 93% of identified pit toilets eradicated

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News | 31 March 2025

Limpopo Education Department set to miss pit toilets deadline

Some Rivubye High School learners prefer to use bushes

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News | 27 March 2025

Families charged R5 to use mobile toilets in Dunoon

Residents of informal settlement say they are forced to pay to use stolen toilets

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Brief | 18 March 2025

Raw sewage is running into the Kruger park from Limpopo town

Phalaborwa residents lay criminal charges against local municipalities to try to end their sewerage problems

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News | 13 March 2025

Gugulethu’s filthy rat-infested canal

City says the road maintenance team only cleans the canal for stormwater purposes not to address illegal dumping

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Brief | 13 February 2025

400 Eastern Cape families dumped in wetland without services for 13 years

Dutywa residents were promised houses and told relocation was only temporary by Mbashe Local Municipality

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News | 27 January 2025

Plagued by illegal dumping, residents clean up filthy suburb

Rubbish has not been collected for months in some parts of Wallacedene

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Brief | 24 January 2025

900 families’ portable toilets not cleaned for over a month in Khayelitsha

City says community disputes over recruitment of workers disrupted the service

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Brief | 24 January 2025

Protesters block N2 for hours at Grabouw

They demanded sanitation and water

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Brief | 15 January 2025

Cape Town neighbourhood is buried in rubbish

The City will use the public works programme to employ cleaners after a contractor withdrew due to extortion threats

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Brief | 20 December 2024