An inadequate sewerage system and a lack of access to sanitation are the root causes according to experts
By Liezl Human
News | 23 November 2021
“We live in a pigsty”
Brief | 15 November 2021
Yet the municipality claims the area is cleaned and serviced regularly
Brief | 10 November 2021
Unacceptable levels of E. coli persist in Zeekoevlei, Zandvlei, Rietvlei, and Milnerton lagoon
By Liezl Human
News | 8 November 2021
And a company that was paid R1.5 billion in tenders left households in Cofimvaba each with a pile of concrete slabs instead of toilets
News | 5 November 2021
Sewage spills are damaging local businesses and international tourism
News | 29 October 2021
The settlement of about 1,000 households has almost no basic services
News | 28 October 2021
Two billion people around the globe don’t have their waste collected, and only 10% of waste is recycled in South Africa.
Video | 27 October 2021
Informal dumping sites were meant to have been cleaned up weeks ago
Brief | 26 October 2021
Municipal supplied jojo tanks were last filled in August in Joe Slovo Extension
News | 18 October 2021
Community has little confidence left in the Limpopo education department which has to provide decent sanitation to nearly 1,500 schools
Brief | 15 October 2021
1,500 schools in the province still have pit toilets and some schools can’t afford to get them emptied
News | 15 October 2021
Eastern Cape government departments pass the buck and kill the project in bureaucracy
News | 29 September 2021
Residents block roads, complaining of blocked drains
News | 28 September 2021
Diepsloot in Johannesburg has become a dumping ground for rubbish. Parts of the township look unsightly. But two residents are turning a messy situation into a job-creation opportunity that removes rubbish.
Video | 17 September 2021
Makhanda’s by-laws and waste management system fail constitutional mandate, says judge
News | 15 September 2021