Sanitation

Jobless residents clean up rubbish dumps in Nyanga East

Volunteers work from 9am to 1pm on weekdays

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Brief | 8 August 2023

After a month of no refuse collection, Dunoon residents march to municipal offices

Subcouncil 3 manager says area is too volatile to render services

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Brief | 7 August 2023

Khayelitsha families rally to help bury three children who died after playing on dump site

City of Cape Town and SAPS are investigating the deaths

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News | 25 July 2023

Protesters force city councillors to walk through sewage

Kariega residents divert Mandela Day convoy

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News | 24 July 2023

Over 1,000 shack dwellers protest: “We are tired of living in squalor”

City of Cape Town accused of “persistent failure to collect rubbish ” in informal settlements

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News | 21 July 2023

Soweto informal settlement abandoned by government

After 33 years, just five working toilets and four working taps for hundreds of households in Nomzamo Park

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News | 21 July 2023

Furious residents confront Kariega officials after child drowns in sewage

“You only come to us when our children die,” deputy mayor is told

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Brief | 17 July 2023

Makhanda commuters ‘use the bush’ because taxi rank toilets have been closed for years

Councillor says she has asked the municipality for more public toilets in town

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Brief | 30 June 2023

Rubbish in Delft overwhelms City of Cape Town response

City says it spends R300-million a year cleaning up illegal dumps but can’t make headway without community support

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Brief | 30 June 2023