Sanitation
Protesters force city councillors to walk through sewage
Kariega residents divert Mandela Day convoy
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
By Vincent Lali
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
By Chris Gilili
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
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
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
By Chris Gilili
Brief | 30 June 2023
Under water for two weeks: Cape Town’s Covid informal settlement
Residents fear disease could break out from the human waste in the water
News | 26 June 2023
Families here relieve themselves in plastic bags which they throw into the drains
In Lusaka informal settlement in Cape Town there are not enough toilets, drains are blocked, and there is a terrible stench
By Chris Gilili
News | 22 June 2023
Shack dwellers protest in support of Nelson Mandela Bay’s DA mayor
Mayor delivered over 300 chemical toilets that are cleaned every second day, a protester tells ANC representatives. “All you want to do is loot,” says another.
News | 25 May 2023