Topic: Sanitation

Children are dying from izinyoka electricity while Tongaat families wait to be housed

Four years after construction started, not a single house has been completed in R120-million Umbhayi project

By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik and Tsoanelo Sefoloko

News | 6 April 2023

Human waste litters the ground in Mountain View - and City of Tshwane has no plans to fix it anytime soon

The City says families living there will be moved when it finds land

By Warren Mabona

News | 5 April 2023

Cleaners in a Durban township say they use their own money to fix broken toilets

The eThekwini Municipality says it will investigate claims that janitors don’t have materials and that most of the toilets in the settlement are broken

By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik

Brief | 4 April 2023

No water, electricity or toilets for 280 families in Khayelitsha informal settlement

Residents say they have lived without basic services for three years

By Vincent Lali

News | 20 March 2023

Nearly 600 families at a temporary relocation area in Durban share eight toilets

eThekwini Municipality says its water and sanitation unit is busy with repairs

By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik and Tsoanelo Sefoloko

News | 17 March 2023

Children at Cape Town crèche caught in a dispute over rubbish

Councillor says rubbish container can’t be moved onto nearby private land; landowner says no one has ever asked him

By Mary-Anne Gontsana

News | 17 March 2023

Centurion protesters block streets over three-week water outage

“My house smells bad because I cannot flush the toilet or wash dishes” says resident

By Chris Gilili

Brief | 16 March 2023

Court challenge to SIU findings against Nelson Mandela Bay’s Covid spending fails

The Special Investigating Unit found irregularities in a R26.4-million toilet procurement during the national state of disaster

By Tania Broughton

Law | 15 March 2023

Clean newly formed settlements, demand shack dwellers

Only 16 of the 36 new occupations established following the outbreak of Covid have been recognised, says Khayelitsha subcouncil chairman

By Vincent Lali

Brief | 6 March 2023

Maggots have taken over the toilets in this neglected small town in Makana

Families in Riebeek East outside Makhanda are forced to relieve themselves in the bush

By Loyiso Dyongman

News | 21 February 2023

Plans to stop raw sewage being pumped into the sea off Cape Town

The City is considering treating sewage before releasing it through marine outfalls. But even then, “forever” chemicals will not be broken down

By Steve Kretzmann

News | 21 February 2023

Eastern Cape municipality goes to court to block protest

Protesters are complaining about sewage, rubbish collection and water supply

By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik

News | 15 February 2023

Protesters block major roads in Cape Town in cleaning contract dispute

Five arrested but not charged

By Vincent Lali

News | 15 February 2023

A day in the life of a Cape Town waste collector

Avuyile Masekwane’s job is difficult but she will be sorry when her contract ends

By Masixole Feni

Brief | 14 February 2023

Emfuleni municipality is a mess and piles of rubbish are just one sign of this

With only half its garbage truck fleet working, the municipality is unable to cope with refuse collection. But this is just one of many problems residents complain about.

By Chris Gilili

News | 13 February 2023

Corruption blamed for ten-year delay in service delivery in Tshwane settlement

Councillor says the area first has to be rezoned

By Chris Gilili

News | 7 February 2023