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
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
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
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
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