Sanitation
Delays in cleaners’ contracts leave toilets dirty and blocked
Nearly 400 households at Kliprand informal settlement in Gqeberha share these toilets
News | 29 August 2022
Mobile showers for homeless people: “mother of water” bus launched
“I just cried underneath the water,” says homeless woman after first hot shower in ages
News | 26 August 2022
Iconic women’s housing project of the 1990s, today awash in sewage
Residents of Victoria Mxenge Housing Development have taken the City of Cape Town to the Ombudsman after three years of overflowing sewers
News | 22 August 2022
Free State drinking water polluted by sewage
Winburg one of many towns in the province with unsafe drinking water
News | 3 August 2022
Women volunteers clean up dumps in Delft after a dead body was found
“We want to stay in a clean environment”
By Vincent Lali
News | 29 July 2022
Pigs swim in the sewage outside my house, says protester
Gqeberha protesters block Old Uitenhage Road demanding changes to their living conditions
News | 28 July 2022
Dunoon residents hope years of “tip-toeing over sewage” will end
City of Cape Town is installing new pipes to alleviate “overburdened” sewerage system
Brief | 25 July 2022
Teachers and learners at this school use a field as a toilet
Fort Beaufort school has 570 learners and 15 teachers and toilets don’t work
Brief | 21 July 2022
Ramaphosa’s river clean-up boycotted
“I can’t hail Mandela Day when my children don’t have a future,” says Gqeberha resident
Brief | 19 July 2022