Sanitation

300 homes share eight pit toilets

Shackdwellers in Polar Park and Tyampolo, East London, are not even on housing waiting lists

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News | 18 June 2019

Mother gave up her sick child because she lives in a shack without services

Nomaphelo Nomala says her only wish in life is to have her four-year-old daughter live with her

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News | 14 June 2019

Vehicles torched as Philippi East residents demand toilets

Siyangena settlement without water and toilets after more than a year, raising flags about sanitation and safety

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News | 13 June 2019

After three generations, Kliptown shack dwellers are still using communal toilets

“These toilets don’t reflect a democratic South Africa”

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News | 13 June 2019

Sewage floods PE streets

Residents say the problem started a year ago

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Brief | 12 June 2019

Filthy pit latrines and no water at Pietermaritzburg primary school

“Our children don’t deserve such conditions,” says parent.

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Brief | 11 June 2019

Residents told not to dump rubbish illegally … but municipality fails to collect their waste

For months Uitenhage residents have had infrequent garbage collection

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Brief | 10 June 2019

Durban lifts ban on fishing in its harbour

Port authority says use the port at your own risk because the water has not been declared fully safe

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Brief | 7 June 2019

Community clean up turns waste into arts and crafts

Clean My Space initiative in Khayelitsha has ballooned to 180 members

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Photo Essay | 7 June 2019

City has neglected sanitation in Alexandra, official testifies

Gauteng government gave municipality money between 2009 and 2011 to fix sewer “but if you go there now it’s as if nothing was ever done”

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News | 6 June 2019

Toilets dumped in informal settlement by mistake

Bonnytoun residents still waiting for better sanitation

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News | 3 June 2019

Limpopo’s forgotten schools and the Lottery’s expensive toilets

R10 million grant went to Gauteng company with no experience

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Feature | 24 May 2019

Burst drain goes unfixed for three weeks in Durban neighbourhood

Stagnant water causes terrible smell and increase in flies

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Brief | 16 May 2019

Parents close school, want principal fired

“Do they want a child to drown in one of those pit toilets?”

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News | 14 May 2019

Rubbish piles up on Diepsloot street

“We eat and breathe this bad smell everyday”

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Brief | 13 May 2019