Sanitation

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

Villagers in Port St Johns drink from murky pond water

Ward councillor blames vandals, residents for community’s taps running dry

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Brief | 10 May 2019

Faeces spread in president’s path

Protests in Makhanda ahead of Ramaphosa’s Freedom Day rally

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News | 29 April 2019

Manzana toilets finally finished

The project began in October 2018

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Brief | 26 April 2019

Buy or expropriate the land, Marikana shack dwellers tell City

“In a big and beautiful city like Cape Town I don’t expect this kind of life”

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Brief | 24 April 2019

“All we want is to see the government collect the rubbish”

Uncollected garbage in refuse bins has lined the streets of Uitenhage for three weeks

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Brief | 9 April 2019

Bobani must deliver on his promises to PE shack dwellers, say protesters

Councillor promises that informal settlements in NU29 will have services in two weeks

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Brief | 1 April 2019

Give us water not toilets, say Newcastle residents

Manzana settlement resorts to illegal connections

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Brief | 22 March 2019

Frustrated by lack of services, shack dwellers block Baden Powell Drive

“The City will never help us until we protest.”

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News | 18 March 2019

Living beside an open sewer in Port Elizabeth

“Raw sewage pops out of the ground … It eventually overflows into the house”

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News | 18 March 2019

Cape Town shack dwellers march for RDP houses

“As long as each family has a tap, a toilet, and a box of electricity, we will be happy.”

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News | 15 March 2019

Janitors face losing battle in Khayelitsha as taps fail

City investigating low water pressure problem

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News | 12 March 2019