Sanitation
Families living in Tsolo forest say they won’t be voting on Monday
The settlement of about 1,000 households has almost no basic services
News | 28 October 2021
Local recyclers win global award
Two billion people around the globe don’t have their waste collected, and only 10% of waste is recycled in South Africa.
Video | 27 October 2021
Municipality in breach of court order to clear dumpsites
Informal dumping sites were meant to have been cleaned up weeks ago
Brief | 26 October 2021
Thousands struggle daily to get water in Mthatha
Municipal supplied jojo tanks were last filled in August in Joe Slovo Extension
News | 18 October 2021
Education department promises to fix “falling apart” school, but parents are sceptical
Community has little confidence left in the Limpopo education department which has to provide decent sanitation to nearly 1,500 schools
Brief | 15 October 2021
Stinking, broken, overflowing: these are the pit toilets Eastern Cape learners are expected to use at school
1,500 schools in the province still have pit toilets and some schools can’t afford to get them emptied
News | 15 October 2021
Failed RDP project leaves 71 households with toilet buildings but no houses
Eastern Cape government departments pass the buck and kill the project in bureaucracy
News | 29 September 2021
We are living in sewage, say Khayelitsha protesters
Residents block roads, complaining of blocked drains
News | 28 September 2021
Not such a dirty business: Two Diepsloot entrepreneurs create jobs from rubbish
Diepsloot in Johannesburg has become a dumping ground for rubbish. Parts of the township look unsightly. But two residents are turning a messy situation into a job-creation opportunity that removes rubbish.
Video | 17 September 2021