Sanitation

500 families wait for drains to be emptied

Pietermaritzburg municipality admits to maintenance problem

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News | 1 March 2019

Wastewater audit missing as countrywide water shortage looms

After reports were sent to cabinet, water test results have not been released for five years

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Feature | 25 February 2019

Toilets overflow and taps run dry in Enkanini

Residents vow to continue protesting until the problem is fixed

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News | 21 February 2019

City fails to publish water quality tests for two years

Public cannot assess effects of sewage disposal in sea

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News | 11 February 2019

Is Zandvliet poisoning Capetonians?

A nearby community is convinced it is, but test results are inconclusive

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Science | 1 February 2019

Activist leader Axolile Notywala arrested

Residents of informal settlements demand sanitation in protest aimed at Mayor Dan Plato

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News | 31 January 2019

Protesters threaten to empty toilets onto road

Msunduzi municipality doesn’t listen, say residents

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News | 30 January 2019

School gets toilets after GroundUp report

Pretoria company donates 16 dry toilets to Pietermaritzburg school

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Brief | 30 January 2019

Holes for pit toilets but no toilets

Manzana villagers still waiting for last year’s promise to be kept

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Brief | 28 January 2019

The daily struggle of living in a wheelchair in a shack

“The simplest things, like brushing your teeth, require work”

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News | 14 December 2018

Backyarders complain of City’s incomplete toilet installation

“What’s the use – they give a toilet but it doesn’t work,” says Parkwood resident

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News | 14 December 2018

Shack dwellers ask City to share cost of janitors

Toilets donated to community of Siyangena are kept clean by residents

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News | 11 December 2018

Fire victims at Overcome Heights want electricity and water restored

It has been a month since a fire displaced 800 people

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Brief | 3 December 2018

“The so-called future of this country is dying”

Learners battle government to make their schools clean and safe

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News | 30 November 2018

Westville residents threaten further protests

Port Elizabeth informal settlement divided on relocation and development

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News | 29 November 2018

“My shack is a breeding ground for rats” says Duncan Village resident

Piles of garbage in the area have not been collected since September

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Brief | 26 November 2018