Sanitation

Frustrated Durban residents march over lack of basic services

“We are not being taken serious by the municipality”

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Brief | 5 October 2018

Overflowing sewage, no electricity, one tap and two toilets for over 300 residents

Residents of Duncan Village blame councillor

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News | 3 October 2018

Toilet topples over, trapping woman inside

A concrete public toilet in a Cape Town informal settlement fell over while a resident was using it

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Brief | 27 September 2018

“My house smells like a toilet”

City of Cape Town’s janitorial programme has left Siyahlala and other informal settlements unserviced for over a year

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Brief | 24 September 2018

Community stops sewage project for its schools

Pietermaritzburg residents say they want houses to get priority

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Brief | 19 September 2018

110 families in Mfuleni have no taps, toilets, electricity or even rubbish bin bags

“Government never told us where we should live after we had to move out”

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News | 18 September 2018

Women don’t want men using their toilets at taxi rank

Men’s toilet at Uitenhage taxi rank and bus terminus closed for months

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Brief | 17 September 2018

Dumpsite workers go on strike in Pietermaritzburg

Rubbish trucks dump garbage at entrance

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Brief | 13 September 2018

Hostel has one toilet for 39 households

“We are being undermined because we are staying in a hostel”

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Brief | 13 September 2018

No money for C-section in East London

Two toilets for 200 people in Duncan Village, and the municipality “doesn’t have any funds” to fix or instal more

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Brief | 30 August 2018

Shack dwellers too scared to shit

Access to safe toilets is a daily struggle for Island informal settlement residents

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News | 17 August 2018

Former mayor promised us houses, say Nyanga residents

Shack dwellers in Lotus Park emergency housing say they have been waiting since 2003

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News | 15 August 2018

Pit latrines not serviced for decades in Pietermaritzburg

Councillor says provision of sanitation is “in the pipeline”

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Brief | 9 August 2018

Bureaucracy leaves Khayelitsha toilets uncleaned since last year

Because janitors don’t have inoculations residents live with shit

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News | 6 August 2018

Two toilets for dozens of residents in Khayelitsha

City says shacks in Enkanini will need to be relocated to make space for more toilets

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News | 3 August 2018

Rats and raw sewage part of daily life in Dunoon

City to spend R5 million to combat blocked drains in the area

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News | 1 August 2018