Sanitation
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
It took a court order, but municipality says it is cleaning up Makhanda at last
Makhanda’s by-laws and waste management system fail constitutional mandate, says judge
News | 15 September 2021
Cape Town child drowns in sewer after manhole left uncovered
Uncle blames City’s track record on sanitation in Khayelitsha
News | 30 August 2021