Sanitation
Alexandra’s residents clean up township
Government welcomes community forum’s effort
Brief | 15 December 2021
Eastern Cape villagers will have to wait 21 years for water, says municipality
OR Tambo Municipality says it will cost R10 billion
News | 15 December 2021
Women carry water buckets for kilometres, while water workers go unpaid
The CCMA this week awarded 143 Eastern Cape water operators R1.5 million for unpaid wages
News | 10 December 2021
Filthy Mthatha is a pigsty, say residents
Council has just approved a Waste Management Turnaround Plan, says municipality
News | 6 December 2021
Victoria Mxenge residents dream of a Christmas without the stench of raw sewage
Since 2019 the community has been battling with sewage spills and waste running down its streets
News | 6 December 2021
Pit latrines, bad roads and no tap water but Limpopo villagers have multi-million rand community halls
Huge amounts of money were spent in Zebediela on halls that are hardly used and are crumbling from neglect
News | 2 December 2021
Are informal settlement residents really to blame for Cape Town’s polluted vleis?
An inadequate sewerage system and a lack of access to sanitation are the root causes according to experts
By Liezl Human
News | 23 November 2021
There will be no funerals until the sewage system is fixed, residents threaten
“We live in a pigsty”
Brief | 15 November 2021
Overflowing toilets, piles of rubbish and empty water tanks plague Gqeberha shack dwellers
Yet the municipality claims the area is cleaned and serviced regularly
Brief | 10 November 2021