Sanitation

Water restrictions hit Cape Town’s homeless

“We might stay on the streets, but we want to be clean”

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News | 28 February 2018

Why Dunoon has erupted

Roads have been blockaded and MyCiTi bus stations destroyed

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Feature | 16 February 2018

Addo residents sick of sewage spills

Municipality says system is ageing and blocked

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News | 15 February 2018

Rubbish piles up as workers protest

Angry former employees block garbage collection in Gauteng

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News | 7 February 2018

Raw sewage swamps houses in Kraaifontein

City said it would fix the problem last week

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News | 6 February 2018

Broken Motherwell drains fixed at last

Municipality sends a team after GroundUp story

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Brief | 29 January 2018

It’s already Day Zero in Siyahlala

Living with 20 litres of water a day

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Photo Essay | 26 January 2018

The Khayelitsha families who have to beg neighbours for toilets and electricity

Zusiphe Rwayi gets up at 3:30am to empty her bucket in the toilet of a nearby house

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News | 15 January 2018

Accused acquitted in high profile Khayelitsha murder case

Sinoxolo Mafevuka was murdered when she went to the toilet at night

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Law | 19 December 2017

Municipality spurns Addo residents’ call for upgrades

There are no public toilets and the roads are ridden with potholes

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News | 15 December 2017

City promises Mfuleni shack dwellers toilets and electricity in 2018

45 families in Ligwa beg to use neighbours’ toilets

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News | 1 December 2017

Day 11: Court hears of witness to Michael Komape’s death

Boy who drowned in toilet could have been found sooner

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Law | 28 November 2017

Day 10: Calls for help from Michael Komape’s school unanswered for years

Former principal’s testimony supports the family’s claim against the state

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Law | 27 November 2017

Day 9: State offered a pauper’s burial for Michael Komape

Department of Education contests that it could have fixed dilapidated toilets

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Law | 23 November 2017

Stink-up at Cape Flats school

“My stomach turns and I feel as if I’m about to vomit”

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News | 23 November 2017

Day 8: Education department had funds to fix toilet in which Michael Komape drowned

Expert witness gives damning testimony against Limpopo government

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Law | 22 November 2017