Sanitation

One year after Hout Bay fire residents sit without basic services

Protesters in Imizamo Yethu demand electricity, sanitation and water

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News | 26 March 2018

Losing the war on waste in filthy Port Elizabeth suburb

Councillor says awareness campaign not happening in his ward where the place is strewn with rubbish

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Brief | 23 March 2018

Community successfully crowd funds R70k for toilets

A miracle that happened so quickly, says resident in Mzondi informal settlement

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Brief | 21 March 2018

Residents want sewerage system because pit toilets are full

Ward councillor says there will be sewers by 2019 latest

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Brief | 14 March 2018

Community tries crowd funding to get toilets

With a week till deadline on Thundafund, not a cent has been raised

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News | 13 March 2018

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